by David Moody
He was in charge now.
Get the dead looking in the opposite direction, then get anyone still left alive over here and into the building. I’ll start with Jessica in the phone box and see where we go from there.
The sun was beginning to rise.
Christmas Eve. The big day was tomorrow.
Howard was looking forward to Christmas, and there was no damn way he was going to let it be his last.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
ADAM BAKER
darkoutpost.blogspot.co.uk
Was born in the west of England in 1969. He is the son of a priest. He studied Theology and Philosophy in London. He has worked as a gravedigger, a mortuary attendant, a short order cook in a New York diner, and fixed slot machines in an Atlantic City casino. He is currently employed as a cinema projectionist. He was also a close neighbour of the notorious British serial killer Fred West.
RICH HAWKINS
richwhawkins.blogspot.co.uk
Hails from deep in the West Country, where a childhood of science fiction and horror films set him on the path to writing his own stories. He credits his love of horror and all things weird to his first viewing of John Carpenter’s THE THING. His debut novel THE LAST PLAGUE was nominated for a British Fantasy Award for Best Horror Novel in 2015. He currently lives in Salisbury, Wiltshire, with his wife, their daughter and their pet dog Molly. They keep him sane. Mostly.
IAIN ROB WRIGHT
www.iainrobwright.com
Comes from the English town of Redditch, where he worked for many years as a mobile telephone salesman. After publishing his debut novel, THE FINAL WINTER, in 2011 to great success, he quit his job and became a full time writer. He has now published more than a dozen novels, and in 2013 he co-wrote a book with bestselling author J.A.Konrath. The most important things in his life are his wife, his children, and his fans. His work is currently being adapted for graphic novels, audio books, and foreign audiences. He’s an active member of the Horror Writer’s Association and a massive animal lover.
MARK TUFO
www.marktufo.com
Was born in Boston Massachusetts. He attended UMASS Amherst where he obtained a BA and later joined the US Marine Corp. He was stationed in Parris Island SC, Twenty Nine Palms CA and Kaneohe Bay Hawaii. After his tour he went into the Human Resources field with a worldwide financial institution and has gone back to college at CTU to complete his masters. He wrote the first instalment of the INDIAN HILL trilogy in college. It sat in his garage until July 2009 when he published it on Kindle. He has since written the internationally acclaimed ZOMBIE FALLOUT series and is working on more zombie books. He lives in Maine with his wife, three kids and two English bulldogs.
GARY SLAYMAKER
slaycorp.com
Has been a television & radio presenter since 1988, and has worked for BBC One Wales, BBC Radio Wales, BBC Radio Cymru, BBC Radio 5 Live, S4C, and Channel 5 amongst others. He has also performed as a stand-up comedian since 1992, working in both Welsh and English.
He presented his own show (cleverly called ‘Slaymaker’) for over 6 years and 12 series on S4C, Wales’ fourth channel where he would channel his inner geek on the subjects of film, video games, music and interviewing celebrities such as Rhys Ifans, Vinnie Jones, and rugby deity, Gareth Edwards. More recently he was presentled and head scriptwriter on the satirical radio news quiz ‘Bwletîn’ on Radio Cymru for 5 years.
JAMES PLUMB
madsciencefilms.com
Is the co-writer and director of “Night of the Living Dead: Resurrection”, “Silent Night, Bloody Night: The Homecoming” & “Kerb Crawlers”. His films have terrorised cinemas and supermarket shelves from Northern America, Germany to deepest, darkest Wales (where life is cheap!). He is most interested in that territory where the ordinary meets the extraordinary and the two blur.
ANDRE DUZA
www.houseofduza.com
Is an actor, screenwriter, and a leading member of the Bizarro movement in contemporary literary fiction. His novels include WZMB, King Dollar, Technicolor Terrorists, Necro Sex Machine, Jesus Freaks, Dead Bitch Army, and the graphic novel, Hollow-Eyed Mary. He is the co-author of Son of a Bitch co-written with Wrath James White, and Outer Light, a graphic novel sequel to a Hugo Award Winning episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation that was penned by television writer/producer Morgan Gendel. He has also contributed to such collections and anthologies as Book of Lists: Horror alongside the likes of Stephen King, Edgar Wright and Eli Roth.
SEAN T. PAGE
www.ministryofzombies.com
Is an office drone by day but by night wears his underpants on the outside of his trousers and delves into the murky world of zombie fiction. His Haynes Zombie Survival Manual is a best-seller in the UK and he has published numerous books and short stories, mostly about dead stuff and some of which are good, some crap. He’s done cool stuff like TV documentaries on the end of the world for Channel 5 and lectures to university students on why zombie fiction is so popular. But, he’s also done some rubbish things as well, like spending years on a ‘choose your own adventure’ zombie tale which never saw the light of day. In 2013, he spent 6 days alone sealed in a Cold War bunker. And, yes, there were plenty of mannequins around.
SCOTT MCGLASSON
www.facebook.com/authorscottmcglasson
Is a former member of the US Air Force. He spent nearly a decade as a rock radio personality before getting a “real” job in logistics. He spends what little free time he has herding cats managing the Space Opera and Space Opera: Writers groups on Facebook. Flash fiction contests for SO:W have been judged by such sci-fi luminaries as Neal Asher, David Farland, and Peter F Hamilton. Scott currently lives in St Louis, Missouri USA with his wife, Monica, daughters Evelyn and Emily, and son, Trip.
MATT SHAW
www.mattshawpublications.co.uk
Is the published author of over 190 stories. Shaw was first published in 2004 with his horror novel HAPPY EVER AFTER - the first of his books to reach the number one slot on Amazon and the first of his books to use his trademark style of narrating the stories through the first person perspective. An extremely prolific writer, Matt Shaw he is currently directing his first feature film - MONSTER.
WAYNE SIMMONS
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Belfast born, he penned reviews and interviews for several online zines before publication of his debut novel in 2008. Wayne’s work has since been published in the UK, Austria, Germany, Spain, Turkey and North America. A regular contributor to Skin Deep Tattoo Magazine, he currently lives in Wales with his ghoulfriend and a Jack Russell terrier called Dita.
DAVID MOODY
www.davidmoody.net
A pioneer of independent publishing, DAVID MOODY first released HATER in 2006, and without an agent, succeeded in selling the film rights for the novel to Mark Johnson (producer, Breaking Bad) and Guillermo Del Toro (director, The Shape of Water, Pan's Labyrinth). Moody's seminal zombie novel AUTUMN was made into an (admittedly terrible) movie starring Dexter Fletcher and David Carradine. He has a unhealthy fascination with the end of the world and likes to write books about ordinary folks going through absolute hell. With the publication of a new series of Hater stories, Moody is poised to further his reputation as a writer of suspense-laced SF/horror, and "farther out" genre books of all description.