New Dawn Fades

The damned among us who, for reasons known only the Elder Ones, have been called upon to write about zombies in a pop culture landscape where self-referential Abbott and Costello-like movies like Zombieland already exist, and Plants versus Zombies, and Zombie Johnny Cash T-shirts, for crying out loud, have an obligation to the universe to take a stab at something new and different. Something that's never been done before. New Dawn Fades is full of such stabs. More than stabs, actually -- what you'll find here are thrusts, slashes and downright eviscerations on a convention that just won't die. A handful of strong-hearted writers with more guts than most of their creations stage an outright attack on the zombie genre. It is an assault of such bold, innovative, horrific and sometimes downright funny intensity that they manage, in the process, to turn the whole enterprise upside-down and burn it to the ground. Includes 20 New Stories from ... Amy Gaertner, Alex Azar, James Dorr, Donald Jacob Uitvlugt, Cayleigh Hickey, J Gerard Michaels, D R Pinney, Dustin Monk, Rose Blackthorn, J David Anderson, Jacqui Bryant, R J Hubbard, Lee Davis, Janet Gillett, Max Booth III, Brent Abell, Alan Jozwiak, Brandy Gaye, Ricky Massengale, and Dan Hart. Introduction by NYTimes Bestselling Author Joe Schreiber Edited by Eric Beebe