So in case you didn’t know by now we are huge fans of Peter Clines. His Ex-Heroes series is pretty top notch so I’m excited to tell you about his newest release! It’s a collection of 4 short stories that all take place in the same zombie overrun world and it sounds like a total blast. It’s currently only available on the Kindle (though I’m sure will be open to more formats shortly.) Peter can make very creative world so this should be a great collection to pick up!

The latest release from Permuted Press bestseller Peter Clines (Ex-Heroes, Ex-Patriots), THE JUNKIE QUATRAIN, is now available! A collection of 4 interlocking short stories, it’s available exclusively (for a time) on Amazon Kindle at $2.99 or free for Amazon Prime members.

Six months ago, the world ended.

The Baugh Contagion swept across the planet. Its victims were left twitching, adrenalized cannibals that quickly became know as Junkies. Civilization crumbled as people created isolated safe havens to hide from the infected… and the possibly-infected.

Now, as society nears a tipping point, lives will intersect and intertwine across two days in a desolate city. THE JUNKIE QUATRAIN is four tales of survival, and four types of post-apocalypse story. Because the end of the world means different things for different people. Loss. Opportunity. Hope. Or maybe just another day on the job.

Available on Kindle.

When it comes to new things free tends to trump having to pay anything. Fortunately the author of The Zombie’s Bride, Thea Isis Gregory, agreed with that statement and has released her ebook for free for all to enjoy!

The Zombie’s Bride is a gory horror story showing the consequences of ignoring reason and going too far. (This is not a romance story.)

Julia, a demanding and petulant bride-to-be, discovers that her fiance’s bachelor party had been attacked the night before their wedding. She insists the wedding go on as planned, regardless of the consequences.

Will this still be her special day, or will the wedding feast feature blushing bride?

Available from Amazon.

The Undead Situation by: Eloise J. Knapp

So when the world goes crazy one might often ask what do the crazy do in the new world? The Undead Situation attempts to show us what a 100% sociopath would end up doing if the humanity he had no use for suddenly became a little less human.

The dead are rising. People are dying. Civilization is collapsing.
When the end finally occurred, everything about it was cinematic. The dead came back and ate people, civilization collapsed, and no one could do a thing.

But Cyrus V. Sinclair couldn’t care less; he’s a sociopath.

Amidst the chaos, Cyrus sits back and contemplates the gore stained streets and screams of his fellow man with little more emotion than one of the walking corpses. With his cache of guns and MREs, he rather likes the idea of hunkering down in his Seattle apartment while the world ends outside.

All is well and good for Cyrus… until he meets up with Gabe, a belligerent annoyance, and the other inconvenient survivors who cramp his style and force him to re-evaluate his outlook on life. It’s Armageddon, and things will definitely get messy.

“As people turn into monsters, a monster learns how to be human…. The zombie apocalypse meets its match in sociopathic survivalist Cyrus V. Sinclair, the antihero of Eloise J. Knapp’s THE UNDEAD SITUATION.” —Craig DiLouie, author of THE INFECTION

“An action packed trip through the ‘zombocalypse’ with a unique character as our guide. Eloise J. Knapp has delivered very strong entry to the genre and I can’t wait to see what she comes up with next. Highly recommended.” —Timothy W. Long, author of AMONG THE LIVING

“A roller coaster ride through terrifying and sometimes disastrous events… Knapp has managed to introduce some fresh new scenarios into her zombie tale with some unexpected turns.” —ZombiesDrule.com

Available at Amazon

Zombie Pride, Zombie Short Story Is Now Free

So tell me if you enjoy reading, what is better then a zombie book? How about a FREE zombie book, ebook that is! Thea Gregory has just released her latest novel, Zombie Pride, for free to zombie lovers.

(Of course if you are biased against anyone who is gay you probably won’t want to read this one. If the name didn’t give away why that is, the description will.)

Pastor Rex Parsons is a man on a mission. He has charged himself with saving souls at his area’s first local Gay Pride parade. However, the mayhem he finds is very different from what he expected. Will Rex find that the enemy of his enemy isn’t necessarily his friend?

It is available for free on Smashwords and Kindle (Which at the time of this post is not free but is queued for change apparently.)

[via: Thea's Adventures in Writing and Zombie Research.]

Ex-Patriots

Ex-Patriots is the sequel to Ex-Heroes and let me tell you right now I’ve been waiting for this one to come out. Ex-Heroes is a GREAT novel and one that any fan of zombies AND super heroes should have already picked up. Honestly if you haven’t I suggest going out and ordering a copy right now!

It’s been two years since the world ended. Two years since the dead rose and the plague of ex-humanity decimated mankind. For most of that time, the superhero called St. George, formerly known to the world as the Mighty Dragon, has protected the people of Los Angeles at their film studio-turned-fortress, The Mount. Together with his fellow heroes—Cerberus, Zzzap, and Stealth—he’s tried to give the survivors hope and something like a real life. But the swollen population of the Mount is becoming harder and harder to sustain, and the heroes are feeling the pressure.

Hope arrives in the form of a United States Army battalion, based in a complex a few hundred miles away in Arizona. This is not just any base, however. The men and women of Project Krypton are super-soldiers, designed and created before the outbreak to be better, stronger, and faster than normal humans. They want the heroes and all the people of the Mount to rejoin America and have normal lives again.

But can the military be trusted? And is there even a country left to rejoin? There is a secret at the heart of Project Krypton, and those behind it have an awesome power that will help them keep that secret hidden. The power of Freedom.

Available at Amazon.

Dead Inside: Do Not Enter: Notes from the Zombie Apocalypse

Lost Zombies is an institution in itself being one of the few zombie themed social networks and directed towards doing content creation. All in all it’s pretty damn cool. One of their first pieces of content coming out is Dead Inside: Do Not Enter: Notes from the Zombie Apocalypse which has finally been released, telling short stories of the apocalypse. We (surprisingly) haven’t had much interaction with Lost Zombies however we did interview Skot, creator of Lost Zombies.

If you are looking for a fun zombie anthology to pickup this one should be flying off the shelves so make sure to grab a copy quick!

Post Secret meets World War Z in this chilling vision of the fallout following a global zombie pandemic. A gradual mutation of a virulent strain of super flu gives rise to millions of the undead, who quickly overwhelm treatment facilities and swarm cities around the world, leaving survivors on their own against a legion of the infected. This chilling story is told through the scraps of paper, scrawled signs, and cryptic markers left by survivors as they struggle to stay alive and find those they ve lost in a world overrun by zombies. Through these found notes and messages letters to loved ones, journal fragments, confessions, and warnings readers can uncover the story of what went wrong, and come to know the individual voices of those affected by the zombie crisis.

Available at Amazon.

Roads Less Traveled: The Plan by: C. Dulaney

It’s very common for zombie enthusiasts to have a plan of what they are going to do if an outbreak were to actually occur. A lot of them are pretty damn well thought out and a lot of them are border line moronic. So what happens to people with plans when zombies actually do exist? Well here’s a book that wants to follow one person who has such a plan.

Ask yourself this: If the dead rise tomorrow, are you ready? Do you have a plan?
The dead rose, and the living quickly realized that Hollywood-style tactics were the quickest way to find yourself one of the walking dead.

Kasey, a strong-willed loner from West Virginia, and Ben, a college student from Pennsylvania, have shared an unlikely friendship over the years. And their bond is stretched to its limits when society collapses under a tide of zombies. But Kasey has something she likes to call The Zombie Plan. While Ben sets out for West Virginia, taking with him a ragtag group of friends, Kasey prepares for their long-term stand against the deadheads at her home in the mountains.

But every plan has its weaknesses, and the youths are unaware that a freight train of tragedy is bearing down on them all. In the darkness that follows, Kasey’s Plan slowly unravels: friends lost, family taken, their stronghold reduced to ashes.

Available on Amazon

Get Kilt: A Zombie Pill by: Raymund Hensley

While we don’t post all of the straight to ebook zombie novels coming out we do post the ones that catch our eye and Get Kilt has an interesting twist. A source for the undead that is believable in how it could happen!

An energy pill called Kilt turns the elderly into overactive, dangerous zombies. Time for the walking dead to GET KILT.

Available on Amazon.

Marvel Zombies 5

The Deadpool zombie was able to survive the entire Marvel Zombie plague and make it to the ‘regular’ Marvel Earth. While it fails to infect the populace there is another small outbreak occurring and it takes an extremely random group of heroes to put down the outbreak.

MACHINE MAN IS BACK! Zombies of the multiverse, watch your rotting backs! To obtain a cure for the zombie virus for Morbius the Living Vampire, Aaron Stack, Agent of ARMOR, must traverse alternate realities hunting down the plague in all its myriad forms…with a most unusual (but somehow oddly appropriate) partner! First up: in the Alterniverse known as “The Territory,” the Old West never died. But when the greatest gunslingers of Marveldom – Two-Gun Kid, Phantom Rider, Kid Colt, and many others – rise from their graves in Boot Hill, the stage is set for a High Noon showdown with flesh-eating outlaws the likes of which you’ve never seen! Also featuring a trip to Camelot to battle the original Black Knight!

Available on Amazon.

BOOK: The Bottom Feeders and Other Stories by: Aaron Polson

While this is a collection that isn’t ALL about zombies we felt that with the inclusion of the undead we’d give you the option for an anthology that mixes it up a bit. While everything in here seems to be dead OR enjoys eating people from the blurb it’ll have a few different aspects of the undead to enjoy.

A collection of fourteen dark stories from Horror Writers Association member Aaron Polson. Witness hotels with shifting rooms…carnivorous beetles bent on devouring a sleepy mountain town…vindictive spirits with beautiful eyes…an undead Marine on his return from Iraq…a pond full of restless dead in the title story, and more. About the author: Aaron Polson was born on the Ides of March: a good day for him, unlucky for Julius Caesar. He currently lives in Lawrence, Kansas with his wife, two sons, and a tattooed rabbit. To pay the bills, Aaron attempts to teach high school students the difference between irony and coincidence.

Available at Amazon.