Tag Archive | zombie fiction
G.O.R.E. Score: New Zed Order: Survive
Original Release Date: September 4, 2009; re-released February 15, 2011 Publisher: Permuted Press (re-release) I love a good tale of triumph, and although I could be speaking about some of the characters and situations in Todd Sprague’s “New Zed Order: Survive,” I am speaking more about the journey Sprague’s book has been through. You see, […]
G.O.R.E. Score: Comes the Dark
Original Release Date: July 16, 2010 Publisher: Library of the Living Dead Press Being a horror critic that focuses specifically on zombie stories, I hear a lot of discussion from zombie fans about what they like and what they don’t like, and they generally tend to fall into two distinct categories. Many fans seem keen […]
G.O.R.E. Score: Kolchak The Night Stalker: The Zombie
Original Air Date: September 20, 1974 Run Time: 50 minutes Have you ever stumbled across, as an adult, a TV series or movie you used to watch as a kid? Sometimes it fills you with a sense of nostalgia to re-connect with the scenes you remember seeing while you were growing up, but sometimes the […]
G.O.R.E. Score: Homecoming
Original Air Date: December 2, 2005 Run time: 58 minutes “Homecoming” was an episode of the two-season television series “Masters of Horror” that aired on Showtime from 2005-2007. Each episode was directed by a (self-proclaimed) Master of Horror; “Homecoming” was written and directed by Joe Dante, who has directed a number of movies, most notably […]
G.O.R.E. Score: Het Madden: A Zombie Perspective
Original Release Date: November 29, 2009 Publisher: Zilyon Publishing “Het Madden: A Zombie Perspective, Book One: Wrath 2012” not only wins the award for Longest Book Title I’ve Seen in Quite Some Time, it’s also a very entertaining read. Written and self-published by first-time author Cal Miller (co-founder of the fledgling Zilyon Publishing, under the […]
G.O.R.E. Score: Breathers: A Zombie’s Lament
Original Release Date: March 3, 2009 Publisher: Broadway Books Okay, truth time: I had been seeing “Breathers” in the bookstore for a long time before I finally broke down and bought it a few months back. The reason I waited so long to buy it: the cover. As you can see, the cover looks like […]
G.O.R.E. Score: Barren Earth
Original Release Date: August 5, 2009 Publisher: Library of the Living Dead Press Let’s call a spade a spade: purchasing a zombie novel or movie from a smaller distributor, publisher, or film studio can be a mixed bag. You never quite know what you’re getting, and the lack of financial backing to the project in […]
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