Urban Gothic (38 page)

“Yeah,” Leo said. “That’s true.”

“You know what they say,” Dookie chuckled. “Shit happens.”

Then the girl standing next to Leo stiffened and began to scream.

She was still shrieking when the police and paramedics arrived.

BRIAN KEENE is the author of over twenty-five books, including
Darkness on the Edge of Town, Urban Gothic, Castaways
,
Kill Whitey
,
Dark Hollow
,
Dead Sea, Ghoul
and
The Rising
. He also writes comic books such as
The Last Zombie, Doom Patrol
and
Dead of Night: Devil Slayer
. His work has been translated into German, Spanish, Polish, Italian, French and Taiwanese. Several of his novels and stories have been optioned for film, one of which,
The Ties That Bind
, premiered on DVD in 2009 as a critically-acclaimed independent short. Keene’s work has been praised in such diverse places as
The New York Times
, The History Channel, The Howard Stern Show, CNN.com,
Publisher’s Weekly, Fangoria Magazine
, and
Rue Morgue Magazine
. Keene lives in Central Pennsylvania. You can communicate with him online at www.briankeene.com, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/pages/Brian-Keene/189077221397

or on Twitter at www.twitter.com/BrianKeene

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“Zombies and Shit” Carlton Mellick III
-
Battle Royale
meets
Return of the Living Dead
in this post-apocalyptic action adventure.
Twenty people wake to find themselves in a boarded-up building in the middle of the zombie wasteland. They soon realize they have been chosen as contestants on a popular reality show called Zombie Survival. Each contestant is given a backpack of supplies and a unique weapon. Their goal: be the first to make it through the zombie-plagued city to the pick-up zone alive.
A campy, trashy, punk rock gore fest.

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“Apeshit” Carlton Mellick III -
Friday the 13th meets Visitor Q. Six hipster teens go to a cabin in the woods inhabited by a deformed killer. An incredibly fucked-up parody of B-horror movies with a bizarro slant

“
The new gold standard in unstoppable fetus-fucking killfreakomania … Genuine all-meat hardcore horror meets unadulterated Bizarro brainwarp strangeness. The results are beyond jaw-dropping, and fill me with pure, unforgivable joy.
” - John Skipp

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“Super Fetus” Adam Pepper -
Try to abort this fetus and he’ll kick your ass!

“
The story of a self-aware fetus whose morally bankrupt mother is desperately trying to abort him. This darkly humorous novella will surely appall and upset a sizable percentage of people who read it … In-your-face, allegorical social commentary.
”

- BarnesandNoble.com

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“The Book of a Thousand Sins” Wrath James White
- Welcome to a world of Zombie nymphomaniacs, psychopathic deities, voodoo surgery, and murderous priests. Where mutilation sex clubs are in vogue and torture machines are sex toys. No one makes it out alive – not even God himself.

“If Wrath James White doesn’t make you cringe, you must be riding in the wrong end of a hearse.”

-Jack Ketchum