The original 1939 blurb for this story reads: "Molding corpses stalk darkness as fate cuts a grim, macabre jigsaw of death!" Today you would accept a zombie story, as with the hit TV show "The Walking Dead," but in the original pages of the pulp magazine Thrilling Mystery, you get the opposite — a classic crime story by one of the best pulp writers of the era. The dead may walk, but there... [click here for more]
Wildside Press's new line of MegapackTM ebook anthologies focusing on 20th Century masters of Weird Fiction gets off to a great start with this new selection of tales by Henry S. Whitehead, famed Weird Tales contributor.
Whitehead, who penned dozens of stories over the course of his career, set many of them with a West Indies theme. His tales of "jumbees" (zombies) represent some of the... [click here for more]
Who is this Mark McLaughlin person, and why should you read him?
Mark—whom I’ve had the pleasure of publishing for nearly 20 years now—is one of those unique voices in the horror field. He doesn’t tread the safe (or even sane!) path, but goes off in quirky directions, and he’s happy to have company along the way. And while he’s poking around the oddest places, he finds humor in the outrageous... [click here for more]
Resurrected corpses, voodoo conjuring, black magic (and blacker science)...these are all well known to cause zombie breakouts. Here are classic and modern tales, full of thrills and chills and the living dead...tales of zombies! These stories don't (well, mostly don't!) go for the gross-out. Great writing, lots of atmosphere and suspense (and the occasional laugh) -- if you want more than just extreme... [click here for more]