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Hell of the Dead
NONSTOP ZOMBIE ACTION!
A priest protecting a woman and her child.
A police chief protecting himself.
A death cult hunting their next sacrifice.
The dead rising to collect revenge!
Erik Handy, the author of Dead Pool and The Creeping City, brings you unrelenting terror at its best.
Steamy jungles. Tons of bullets. The invincible undead. This book is a grindhouse movie in print form!
Hell of the Dead is a new addition to the great horror legacies of George Romero and Robert Kirkman!
A priest protecting a woman and her child.
A police chief protecting himself.
A death cult hunting their next sacrifice.
The dead rising to collect revenge!
Erik Handy, the author of Dead Pool and The Creeping City, brings you unrelenting terror at its best.
Steamy jungles. Tons of bullets. The invincible undead. This book is a grindhouse movie in print form!
Hell of the Dead is a new addition to the great horror legacies of George Romero and Robert Kirkman!
137 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 3, 2010
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Erik Handy
59 books5 followersErik Handy grew up on a steady diet of professional wrestling, bad horror movies that went straight to video, and comic books. There were also a lot of video games. He currently absorbs silence and coffee.
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January 16, 2019
A death cult and zombies in a jungle, battling an army - hell yeah! One of the things I most enjoyed about this book was it gave a clear reason for the zombies appearing. There are so many novels where the reader has to accept zombies have risen from the dead and the living are left scrambling for their lives, without any clear reason why. But Hell of the Dead takes a different approach, where a group of people seeking revenge actively reanimate corpses to do their bidding.
This novel unfolds at breakneck speed, which is great, but also leads to its downfall. On one hand the fight scenes are gory and action packed, just the way I like them and had me devouring this story like a fiend. But on the other hand the overall pace of the novel is so fast that there is very little connection to the characters. For example, one of the characters is a priest having a crisis of faith, but the book moves along so quickly that the reader is really only told about his conflict and no time is given to feel what he's going through. Since this is a plot driven story, it may have worked better if this character was merely a missionary in a foreign land, leaving out the crisis of faith.
Overall, this was a quick and enjoyable read, and a great plot driven, action/horror novel.
This novel unfolds at breakneck speed, which is great, but also leads to its downfall. On one hand the fight scenes are gory and action packed, just the way I like them and had me devouring this story like a fiend. But on the other hand the overall pace of the novel is so fast that there is very little connection to the characters. For example, one of the characters is a priest having a crisis of faith, but the book moves along so quickly that the reader is really only told about his conflict and no time is given to feel what he's going through. Since this is a plot driven story, it may have worked better if this character was merely a missionary in a foreign land, leaving out the crisis of faith.
Overall, this was a quick and enjoyable read, and a great plot driven, action/horror novel.
April 12, 2012
Interesting use of zombies. I think, more importantly, the real talent Erik Handy demonstrated here is his very believable, realistic portrayal of a small, poverty-stricken, Central American village, with all its strange (to us) customs, beliefs, and superstitions. Just because some of those superstitions are legitimate doesn't detract anything from the story. In fact, that's what makes the story worth reading. All in all, not a bad read.
February 2, 2021
Not exactly non-stop zombie action as promised, more of a chase around a jungle with 10 zombies. Short story, so little in the way of character development but good enough to pass the time on the train or bus into work.
October 5, 2013
the setting of the book was interesting, the "hero?" Nolan the priest was well written, but the horror story ended abruptly without even going anywhere. The short stories as well lacked any kind of conclusion/follow through. A writer with a great deal of potential, but who lacks an ability to carry out the storyline.
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