The Best of Tomes of the Dead: 2 - Tapa blanda

The second Best-of collection of Abaddon Zombie series Tomes of the Dead, featuring three terrifying takes on the zombie story.

The Way of The Barefoot Zombie – Jasper Bark. Big business meets voodoo sorcery in this tale of economic greed and the undead. Can the world’s financial elite find their inner-zombie, or will they merely be food for ghouls?

Tide of Souls – Simon Bestwick. When earth experiences a catastrophic flood, humanity thinks the worst has happened. They are wrong, for from the water strides the undead, and they are hungry indeed. Can a small squad of soldiers fight for survival while trying to find the source of this supernatural apocalypse?

Hungry Hearts – Gary McMahon. The ultimate love triangle: a man, a dead woman and a serial killer. When the dead rise and turn a policeman’s world on its head he fights to save his wife, but she is murdered by a vicious killer. Now Rick Nutman goes on a quest for survival across a broken land, his undead wife in tow. Only to be followed by the man who originally murdered her.

Simon Bestwick writes horror fiction and crime. simon-bestwick.blogspot.com

Gary McMahon’s fiction has appeared in magazines and anthologies in the UK and US and has been reprinted in both The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror and The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. He is the British-Fantasy-Award-nominated author of Rough Cut. www.garymcmahon.com

Jasper Bark is a novelist, children’s author and comic writer.www.jasperbark.net