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FOREVER ZOMBIE:
A Collection of
Undead Guy Tales
Due: Fall
2009
Preview: Read one of the zombie tales from
Forever Zombie: A
Collection of Undead Guy Tales right now! Check out
Every
Death You Take, just one of the many tales in this anthology.
British Fantasy Award–winner Williams describes his
virtuoso, grotesque nightmare of a book as a "paean to the novels I
grew up on in the 1980s." It's an unnecessary observation: readers
will immediately recognize the influence of Stephen King, Clive
Barker, Peter Straub and Ramsey Campbell. Playing on humanity's
deepest fears and taboos, Williams plunges the reader deep into a
hellish near-future where creatures banished five centuries ago rise
again to lay eggs in the few people they don't consume alive, turning
London into a cross between hive and abattoir. Caught up in the grisly
madness are photographer Bo Mulvey, who goes looking for excitement
and gets more than he bargained for; Sarah Hickman and her beautiful,
disturbed daughter, Claire, on the run from a hit man with an
amputation fetish; and Gyorsi Salavaria, a cannibalistic child killer
determined to become the mate of the invaders' new queen. Williams
(Use Once, Then Destroy) is so good at what he does that he probably
shouldn't be allowed to do it anymore, for the sake of everyone's
sanity.
