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New Chad Halverson Zombie Apocalypse Book in November

Bryan Cassiday’s next Chad Halverson zombie apocalypse book “Blast Shelter” will be released at the end of November on Amazon.

Audiobook for “Boxed”

The audiobook version of Bryan Cassiday’s zombie Kindle short story “Boxed” is now in production.  I’ll let you know when it’s available.  The Kindle horror story is available at Amazon.

“The Kill Option” Audiobook Now at Amazon

Bryan Cassiday’s conspiracy thriller The Kill Option is now available in an audiobook version at Amazon.

“The Kill Option” Is Now Available as an Audiobook

Bryan Cassiday’s conspiracy thriller The Kill Option is now available as an audiobook on Audible.com. Just search for The Kill Option and click on the link.

In the explosive international thriller The Kill Option, the feuding McQueen brothers must band together to prevent the apocalypse of World War III.  One brother, Nick, is a journalist who seeks the truth.  The other, Barry, is a CIA hit man who leads a double life. The two brothers must come to terms long enough to thwart a Basque hit man who has been hired in Paris to trigger the war to end all wars.  The brothers discover that the assassin is merely a pawn in a ruthless grab for power by a supranational cabal that wants a certain world leader killed at a summit in Pike National Forest in Colorado and has both brothers in its crosshairs as well.

 

 

Zombies Invade Academia

Even colleges are getting into the act with zombies.

According to the Los Angles Times (Sept. 5, 2013), UC Irvine is teaming up with the AMC Network, home of “The Walking Dead,” to offer a free online course called “Society, Science, Survival:  Lessons from AMC’s ‘The Walking Dead.’”  The eight-week course starts Oct. 14 and will offer lectures about aspects of the show that are related to social science, physics, public health, and mathematics.

UCI is expecting hundreds of thousands of students to enroll in the course.  Applicants are encouraged to sign up for the course at www.canvas.net/TWD.

This just goes to show that the zombie phenom is not going away any time soon.  In fact, it shows quite the opposite–that there is an upsurge in the presence of zombies in all aspects of society, and to ignore them would be foolhardy.

The most important thing to know about zombies is how to kill them in order to stop the disease from spreading.  You don’t need a college degree to learn how to do this, but you will learn in this zombie course why it is mathematically important that you kill as many zombies as possible as quickly as possible.

“Boxed” Is Now Available on Kindle

My new zombie short story “Boxed” is now available on Kindle. Seven survivors of a zombie apocalypse are trapped inside an elevator.  One of them tells the others that his wife saw one of the passengers get bitten by a zombie before they entered the elevator. The passengers must identify and kill the victim before he or she turns and starts attacking them.  Will they discover the victim in time or will they kill each other first?

Special Bonus:

The first chapter of the next Chad Halverson zombie apocalypse thriller (Book 5) is included after “Boxed.”

 

New Zombie Short Story

Here’s the cover for my new zombie short story “Boxed,” which sill soon be on Kindle. This is a brand-new horror story that has never before appeared anywhere in print.  As a special bonus, at the end of the story will be the terrifying first chapter of Chad Halverson, Book 5.

New Zombie Short Story Due Soon

I plan on having a new zombie short story coming out soon.  I’ll keep you posted.  As a bonus, I’m planning on having the first chapter of the next Chad Halverson zombie apocalypse book after the story.

What Is It about Zombie Books?

“The thing that readers of any zombie book need to have in common is at least a medium tolerance for violence.”–Library Journal (July 2013)

You need to have more than a medium tolerance for violence to read my zombie books. You need to be downright bloodthirsty.

The Library Journal is trying to figure out why zombie books keep coming back from the dead, so to speak, in their July issue.  They seem to think that zombie comedies are superior to straight zombie horror books.  Therefore, I would definitely not recommend my zombie books to the Library Journal.

And I take issue with their view that zombie comedies are superior to zombie horror taken neat.  Certainly zombie books can have funny dialogue and funny scenes in them, but the main thrust of the zombie book should be horror, not comedy.  Zombie comedy books that play zombies strictly for laughs are not appreciated by the true connoisseur of zombie books.

The same could be said for zombie movies.  Not only is the comedy Zombie Land inferior to a true zombie horror film like Night of the Living Dead, it’s not even in the same league.  It’s nonsense to even compare the two.  Their only similarity is that they both happen to have zombies in them.

In short, zombie books aren’t about comedy.  They’re about horror.  As Lenin famously said about terrorism, “The purpose of terrorism is to terrify.”  First and foremost, a true zombie horror book needs to horrify.  Zombie books need to get back to their roots and scare the bejabbers out of readers and shed buckets of blood in the process.

“Kill Ratio” is only $2.99 on Kindle Sunday Aug. 18

Bryan Cassiday’s dystopian thriller Kill Ratio is only $2.99 on Sunday August 18 on Kindle at Amazon.