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November 17, 2013
CW to reboot Romero’s ‘Tales from the Darkside’
I grew up on shows like this and Monsters which came on right after. I would love to be a part of this somehow. I might have to do some digging to see what I can come up with.
http://za.omg.yahoo.com/news/cw-reboot-romeros-tales-darkside-055600974.html
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November 15, 2013
Get The Closet for #free Today
The first installment of the Returned series is on Kindle for free today. Now is a great time to begin this series before it starts up again in the new year. Or if you already have it, download The Revelation (The Returned), and then The Bargain (The Returned). These are both great reads at only $0.99!
Z-Flash #4 #amreading #free #horror
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Name Unknown, Location Unknown—2004
(taken from the journal of a hospital employee)
There’s a ton of dead bodies in here. I don’t know why, but a doctor slapped a clipboard in my hand and told me to take a head count. Everybody’s running around. A lot of people are hurt. A whole lot more are dead.
There wasn’t enough room for me to stand out in the hall to count the bodies they were bringing in so somebody else shoved me into this meat locker to count from inside. I think a plane crashed into a bus or something. People were saying stuff all at once, but I’m only catching bits or pieces. There was somebody else in here doing something, but as soon as she saw me she must have thought I was her replacement and left.
Damn. 50. And from the sounds coming from the hallway the day is still young.
There’s some kind of ante-room in here with a whole lot more bodies in it. I started counting over. I stopped when I got to 16. There’s this girl (I guess a girl, her body looks really young), except… she doesn’t have a head. At first I’m staring at this headless body, but then it hits me that I’m staring at a girl who couldn’t have been 18 even and I feel all pervy. That doesn’t even make sense to me because what kind of dude gets his rocks off by staring at decapatated (however you spell it) bodies of prepubescent (?) girls?
I heard the doors slap open twice out there. It’s starting to feel crowd—
Oh shit. I swear to God this girl’s body just moved. My sides hurt I laughed so hard. My mind is gonna play tricks on me if I don’t get outta here soon! Maybe I need to step out for some air because her arm just completely fell off this gurney thing and it’s just dangling now. I ain’t touching it. The doors just slapped open again.
OK, I know this sounds… reads (whatever) nuts, but for real the girl did just move. I was picking up my pen off the floor and her arm sorta… twitched. I’m no doctor, but it’s probably like signals from the brain or something, right? Wait, she doesn’t have a head. OK, how the hell does that happen?
All right I just stepped out in the hall and tried to flag down a doctor to come take a look. The only person who even remotely looked like a doc was this Pakistani guy, except he was crying and screaming in Pakistani and he wasn’t moving from that spot. I grabbed an EMT and he about slugged me when I touched him. I thought he was coming when I told him what I saw but when I rushed back in here he wasn’t behind me.
The girl is really moving around now and it’s getting more than a little creepy. Her arms are shaking and she keeps making fists and then shaking again. At first I thought it was like a seizure or something, but I think she’s in pain. I mean, I broke my toe once when I was a kid and it hurt really bad, right? But I knew I couldn’t just reach down and grab it ‘cause it would hurt worse. So I just stood there, hopping around on one foot and waving my hands around until my dad got me to the hospital. Almost like she’s waving her arms around.
How bad does it hurt to get your head cut off?
I got the guts to take a step closer to look at the wound. I mean, I assumed her head was cut off, but I didn’t really look-look. I don’t know how to describe it—it looks like a ‘clean’ cut for the most part, except at the back where I can see part of her spine and a fist-sized piece of meat (ugh!) hanging off it.
Dammit! She grabbed me. I don’t know if she felt me or what, but she reached out and grabbed my arm. I barely shook her off, she was strong. The doors just banged open again and I think I’m outtie. I mean, I need the money and all and I’m sorry, but this is just a temp job.
There’s another gurney just in front of the doors with something about the size of a bowling ball under a sheet. I don’t know if it’s just my eyes or what, but I saw it move. My bad for not picking up the girl from the floor, but I ain’t waiting around for all these other bodies to start skipping around.
We did an extensive search for plane crashes in the year 2004, but could find none that had crashed into any buses. There were three fatal bus crashes reported in that year, but one was a bus carrying only senior citizens and the other had only one death. The third was a passenger bus passing through Virginia at the time of the crash. We received no responses to several Freedom of Information Act requests and a PR representative who wished to remain nameless declined to comment.
Z-Flash #4 Tonight!
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November 11, 2013
I need your help #amwriting #horror
Yes, you. Sitting at your computer or holding that smart phone in your hands. I need you. Take a look at that cover. It. Sucks. I need a new one. Something that will catch people’s attention. The new cover also needs to have a snappier title. You can download this book for free right now at http://bit.ly/1diApYv and type in code HZ66Q at checkout. Please read to get a better idea for a title because I’m just stuck. I’ll buy the winner your choice of any of my eBooks and a copy of Axe to the Face once it’s published. Contest ends at the end of the month and I’ll announce the winner with the cover reveal.
Something I need to be doing
I was finally able to write my first novel by sitting down and actually plotting it out. I don’t know if it’s the usual or proper way to do it, but it worked for me. I just chanced across this site and saw this simple skeleton plotting out an entire story. I need to try this. So on my way to lunch I just grabbed a sheet of paper and I’m going to create a skeleton similar to this one so I can put more flesh on the story I’m writing for NaNoWriMo. http://www.mohanalakshmi.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/photo-e1384185494807.jpg
And check out WWW.mohanalakshmi.com.
November 8, 2013
Paul Meiniczek ‘A Haunted Halloween’ Review
Reblogged from Horror Novel Reviews:
Written by: Matt Molgaard
You’re probably thinking I should just let the holiday go for the remainder of this year, right? Well, no can do. In my world, every day is Halloween. So, I’m bringing you some late coverage of a quality seasonal collection, and no, I’m not talking about our very own HNR Halloween anthology (pardon the shameless self-promotion). On tap for you is a breakdown of Paul Meiniczek’s Halloween themed effort, A Haunted Halloween.
November 7, 2013
Another Great #Review for Where the Monsters Are #amreading
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The Dumbest Review. Ever.
If you’ve read anything by me you know I’m a horror author. That being said, I leave a lot of room for the possibility someone doesn’t know I even exist (ego thoroughly check? Yes). I saw my eBook 30 Minute Plan received a new review and like any starved-for-attention writer I immediately checked it out. What followed was a completely, stating-the-obvious review by someone who had the ability to know better. Well, read the review below and then I’ll explain.
Its about zombies and I could not possibly care less. Not on my recommended list. Not for me, that’s for sure – Stu Pitt
Yes, 30 Minute Plan is about zombies. I checked out his other reviews to try to get a hold of what possessed him to write such a thing when I saw reviews for products such as Leslie Sansone: Walk to the HITS Radio Remixes, The IF Diet, and Yoga Prayer. It’s apparent to me this guy thought my book had something to do with exercise, but in case you haven’t seen it before, here’s the cover:
Now if that doesn’t scream that my book has 0 to do with physical fitness, maybe there was something in the description that confused him. Hm, let’s read together:
It’s the dusk of the zombie apocalypse. What’s left of mankind is huddled in the husks of the cities of the world. There are fewer of the walking dead, but they are just as dangerous as ever. After scientists come up with the brilliant idea of scent-marking them something goes wrong and a soldier is taken. When a fellow ‘dog’ decides to take matters into his own hands to rescue his comrade he finds the living dead have changed for the worse. Includes an excerpt of The Zombie Archives, now available.
Okay, zombies are referenced four times there. So the way I count it, there were at least five warning signs that the book was not what he was looking for. He probably leapt at it because the eBook is free.
