Tales of the Awakening Dead

by Tony Simmons

The dead are always hungry when they awaken, but there the stories diverge. This collection of eight frightening tales explores zombie survival in all its gory forms. From the boy waiting for a school bus after the holocaust, to the office worker haunted by the question on every dead man's lips. There's the physics student experimenting on his girlfriend, a neglected girl baiting the hungry man to be her weapon of vengeance, and one surreal night at a drive-in theater. What follows when the literary father of the Beat Generation faces the end of the world, or a stranger puts the bite on a high school field trip? The collection also includes a sneak preview of the author's upcoming novel of the Awakening Dead, a story of a dead man who becomes self-aware but still craves "This Mortal Flesh."

Genres: Zombies

54 pages, Paperback

First published October 8, 2013

About the author

Tony is the author of The Caliban Cycle (Giants in the Earth, And the Moon Made Blood, Sins of the Fathers, and a fourth novel to be released in 2020; the ongoing tales of Capt. Gideon Argo and the Flying Zombies, including a new collection of shorts and a novel of Weird War One coming in 2020; the zombie survival short story collection, Tales of the Awakening Dead; the literary novel, Welcome to the Dawning of a New Century; the "endtimes fable" The Book of Gabriel; a collection of his newspaper columns called Dazed and Raving in the Undercurrents; and The Best of Days, a collection of short stories and miscellany. His short stories have appeared in several anthologies, including the Adventures in the Arcane series; he edited the two-volume City Limits collections, which were the official literary anthologies of the Panama City Centennial, and the Floriopolis anthologies. He is a content producer and editor for The News Herald in Panama City, Florida. He teaches creative writing at Gulf Coast State College. He lives on the beach with his family.