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Undead Legacy

3/28/2015

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You stir early, removing your head from the beaten pillow. Your home is silent. The familiar, everyday noises that introduce you to the beautiful morning are absent. The dog barking, the neighbour's irritating car alarm, the flush of the toilet - all missing. After stumbling down your hallway, stepping into your slippers and avoiding the rug that always attempts to break your neck, you open the front door, adjust your eyes, yawn and... 
You scream. 

The world before you is chaos, mayhem, absolute anarchy. No...it's an apocalypse. A zombie apocalypse, where the living dead rule and humans are a tasty, but pesky afterthought. You look to your left and see a group of the undead. Your dog is massacred, mercilessly shredded between them like a sloppy, gore soaked entrée. Their eyes lock onto you. You're dessert. You gulp, pee your pants, panic...what do you do? 
From JEA Wetworks comes Undead Legacy, an anthology of undead horror. Featuring 23 stories and poems from some of the best writers in the genre today. Whatever your view on the undead - modern, old school, classic, fast, slow - there's something for everyone in Undead Legacy. With two very special forewords from Terry M. West and Richard Laymon artwork aficionado Steve Crisp, Undead Legacy looks to cement its place in horror literature for years to come. 

After all, a Legacy is timeless...

Stuart Keane is a person who, at a very young age, fell in love with the written word.

People ask me why I enjoy books. Sometimes I remain speechless. I know many people who have never read a book (they do exist) and trying to explain this simple, yet amazing pastime to them is never easy. It's pretty difficult in fact. I think comparing movies and books is needless because they are two completely different experiences. However, until you experience both, describing them never really does them justice.

This comparison has probably gone on for decades. I read my first adult book at age seven. This was years after seeing my first film but the experience, where new, was something else entirely. I remember being stuck on one page (for those who are curious, the book was Flesh by Richard Laymon, an excellent yet under appreciated horror writer) for half an hour because the detail in the scene was so vivid. I actually remember him describing an abandoned restaurant and I didn't want to continue. It was THAT real to me that I felt I was actually there. Continuing to read would take me into the restaurant and because of previous events in the book, you knew it was a very bad idea.

This was my first memory of the written word. It's remained with me since and probably always will. Many authors have that defining moment when they realised they wanted to write fiction for a living. This is mine and has shaped my life ever since.

So who is Stuart Keane?

Just an ordinary guy who likes to write thrilling, compelling stories. For thirty years, people have enthralled me, entertained me and provided me with many, many adventures. And inspiration. Now, I want to return the favour.
Essel Pratt is from Mishawka, Indiana, a North Central town near the Michigan Border. His prolific writings have graced the pages of multiple anthologies, a couple self-published works, as well as his own creations. 

As a husband, a father, and a pet owner, Essel's responsibilities never end. Other than a family man, he works a full time job an hour from his home, he is a writer for the Inquisitr, a full time student on his journey to a degree - while maintaining a 4.0 GPA, and is also the Chief of Acquisitions and Executive Assistant for J. Ellington Ashton Press. His means of relieving stress and relaxing equate to sitting in front of his dual screens and writing the tales within the recesses of his mind. 

Inspired by C.S. Lewis, Clive Barker, Stephen King, Harper Lee, William Golding, and many more, Essel doesn't restrain his writings to straight horror. His first Novel, Final Reverie is more Fantasy/Adventure, but does include elements of Horror. His first zombie book, The ABC's of Zombie Friendship, attacks the zombie genre from an alternate perspective. Future books, that are in progress and yet to be imagined, will explore the blurred boundaries of horror within its competing genres, mixing the elements into a literary stew.


You can follow Essel at the following:

www.facebook.com/esselprattwriting

Esselpratt.blogspot.com

@EsselPratt
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Undead Walking....

3/25/2015

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A few iconic Zombie or zombish movies....(according to catt)

Night of the Living Dead

It's a classic. The dynamics of the group and the fear set the standards for zombie movies. The opening scene is still chilling.
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Dawn of the Dead

Original and remake.  I love both for different reasons. The original  scared me and I love that, but the remake...Ving just knocked it out!  Malls are forever tainted.
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Day of the Dead

When the zombie salutes....epic. And the feel is very depressing and claustrophobic. One thing this film has is the emotional desperation that always works well. 
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28 Days Later

Not a zombie flick per se but it counts. This was the first realistic account and the city itself is a character.
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28 Weeks Later

I love it all, even the unrealistic parts. The ending sequence nailed it but the opening scene is what makes this movie strong. The soundtrack is one I actually downloaded because it made such an impact on me.
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Shaun of the Dead

Okay. I do not like comedies. I hate comedy with horror, but this was cheeky and somehow the people say the things I would say to relieve my fears. Well done movie.
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World War Z

I am one of the weird people who didn't like the book. I know. I went in to this wanting to hate the movie but while those who liked the book found fault in this, I found fun. I like this a lot for the CGI and over-the-top scenes. And Pitt strangely nailed the main role.
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Resident Evil

Not a pure Z movie. That said, I disliked the creature that appears and have to ignore that part in this series of the films but I liked all the actors. Mila is awesome. And I loved Michelle Rodriguez in the first movie; she was a fun character.
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Zombie offerings from JEA

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The Walking Dead. How do you think the season will end?

Most recent recap HERE
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Zombieland

I wanted to hate this one as well. Comedy. Woody? Bill Murray? Yuk. And yet, I loved it. Both actors were excellent and the movie is pure entertainment.
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Planet Terror

A favorite. I love the director and Michael Biehn was a treat. Machine gun leg? Silly? Maybe but I was totally entertained and had fun with this movie. Rose M. was perfect and the rest of the cast was superb.
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Dead Girl

Odd choice for my top 10. This is a brutal Z movie and there are some tough themes but that's what makes it work. The lead actor evolved and it's just  one of those movies that can be forgotten.
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The comments are open and I hope a few will leave comments. What are your favorite zombie movies? Who will die (or live) on TWD. Have you read a JEA Z book? How did you like it? 
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Just news...

3/21/2015

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Get a JEA tee shirt here 

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Whatever mood you're in...we have that!

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Free For You....

3/10/2015

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catt here. On march 12-17 I will be at ALLCON in Ft.Worth for 4 panels and book signings. I know you call can't make it since we live far apart, but March 15,16,17 we will offer something special: 7 free ebooks. Grab yours an enjoy!
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For our readers:

3/4/2015

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Severozavodsk, Russia is no one's choice destination. A frozen industrial wasteland, it is a grim place where secrets are buried by blizzards and men. When Jake Levin and Bill Jones, American financial analysts in search of an investment opportunity, arrive in Severozavodsk, they will get much more than they bargained for, as the darkness at the heart of the city surges and primal, inhuman forces begin to stir under the permafrost. Even with the help of beautiful and secretive Olga, will Jake and Bill survive the reckoning with powers beyond their comprehension that threaten the town and all in it?
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After the loss of his first life, Alex, the werecat, is driven from his home and into the unknown of Birmingham in the 1970s. As a young cat on the prowl, his first goal is to find food and shelter. However, he ends up getting much more than he ever bargained for when he meets up with another of his kind, a she-cat!

Anthony Crowley
"I have a new novella “The Mirrored Room” and the“Tombstones” audiobook  recently released. I am currently finishing some more writing projects, including “Infestation” which shall be featured in the “Undead Legacy” anthology, published by JEA/Wetworks. This collection will be available from 29th March 2015. My contributed story shall show my readers another style to my work. It will be exciting. I am also compiling a ten story anthology “Doomsday after Midnight” and I am embarking on a magazine project, to be titled “Dark Realms”. I have the talented assisted team of Alex S.Johnson, Dean.M.Drinkel. This shall be a publication within literary horror, but with no restrictions. We already have some leading names in horror contributing to this new venture. We are looking for the initial release hopefully Mid-year 2015."  Read the rest here: Link



Have you read Jim Goforth?

Jim Goforth is a horror author currently based in Holbrook, Australia. Happily married with two kids and a cat he has been writing tales of horror since the early nineties.
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"I am a massive aficionado of both horror and heavy metal, but this doesn’t essentially apply just to my writing, more of a study of how two often misunderstood (or maligned, take your pick) genres in their various fields can be entwined. Personally I often write to a soundtrack of different varieties of metal music; I am often inspired by it both lyrically and musically, and it often works to set out a scene or aid in pacing, or to trigger the right emotion and amplify an assortment of aspects in a certain story. I frequently infiltrate my work with references of a metal nature and often make mention that what I write is a melange of grindhouse splatterpunk and old school classic horror all driven by heavy metal, but that in itself is only skimming the surface in what I mean by the fiction genre and the music genre being so closely aligned, they may as well be brothers from another mother." (Jim Goforth) more Here


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