Robert R Best’s zombie-themed Memorial Trilogy has been making waves in the indie horror scene for the last several years. Both Lakewood Memorial and Ashton Memorial were nominated for Dead Letter Awards and Buyzombie.com said the series “… can be placed amongst the classics of the zombie genre.” (You can read our full review here.) Readers are eagerly awaiting the concluding novel, World Memorial, to be released.

I am thrilled to announce that Lakewood Memorial, the first installment of the trilogy, will be available as a free online serial novel. Starting on May seventh, 2012, a chapter from the acclaimed novel will be posted for free reading. A chapter will be posted each Monday until the novel is complete sometime in December. Read it for free while you can at http://lakewoodmemorial.blogspot.com. (Or if it wets your appetite enough you can buy the full novel at any time directly from Amazon.)

The small town of Lakewood has been overrun by the walking dead. In a single night, the world has descended into a madness of biting teeth and a sickness that kills but does not kill. Caught at the center of it is Angie Land, young single mother and nurse’s aide at Lakewood Memorial Hospital. She and a handful of others are lucky enough to survive the initial assault, but how long will they last? And more importantly to Angie, how long will her kids – waiting at home – survive?