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Updates coming soon!

October 25th, 2009

I have not posted in the longest time, but have read a few zombie books in that time at least. Going to be updating the whole site shortly, a new look (mostly) and going to make the book list alot more friendly. Plus I have a few to add to it from authors who have emailed me. So do come back often.

Dead Meat free Serial Novel

June 14th, 2009

Ill be reading this in the next few days, I love these free serial novels. This was posted by Undeadanthology over at undeadgames.com

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Dead Meat by Chris & Patrick Williams is an free serial novel sponsored by Permuted Press about the infestation of zombies in the small town of River’s Edge. Join Permuted and the Williams brothers for and terrifying trip through the end of the world!

Dead Meat chronicles the journey of two survivors–Gavin and Benny–as the town of River’s Edge falls to pieces around them. The destruction of River’s Edge begins with an influx of rodents and “rabies” cases leading to a quarantine of the city. Those who remain in town are attacked and fed upon by packs of the living dead. Labeling the infected residents “bees” for their tendency to travel in swarms, Gavin and Benny must do their best to survive the chaos in River’s Edge while making their way north in search of sanctuary. No one knows what waits outside River’s Edge, but Gavin and Benny know that to survive, they must escape.

Click here to start the journey at the beginning!

Huge Sale at Permuted Press

April 28th, 2009

Select titles–including Day by Day Armageddon, our #1 bestseller of 2008–are now available for only $8.25 each in the official Permuted Press Amazon Shop!  That’s over over 40% off!  Click here or the banner below to start buying.

Pretty good deal overall, Im going to make sure to pick up a few of these for myself to add to my collection.

Rhodes Travelled

April 26th, 2009

This is a very interesting blog that Breaden51 from Undeadgames found. It’s very similiar to Raptormans Day by Day Armageddon. The Author Jim, has been posting pretty regularly, and it’s a pretty good read so far. Wonder if he will put it into a book format eventually. You can all check out the blog I’m talking about here http://hikingguy73.wordpress.com/

Twilight of the dead Free Online!

April 20th, 2009

I have been horrible at updating the site lately. Been working on Zombiegames.net (finished the new design and layout :) ) and now am working on the new and improved Undeadgames so I haven’t had as much time as I wanted to read. BUT I will now be able to read Twilight of the Dead on my free time in between tasks. Check it for free here http://twilightofthedead.blogspot.com/

Enjoy!

Zombie Road Kill

February 12th, 2009

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This looks pretty interesting http://www.roadkillzoo.com/ its a graphic novel from Novaris Entertainment. The art looks fantastic. I can’t speek to much for the story however I’ve only read the sneak preview which starts out pretty interesting. Imagine that deer or squirrel you hit on the road coming back to life for payback! There are 6 issues in all so far, and you can buy them all together in one paperback. Im going to get my copy next week to do a review on them.

Plague Zone

January 15th, 2009

Been a bit busy lately with other zombie related things, in addition to fix’s and updates on the site I have currently been reading The Book of More Flesh, so I can review it later on this site. I don’t want to leave anyone hanging though so I thought of something to post.

You know you’ve read too many zombie books when you start forgetting them…. I read Plague Zone about a year ago. I just remembered when looking through StumbleUpon for sites tagged zombie books. Plague Zone is another online serialized novel by David Wellington, and you can read it here.

This story was much different than the stories in the Monster series. The zombies were your standard slow lumbering stupid gonna eat you type. Just how I like them :). It was hard to stop reading this story, as there were many parts packed with suspense. It doesn’t take long for events to start unfolding the first zombie experience is pretty early in the story.

The story goes as most zombie stories do. A plague begins, and crawls its way through the United States. However this one isn’t covering someone looking for a cure, or the person who will bring an end to all the humans left. The story focuses on one man, who wants to permanently kill one zombie. Being a husband and a father it was pretty easy for me to relate, it was also very hard for me to think of what I would do and think if I were put in a similar situation. Overall the story was good. It wasn’t as good as the Monster Island trilogy but its still definitely worth a read. I really was not satisfied with the end, it almost felt like things needed to be wrapped up pretty fast, as if the number 60 had to be the last chapter.

The main thing that makes it hard to judge harshly is the fact its free for anyone to read. Again you can check the story out here.

Rating 3/5

THE RAGE PLAGUE by Anthony Giangregorio now available!

January 2nd, 2009

Rage Plague

Got a post from Undeadanthology over at Undeadgames.com about this new book.

The Rage Plague–Anthony Giangregorio’s tale of a world gone insane–is now available for purchase from many stores including:

* Amazon
* Permuted Press

An unknown virus spreads across the globe, turning ordinary people into ravenous killers. Only a small population proves to be immune, but most quickly fall prey to the infected. Isolated on the rooftop of a school near the outskirts of Chicago, Bill Thompson and a small band of survivors come to the frightening realization that, without food or water, they will perish quickly under the hot sun. Some wish to migrate to a safer, more plentiful refuge, but the school is surrounded by rampaging murderers. Without a plan, Bill and his group don’t stand a chance. Their only hope lies in their one advantage over the infected: their ability to think. Not far away, a leader rises amongst the psychos, a man stricken by the virus yet still intelligent and in control. His need to destroy humankind becomes an obsession, and he rallies an army of killers to seek out and destroy all who remain unchanged. Now Bill and his fellow survivors not only need a safe haven, they must also escape legions of hungry infected. But the virus and its hosts will find them, no matter where they hide, because even sanctuary has its perils.

“Giangregorio’s writing is like a lightning strike to the head. Intensely paced and loaded with thrills, Rage Plague is a bone-chilling ride of terror that’ll keep you up late into the night.”
–A.P. Fuchs, author of BLOOD OF THE DEAD

Sounds like its a good read, guess I’ll buy it and review it :)

List of free zombie books and fiction

December 24th, 2008

Maybe some of you in this economic downturn don’t have the funds to go out and buy loads of zombie books, so I figured I would start this section off by compiling a list of all the free zombie books currently available to the public.

Monster Island I actually posted a review of this book on this site, and you can read it in its entirety from David Wellingtons site. This book is also for sale from a number of retailers including Amazon. I highly recommend it.

If you enjoy Monster Island, then you will definitely want to read the next installment in the series (which is actually a prequel) Monster Nation . Of course if you want to actually own the book you can buy it from Amazon, among other retailers.

Hopefully you enjoyed the first two in the series, if so you will be compelled to read the third and last book in the trilogy, Monster Planet. And like the two before it, it is available through Amazon.com

While compiling this list it seems as if many of the books these days are hard to come by online. The Morningstar Saga’s first book (Plague of the Dead)actually used to be free, and I was a little disapointed to see it isn’t the case anymore. However while browsing Z.A. Rechts site I did find a list of free zombie fiction hosted here

Of course I have to mention my own site which has a small collection of zombie fiction. The section is inoperable at the moment but you can see a few of the stories here

I’m sure most of you reading this are aware of these novels and think I may have forgotten one, before I get emails on it, Autumn is actually not free anymore :( I highly recommend it as I was able to read it when it was available as a PDF.

If any of you find any more for free let me know I would love to add them to the book list! (which is still under construction)

The Morningstar Strain Thunder and Ashes

December 21st, 2008

This book is the second in the Morningstar Strain series by Z.A. Reicht. I read the first one two or three years ago online (while working on the help desk shh..) So I was a bit rusty on the story. Jumped onto http://www.themorningstarsaga.com to get a quick refresher before I started reading.

If you remember both groups were on their way to Omaha to get to the facility in order to start working on some sort of vaccine. The book starts off pretty much where the last one left off, with Stiles evading the infected in the first chapter. You are then taken between each group from chapter to chapter following their progress.

First Ill go into what I didn’t like about the book. It felt almost too comfortable to me as I read I felt like I pretty much knew who the author wouldn’t kill off so when they were in tough situations I didn’t worry. The ending while I wont spoil it for you, it just didn’t seem realistic to me. It was one of those “Of Course!” moments. Overall I felt the book didn’t have the same suspense as the first story did (imagining thousands upon thousands of infected coming at you in a desert is hard to top), but that’s not to say that it didn’t have of its own moments.

I did like the feel that the country was utterly destroyed. It really helps with the overall atmosphere of the story. There is also a sense of trepidation when the survivors do happen to wander into a city. I really like the climatic part of the story when the survivors (or whats left of them) do reach Omaha. That kept me pretty entertained, plus the fact that I live in Omaha made it pretty interesting.

Overall it was a good book, helped to stave off the boredom during the trip. Also I received the book as a gift for attending Omaha’s zombie walk, which was awesome considering I have been wanting to read this book for a while now.

Overall Id have to give the book a 3.5/5