The air lay heavy and unmoving around him. James felt as though he was pushing his way through a massive and ponderous revolving door with each step. The woods were preternaturally quiet — no animal stirred and no breeze rustled the vegetation. He slowly made his way to the edge of the river. The gurgling grew louder, but James couldn't see anything disturbing the mud laden waters."What the hell is going on here?" James gasped."Hell doesn't have anything to do with it, F.B.I....

Saddle up to take on the weird west in the Horror on the Range anthology!Headlined by tales from Undertaker Books' resident Western yarn-spinners, D.L. Winchester and C.M. Saunders, this anthology will bring new adventures from Aggie and Dylan Decker!But that's not all!Eleven other scribes join the fun, taking you on a horrific adventure all over tarnation and back again, facing varmints both human and monstrous. Zombies? Offal Monsters? Rattlesnakes? They're all wi...

What scares you?Let's consider fear for a moment…Fear strikes in many ways. It titillates and terrifies. It can be prosaic or sublime. It's grim, gritty, seedy, and dark. Fear can be subtle — something that bubbles just under the surface of our perception. It can linger for years, or effervesce before the page is turned. Fear transforms, mutates and evolves. It can be silent and gentleor thundering and vicious. And, in large enough doses, fear can kill. But, there are...

What if future criminals played games of skill for their freedom? Would spellcasters dare use magic to skew chance in their favor? What if aliens judged us based on the games we play? Can a dying woman literally cheat Death?Games are about more than winning and losing. They’re about risk and reward, strategy and blind fortune, our need to win and our fear of being outplayed. And when magic and science infuse a game, the stakes can be of cosmic importance. Each move could decide lif...

Seven long years have passed. The undead ebb and flow like a river along a corpse-strewn bank, stinking up the place, yeah, but mostly leaving it empty and forage-able for those they left behind. Hank and Juan were still alive, so were most of the people they started the apocalypse with. Family now, one and all. Things had changed since the outbreak, they found a new place to hide, fought off countless hordes led by the 'super' zombies and settled down into their new lives. Just one last l...

A long road trip begins as Nick seeks to find his father, who reportedly died 7 years earlier. There have been sightings of his dad since that time, all centered in Florida. Telecommunications are not what they used to be, so Nick has to make the trip blind, aided by others who want to see him achieve his goal. Nick naively assumes the factions traveling with him are helping him to be nice, but along the way he learns more about on how the new world works. As for the other factions they al...

Life in Southern Florida three years after the zombie Outbreak isn't anything like it used to be. A few survivors were pushed by the hordes of zombies out into the Florida Keys and have survived so far by fending off all opponents whether they were super zombies, Cuban's or even other humans enhanced in the long struggle with the undead. Now Elina and her friend Gus are thrown into the thick of the Miami conflict as the living there are caught between two armies vying for control of the pe...

Dora suddenly has more to worry about than getting to the doctor's office. Smashing her car, she finds herself stranded on a day when all hell is breaking loose in Kansas City. Going on is not an option, walking two miles, in this heat? This is not something she does, not ever. Where are those overpaid cops when you need a hand? They always seemed to be there when Dora was driving forty-five in a twenty mile an hour school zone, but now when the flesh eating undead are after her, they are ...

When the zombie apocalypse comes, many stories will be written about those that survived, the horrors they faced, and possibly how they saved humanity. The truth is, many more, a great many more, will die. Here are the stories of some of those who have fallen: the innocent, the ignorant, the indecent. These short stories highlight the plight, and fate, of the common man.These stories are written with 'Romero' style zombies and all end…badly for the protagonist. There are fourteen s...

Nick is all alone, a situation he has no one to blame for but himself. Six years ago his father had left him and his sister, vowing to return to them…and he never had. But Bill had; remote and sullen at losing his best friend, Bill made little effort to raise his best friend's son, isolating himself with his new job: Being a soldier. Unhappy and left to his own devices Nick found himself in trouble at 16 and the lifetime exemption from the draft for his father's sacrifice was all too quick...

The doorman, an elderly white haired man, had been dead, lying in the doorway preventing the door from closing and locking. The dead had killed him but not turned him. Or at least he had not turned yet. What a lot you learn in three days, she told herself now, as she remembered. They had dug in, shifted him outside the door. Bear had dragged him to the gutter as she had held the door. They had no sooner let the door close than he had sat up in the gutter of the street."Bear! He's o...

The camp was a makeshift place off an old logging trail. It was dry under the pines where they had set up camp, but the logging road had flooded over, the water had receded, and now the road was a quagmire of mud steaming in the early morning sun.They had encountered no major obstacles on the way in. Joel knew the way. The road was cracked in a few places, flooded in a few others, but only a few inches of water. The major stuff had held off until they had arrived and settled in.