Brian Keeping was a young closeted gay mechanic who lived in Ashbrooke, one of the most un-PC homophobic, backward little towns in mid-west America. One day the traveling circus came to town and he, along with his two best friends, thought maybe a trip to the circus would be a welcome diversion from the monotony of their sleepy little town, but to their horror everything went terribly wrong.

Dead ColdWhen a wealthy man with incurable brain cancer spends millions to have himself frozen in cryogenic stasis until a cure can be found, he gets more than he bargain for. Unbeknownst to him, sixteen years into his cryo-sleep the cryogenics company "Eternal Slumber" secretly decides to substitute a vital chemical used in the freezing process with a cheap and untested alternative to lower the company's overhead. This decision ends up killing the first patient they test it on, onl...

When a wealthy man with an incurable brain tumor spends millions to have himself frozen in cryogenic stasis until a cure can be found, he gets more than he bargained for. Unbeknownst to him, sixteen years into his cryo-sleep the cryogenics company "Eternal Slumber" secretly decides to substitute a vital chemical used in the freezing process with a cheap and untested alternative to lower the company's overhead. This decision ends up killing the first patient they test it on, only to have he...

"A witty and unexpected take on the zombie genre" in which half-human, half-zombie fights to end the war between the living and the dead (Charlaine Harris, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse novels).Subtitled "A Zombie Memoir," Brains looks at America's favorite walking-dead flesh-eaters from an audaciously original and deliciously gruesome new perspective. Debut author Robin Becker blazes new ground with this story of former coll...

Experience the zombie apocalypse with this illustrated survivor's journal full of chilling tales of terror.The year is 2012, and what starts as a pervasive and inexplicable illness ends up as a zombie infestation that devastates the world's population. Taking the form of a biologist's illustrated journal found in the aftermath of the attack, this pulse-pounding, suspenseful tale of zombie apocalypse follows the narrator as he flees from city to countryside and heads...

The apocalypse has hit Monument, Colorado, and Jake Simonsen, captain of the football team, is caught in the middle of it. A series of escalating disasters, beginning with a monster hailstorm and ending with a terrible chemical weapons spill that affects people differently depending on blood type, has torn the world as he knows it apart. Now Jake has to decide how to pick up the pieces."Jake and the Other Girl," an original story by Emmy Laybourne acquired for Tor.com by Holly West,...

In the summer of 2012 in the month of June the Romero comet passed the earth leaving behind a red haze through parts of the world. Some people where concerned that this haze might be harmful but others did not. Soon afterwards there where violent attacks on animals, and humans as well. The bodies found torn apart, people coming into area hospitals with bite wounds and soon falling ill to an unknown infection. But in San Antonio, Texas during an early heat wave the effects of the red haze w...

Lily Hamilton has only one thing on her mind: survival. Unexpectedly, her world turns upside down and fills itself with the kind of monsters from a horror flick. She's doing just fine on her own, but four people she believed to be dead suddenly turn up on her doorstep.For a while, things seem to be almost-normal. But when Lily is uprooted from everything she's ever known, she has to rely on the skills her dad taught her when she was a kid.But has everything be...

2017 Silver Birch Express Award Honour Book • 2017 Hackmatack Children’s Choice Book Award — Shortlisted • 2017 Diamond Willow Award — ShortlistedThe second instalment in a series of scary tall tales from acclaimed children’s novelist Philippa Dowding.I will never leave this car, the back seat reeks of everything my little brother has ever eaten, and that thing is still out there …Myles and his family have been driving for four day...

When life gives you lemons, kill zombies — turns out lemon juice neutralizes the undead.After a failed attempt at running away, former best friends Nathan and Misty return home expecting to face angry parents. Instead, they discover the military has destroyed the bridges out of their rural town and everyone's fled—except a small horde of the living dead. The stress of flesh-eating zombies may be more than their already strained relationship can handle.Even with the help of ...

Even with the right plans and preparation, change and adaptation are necessary for the best zombie apocalypse survivor. This is the blog of a successful survivor that follows his experiences, successes and failures, as he hides away in his attic during the initial stages of the zombie plague to his eventual success in dealing with the hordes. It serves as a loose intro to other stories of the Zombie Apocalypse Survivor short stories and sketches by Jason Thornton.It is written as a ...

Jane Finch is trapped in a bunker with a zombie. Grey saved her life, but she's got no idea how to manage him in an enclosed space. Especially when he's built like a superhero and very hungry…The challenge of sharing close quarters with a zombie gets even more complicated when Jane tells her parents about her new arrangement—and they've got a surprise for her, too. Staying in the bunker isn't an option, because the Americans are threatening to nuke the entire area. Grey is regainin...