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Exclusive Interview: “Marvel Zombies: The Hunger” Author Marsheila Rockwell

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date October 23, 2023
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People love superheroes, and people love zombies. So, by the transitive property, people love zombie superheroes. Or you could just consider how both Marvel and DC have told zombie stories, with the former even incorporating them into their recent animated show What If?

Now, people who love zombie superheroes can get their fix without all those pesky illustrations thanks to Marsheila Rockwell’s new superheroic horror novel Marvel Zombies: The Hunger (paperback, Kindle). In the following email interview, Rockwell discusses what inspired and influenced this story, as well as how it connects to Marvel’s comics, What If?, and the other Marvel novels published by Aconyte.

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Exclusive Interview: “Zombicide: Black Plague: Isle Of The Undead” Author C.L. Werner

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date May 15, 2023
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While we’ve had tons of zombie stories set in modern times (The Walking Dead), as well as in the future (Dead Space), the past remains a largely untapped setting for stories of the undead. Or at least it did until Raphaël Guiton, Jean-Baptiste Lullien, and Nicolas Raoult expanded their undead board game Zombicide to include a medieval fantasy realm spin-off version called Black Plague. But for people who prefer to read about the living impaired, instead of playing with them, writer C.L. Werner has you covered. Hopefully with a big sword. In the following email interview, Werner discusses Zombicide: Black Plague: Isle Of The Undead (paperback, Kindle), the sequel to his previous horror-infused epic fantasy tale, Age Of The Undead.

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Exclusive Interview: “Zombicide: All Or Nothing” Author Josh Reynolds

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date September 19, 2022
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Like the survival board game Zombicide that it’s connected to, Josh Reynold’s novel Zombicide: All Or Nothing (paperback, Kindle, audiobook) was inspired in part by some iconic zombie movies. But as Reynolds explains in the following email interview, it was also inspired by an iconic movie that’s not about the living impaired.

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Exclusive Interview: “And Then I Woke Up” Author Malcolm Devlin

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date April 14, 2022
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To be a good writer, it helps to have a grasp on human nature. Which bodes well for Malcolm Devlin’s weird fiction zombie novella And Then I Woke Up (paperback, Kindle). Though written before the current Covid-19 pandemic, in the following email interiew, Devlin explains how his story wound up being sadly prescient when it came to people’s reactions.

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Exclusive Interview: Corpse Fauna: The Dead Bear Witness Author James Chambers

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date October 30, 2019
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When James Chambers wrote the zombie novella The Dead Bear Witness in the late-’90s, stories about the undead were as uncommon as, well, survivors in a George Romero movie. There was only one Resident Evil game, and no movies; there was no Walking Dead, in print or on TV; and not much else when it came to the “living impaired.” My how times have changed. In the following email interview, Chambers talks about Corpse Fauna: Volume 1: The Dead Bear Witness (paperback), a collection of his narratively connected novellas and short stories that’s not only being reprinted, but is the first of four related volumes that will ultimately put this zombie saga deep in the ground.

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“Resident Evil 2” (2019) Review

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date January 22, 2019
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Released in 1998, the original Resident Evil 2 was, at the time, one of the better survival horror games ever made. But times change, and if 2015’s faithful remake of Resident Evil is any indication, the original Resident Evil 2 wouldn’t hold up today. Thankfully, the good people at Capcom have gone a different route with this new edition of Resident Evil 2 (PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC), which not only boasts modern-style controls, but reworks other aspects to make this feel like…well, not a whole new game, but certainly a revived one.

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Exclusive Interview: The Death And Life Of Schneider Wrack Author Nate Crowley

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date August 7, 2017
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Nate Crowley The Death And Life Of Schneider Wrack

In some zombie stories, the living try to use the undead as a workforce. Though usually just as protection, as an early warning system, or as an army. But in his new novel The Death And Life Of Schneider Wrack (paperback, digital), writer Nate Crowley envisions a world in which criminals are turned into zombies and forced to work manual labor jobs. Though in talking to Crowley about his novel, what struck me is that his tale isn’t told from the perspective of the living, but of the dead.

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Exclusive Interview: Welcome To Deadland Author Zac Tyler Linville

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date August 11, 2016
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In his debut novel Welcome To Deadland (hardcover, digital), writer Zac Tyler Linville sets a coming of age story in the middle of a zombie apocalypse. But while his story is infested with the infected, in talking to Linville about his book — which was co-published by The Nerdist and Inkshares after winning their first publishing contest — it’s clear, as he puts it, that Deadland is “a book with zombies, not a book about zombies.”

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#KILLALLZOMBIES Review

For more than a hundred and fifty years, it’s been illegal to judge a book by its cover, and similar snap judgements about other forms of entertainment are equally discouraged. But while you wouldn’t be wrong to temper your expectations about the top-down, twin-stick shooter #KILLALLZOMBIES because it has an all-caps hashtag for a name, the game’s low-rent cheesiness is just one of this game’s many fundamental problems.

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