Canister X – A.P. Fuchs: Zombie, Paranormal Romance and Superhero Novelist, Blogger, Artist, Publisher

Another year of reading has gone by.

In 2010, I read 48 books, the majority of which were graphic novels and, yes, I consider graphic novels “real” books, as they carry the same depth and amazing storytelling ability that novels have.

Below is what I took in last year (<- weird saying that). I also linked the books up to Amazon (where able) in case you wanted to add one or more of these titles to your personal library.

Books Read in 2010

1.) The Holy Spirit by Billy Graham (finished from 2009)
2.) Sin City by Frank Miller
3.) How to Make Webcomics by Brad Guigar, Dave Kellett, Scott Kurtz and Kris Straub
4.) Gross Movie Reviews Volume One by Tim Gross
5.) Jumpstart Your Book Sales: A Money-making Guide for Authors, Independent Publishers and Small Presses by Marilyn and Tom Ross (finished from 2009)
6.) MacFish by Sean Simmans
7.) Animal Behavior and Other Tales of Lycanthropy by Keith Gouveia
8.) Bigfoot War by Eric S. Brown
9.) Zombie Fight Night: Battles of the Dead by A.P. Fuchs
10.) Alec: The Years of Have Pants by Eddie Campbell
11.) Judenhass by Dave Sim
12.) Do Anything by Warren Ellis
13.) All Star Superman Vol. 1 by Grant Morrison and Frank Quietly, with Jamie Grant
14.) All Star Superman Vol. 2 by Grant Morrison and Frank Quietly, with Jamie Grant
15.) Transmetropolitan: Back on the Street by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson
16.) Praise the Dead by Gina Ranalli
17.) Transmetropolitan: Lust for Life by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson
18.) Transmetropolitan Vol. 3 by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson
19.) Stargazer Vol. 1 by Von Allan
20.) Magic Man Plus 15 Tales of Terror by A.P. Fuchs
21.) Madman Vol. 1 by Michael Allred
22.) The Superman Madman Hullabaloo by Mike Allred
23.) The War of the Worlds Plus Blood, Guts and Zombies by H.G. Wells and Eric S. Brown
24.) King-Cat Classix: The Best of King-Cat Comics and Stories by John Porcellino
25.) Luke’s Story (The Jesus Chronicles) by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins (finished from 2009)
26.) Possession of the Dead (Undead World Trilogy, Book 2) by A.P. Fuchs
27.) Transmetropolitan: The New Scum by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson
28.) Transmetropolitan: Lonely City by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson
29.) Transmetropolitan: Gouge Away by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson
30.) Supreme: The Story of the Year by Alan Moore et al.
31.) American Splendor: The Life and Times of Harvey Pekar by Harvey Pekar et al.
32.) Invincible Vol. 1: Family Matters by Robert Kirkman and Cory Walker
33.) Invincible Vol. 2: Eight is Enough by Robert Kirkman and Cory Walker and Ryan Ottley
34.) The Walking Dead Vol. 1: Days Gone Bye by Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore
35.) The Walking Dead Vol. 2: Miles Behind Us by Robert Kirman and Charlie Adlard
36.) Phase 7 #001-004 by Alec Longstreth
37.) Supreme: The Return by Alan Moore et al.
38.) Spawn Vol. 1 by Todd MacFarlane
39.) Spawn Vol. 2 by Todd MacFarlane, Alan Moore and Frank Miller
40.) Our Cancer Year by Harvey Pekar, Joyce Brabner and Frank Stack
41.) Spawn Vol. 3 by Todd MacFarlane et al.
42.) Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? by Alan Moore and Curt Swan
43.) The Walking Dead Vol. 3: Safety Behind Bars by Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard
44.) The Weaponer by Eric S. Brown
45.) Final Crisis by Grant Morrison et al.
46.) Transition: Phase 7 #010-011 by Alec Longstreth
47.) The Black Cat and the Ghoul by Edgar Allan Poe and Keith Gouveia
48.) Making Comics by Scott McCloud

The Coscom Entertainment/Gallery Books reissue of The War of the Worlds Plus Blood, Guts and Zombies by H.G. Wells and Eric S. Brown is now available in bookstores nationwide, and at the following on-line retailers as part of Gallery’s Blood-Enriched Classics line:

Paperback:

Amazon.com
Amazon.ca
Amazon.co.uk
Barnes and Noble
Simon and Schuster
Other On-line Retailers

eBook:

Amazon Kindle
Simon and Schuster

“A clever spin on one of the greatest pieces of end-of-the-world fiction ever written, The War of the Worlds Plus Blood, Guts and Zombies actually manages to add another level to Wells’ classic tale of alien invasion. The living dead – an unexpected by-product of the arrival of the aliens – provides a constant threat to human and Martian alike. It’s hard to tell where Wells’ thoughtful prose stops and Brown’s twisted madness begins. The curse of ‘the Dead’ is so cleverly interwoven into the original story that you’ll be checking old copies, convinced the zombies were always there! A mash-up book that’s actually worth reading!” – David Moody, author of Hater and Dogblood

“Like the undead, Eric S. Brown is an unstoppable force in the genre. His fiction consistently delivers jolts to the heart and mind.” – David Dunwoody, author of Empire and Dark Entities

The story:

The invasion begins . . . and the dead start to rise.

There’s panic in the streets of London as invaders from Mars wreak havoc on the living, slaying the populace with Heat-Rays and poisonous clouds of black smoke. Humanity struggles to survive against technology far beyond its own, meeting fear and death at every turn.

But that’s not the only struggle mankind must face. The dead are rising from their graves with an insatiable hunger for human flesh. Friends, neighbours and loved ones lost to the war of the worlds are now the enemy and the Earth is forever changed.

It’s kill or be killed, if you want to survive, otherwise you might become one of the walking dead yourself.

The last Coscom Entertainment release: Possession of the Dead by A.P. Fuchs

For our full list of books, please see: www.coscomentertainment.com

Simon and Schuster/Gallery Books sent me the off-the-press copies of The War of the Worlds Plus Blood, Guts and Zombies by H.G. Wells and Eric S. Brown the other day.

The book turned out amaaaazzzing. The cover art is out of sight, and though I’ve seen it before, to see it in the flesh just blew me away, not to mention the slick gloss and matte finish to the book. Just plain wow.

Check out these pics, then head on over to Amazon.com and snag yourself a copy of this beautiful book! (And for about $10, you just can’t go wrong.)

Thanks.

Coscom Entertainment is pleased to announce that Alice in Zombieland by Lewis Carroll and Nickolas Cook (published in December 2009) has been picked up for mass market distribution by Source Books.

This is an exciting development for Coscom Entertainment, who earlier this year saw the mass market sale of two other mash ups to Simon and Schuster’s Gallery Books line, Blood Enriched Classics. They were The War of the Worlds Plus Blood, Guts and Zombies by H.G. Wells and Eric S. Brown, and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Zombie Jim by Mark Twain and W. Bill Czolgosz.

Coscom Entertainment is happy for Nickolas Cook and wishes him tremendous success in reaching the wider audience now available to him through mass market channels.

Thanks.

Canister X Newsletter Vol. 1 No. 3

June 2010

About mid May CanisterX.com switched hosting packages and in turn allowed me to install WordPress onto my hosting platform instead of running the freebie version from WordPress.com. As a result, it has made the site more powerful and more capable than its predecessor, paving the way to a more interactive website and one to soon carry much more free media for you, the reader.

I’m really excited about the stuff I have planned for the new site. All I need now is the time to implement it which, as anyone thickly immersed in the publishing business will tell you, is sometimes hard to come by. However, my schedule this year as compared to last year should allow the extra hours required to take things to the next level in my career and also for my press, Coscom Entertainment.

Speaking of Coscom, I want to thank those of you reading this that have purchased our books for doing so. Your support makes it possible for Coscom Entertainment to keep putting out books for you and to keep bringing you stories. I do ask that, if you haven’t read any of my books or those of my colleagues, I kindly request that you consider it. As much as we love our craft, we, like everybody, have bills to pay and families to feed. We do that by providing you with entertainment, and really hope to keep doing so in the years to come.

Thank you in advance for your continued support.

As of this writing, the contracts for the Simon and Schuster deal went out this past Friday (May 14) and the first book, The War of the Worlds Plus Blood, Guts and Zombies by H.G. Wells and Eric S. Brown, is due out in December. The second book, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Zombie Jim by Mark Twain and W. Bill Czolgosz, is due out in April 2011.

Also as of this writing, Coscom Entertainment agreed to a mass market deal for another mashup. A publishing date for this one has yet to be set. More details will be revealed when I’m allowed to inform you.

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In other publishing news, things are going well for Coscom Entertainment. This year, after last year’s whirlwind, I’m slowing things down a touch and not publishing as many works by other people. Time is needed to finish up some stuff of mine that has been put on the backburner.

So far, 2010 looks to be a 3-book year for me. April saw the release of Zombie Fight Night: Battles of the Dead. July will see the release of my first-ever horror short story collection called Magic Man Plus 14 Tales of Terror. September, if all goes to plan, will see the release of the second book in the Undead World Trilogy, Possession of the Dead. I’m writing that last one now and it’s coming along quite well, the scenes easily unfolding before my mind’s eye, transferring quite readily to my fingertips. It carries the same flavor as Blood of the Dead, but the story itself has a different feel as Joe and the gang go up against more than just zombies in this installment.

There is the possibility of a fourth book from me late this year, and that is the print edition of Zomtropolis. As of now, I still plan on maintaining the weekly schedule and leaving the chapters up for free even when the print and eBook editions come out. For those not yet reading Zomtropolis, it’s a zombie-meets-love-story-meets-futuristic tale following a guy who’s blogging about the experience of living in Zomtropolis after the city’s been pretty much wiped out by the undead, and his surviving therein along with dealing with the crushing heartbreak from an ex-girlfriend named Selena. New chapters are posted every Friday. The book can be accessed at www.CanisterX.com right here.

I’m giving some careful and serious consideration to doing a lot of anthologies coming up shortly, most of them zombie ones. More news on how this develops. I enjoy editing anthologies and reception for Dead Science and Vicious Verses and Reanimated Rhymes: Zany Zombie Poetry for the Undead Head has been positive overall.

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In terms of household stuff, my garden is growing very well, and the vegetables are having noticeable gains daily. I have no doubt this is owed to the crazy amount of compost I added to the garden prior to seeding. I took last year’s compost and buried it in the garden before winter. When everything thawed, I took the compost created during the winter season and buried that as well. I let that sit for a few weeks and then topped the garden off with some new soil (containing a special compost blend), raked that in, and then we seeded.

We’re also attempting pumpkins this year and have 8 or 9 shoots coming up. Never grown pumpkins before so this should be an adventure, especially since I had to dig a new patch for them right by the house. The idea here is once the pumpkins themselves begin to show, my boys can pick one or two each to take care of as their own special project. Teaches them responsibility and how to care for your environment.

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Been obsessed with Batman: Arkham Asylum recently and have been playing it religious. I beat the game (on easy mode so far) and am now just doing the side missions and picking up the rest of the Riddler’s riddles and also other tiny challenges that unlock for you as you go along. Once done, I’ll try and beat it again in normal mode.

The sequel is coming out this year last I heard, so my wife and I are eager for that as she is just as hooked on the game as I am. Today, she beat the game in normal mode so she’s got one up on me in that department, I suppose. Then again, she’s always been a hardcore gamer whereas, though I used to play Nintendo and N64 a lot as a kid, I’ve been out of the video game scene for the past dozen years or so. I sound like an old-timer here but, man, yeah, they’ve changed a lot. Almost like controlling real life now instead of blocky 3D items that still looked like cartoons.

Speaking of video games, Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions is also coming out this year so that’s another one that’s on my must-buy list. Comes out September, I think? Somewhere around there.

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Back in book news, since the last issue I’ve done two book signings with my third to be done this Friday (June 18), all of them in an effort to promote Zombie Fight Night. I’ve also tugged along to each outing a giant zombie vs werewolf cut-out, life-sized, where you can step in behind it, stick your head through the holes above each character’s shoulders, and get your picture taken. This thing generates a lot of buzz around the mall, I can tell you that much.

Not sure how many more signings I’ll do for Zombie Fight Night. We’ll see, though I would like to set up another with one or both of my local Chapters stores.

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Lastly, after reading and editing Magic Man Plus 14 Tales of Terror, my eyes were really opened to something about my writing that I knew about but perhaps, on some level, didn’t accept.

See, ever since I began putting words to paper, my work has consisted of a similar theme throughout each story, most of them containing a certain kind of character and situation. For those who have read most of my stuff, it’s probably been apparent to you. For those who haven’t, well, I won’t spoil it, but yesterday I made the decision to make a change in my work, one that’s hopefully for the better. So though that old theme might recur now and then, it certainly won’t be as prominent as it has been for the past 10 or so years.

I do, however, want to thank you all for reading my work. There’s great pleasure in knowing that what a writer creates has made its way into readers’ hands and has been received positively overall. So again, thank you. Truly.

- A.P. Fuchs
Winnipeg, MB
June 17, 2010

To make way for the upcoming Gallery Books (an imprint of Simon & Schuster) reprint–with AMAZING new cover art–of The War of the Worlds Plus Blood, Guts and Zombies by H.G. Wells and Eric S. Brown, the Coscom Entertainment edition has to retire, which means this first edition of this aliens vs zombies undead extravaganza won’t be around for much longer.

This is your last chance to pick up a copy, and we at Coscom Entertainment have no doubt this first edition will become a book you’ll treasure for years to come.

Thanks in advance to those who’ve already snagged theirs throughout the book’s run. If you haven’t, please do so now before no more copies of the first edition are available.

Paperback:

Amazon.com
Amazon.ca
Amazon.co.uk
Barnes and Noble

eBook:

Amazon Kindle
Fictionwise.com

The story:

The invasion begins . . . and the dead start to rise.

There’s panic in the streets of London as invaders from Mars wreak havoc on the living, slaying the populace with Heat-Rays and poisonous clouds of black smoke. Humanity struggles to survive against technology far beyond its own, meeting fear and death at every turn.

But that’s not the only struggle mankind must face. The dead are rising from their graves with an insatiable hunger for human flesh. Friends, neighbours and loved ones lost to the war of the worlds are now the enemy and the Earth is forever changed.

It’s kill or be killed, if you want to survive, otherwise you might become one of the walking dead yourself.

The last Coscom Entertainment release: Bigfoot War by Eric S. Brown

For our full list of books, please see: www.coscomentertainment.com

Canister X Newsletter Vol. 1, No. 2

May 2010

Starting this issue from the road. It’s Tuesday and I just had my first weekend off in a month or so. Even did a bit of administration work Sunday night.

Work has resumed on the second book in The Undead World Trilogy. It’s called Possession of the Dead and takes place right where Blood of the Dead left off. This book has been a long-time coming as normally I’m not this slow between installments in a series. Even my Axiom-man stuff has fallen behind. Last installment in that series came out in August of 2008. Blood of the Dead was end of July. Of course those following my endeavors online know I haven’t been doing nothing. I’ve spent the past 1.75 years growing Coscom Entertainment as a company, bringing loads of books to market. Just recently we signed on with Simon and Schuster to reprint The War of the Worlds Plus Blood, Guts and Zombies by H.G. Wells and Eric S. Brown, and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Zombie Jim by Mark Twain and W. Bill Czolgosz. As I type this, we have another mass market deal near finalized for another one of the mash ups. I also have some stuff cooking behind-the-scenes regarding my personal work.

Definitely a season of change and I’m honored to help play a part in growing a few authors’ careers. I hope I’m able to do more for others on the Coscom Entertainment list as the days go by.

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Finished reading Alec: The Years Have Pants by Eddie Campbell not too long ago. Though this isn’t my formal review (which will be posted at CanisterX.com), this definitely falls into the recommended reading category, especially if you’re an artist, regardless of your craft.

Alec: The Years Have Pants is Eddie Campbell’s autobiographical comic book series, for those who don’t know, in which he’s basically given us an overview of his career starting from childhood drawing habits, to how he became a full time comic book artist, to the present day in a giant 640-page graphic novel that, all told, took around 30 years to write and draw. (The pieces within were done here and there since he started this thing back in the ’80s.)

What’s so interesting, and what I found particularly engrossing about Eddie’s narrative, was that I was able to relate to nearly all of it on a personal level, his struggle to becoming a fulltime artist similar to my own in a lot of ways, right down to trying to work at home in addition to your fulltime job with kids bothering you every ten seconds. Also what’s it like to working a dumb job you hate, getting the privilege of being a fulltime artist then, for one reason or another, having to go back to a dumb job again so you could have food on the table.

Very awesome read and wholeheartedly recommended.

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Spent a good chunk of today (the 6th) with Sean Simmans. He’s the artist of Axiom-man: Of Magic and Men, Zombifrieze, and the cover artist of a host of Coscom Entertainment releases: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Zombie Jim (along with interiors), Alice in Zombieland, Anna Karnivora (along with interiors), Bits of the Dead, Emma and the Werewolves, Revolt of the Dead, R.I.P., Robin Hood and Friar Tuck: Zombie Killers, The Undead World of Oz, Vicious Verses and Reanimated Rhymes: Zany Zombie Poetry for the Undead Head, and the classic books Coscom Entertainment presently has out: Dracula, The Invisible Man, and The War of the Worlds. He also did interior illustrations for those last three.

Last night (the 5th) Sean, Bill Czolgosz and me did coffee at a coffee/gasoline shop called Damar in Melfort, SK. We walked in through the main door via the gas shop and I didn’t really know what to expect. You see, I don’t go out for coffee at gas shops. We don’t do that in Winnipeg. Yet upon entering it turns out you go past the counter and the next thing you know you’re in a quaint coffee/food establishment with dim lighting, comfy booths and chairs and a very gentle ambiance of other enthusiastic coffee-goers. We stayed there, drank some java, went over some business, talked comics, writing and publishing, then Sean drove me back to my motel.

This afternoon (the 6th), Sean and I took care of some business-related stuff in the morning then got together later in the afternoon for burgers, smokies and hot dogs. He cooked. I watched. He gave me beer. I drank it. My kids played on his trampoline. When I suggested he and I go on it, he shot me down quick. Probably a good idea. Sean’s one of those burly guys who you wouldn’t want landing on you.

I visited his art studio at the top floor of his house. He just moved in there so the room was still under construction. Still cool to see the ol’ drawing board and all that. And it’s literally a drawing board. Looks like a homemade cutting board, actually, but it suits him just fine. Hasn’t used a drafting table in a long time, he said. Me, I need my drafting table. Helps me see what I’m doing more dead-on than me hovering over it on a desk.

The next time I’ll see Simmans will be, hopefully, for Central Canada Comic Con at the end of October 2010. You’ll find us there peddling our stuff and other Coscom Entertainment books. Good time to get a signature from either of us, or both.

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While away I also had the opportunity to drop in on Justin Shauf, the fellow who does the pencils and inks for the Axiom-man covers. He and his wife just had a baby two days prior and had taken the kid home just that Friday morning, some 6 or 7 hours prior to us arriving there. Was pleasant, had some coffee, visited for an hour and half/two hours while my kids played with his, then my family and I hit the road again.

I’m hoping Justin can come out to Central Canada Comic Con as well so he can sign Axiom-man books and posters.

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Remember that thing last month about switching financial institutions because my previous bank (Bank A) screwed me? Well, the switch wasn’t a good idea. Not my fault, but this new bank (Bank B) needed paperwork that I didn’t have, so when I contacted the people who could provide it for me, it turned out they mailed the forms to my old address instead of my new one (from two years ago) and I would have to redo this particular form and send it in via snail mail. (For you young ’uns reading this, “snail mail” is the ancient art of printing out a piece of paper on your printer; putting it in an envelope; writing your address in one corner of the envelope and putting the particulars of who you’re sending it to in the middle of it; putting a stamp on that envelope and entrusting it to Postman Pat who has the uncanny ability to roam everyone’s neighborhood the world over. You can even see him at the Post Office even though you just passed him on the street while driving there. The envelope—now a letter—is sent by vehicle or plane to the destination written upon it to be opened by the receiving party at a later date. Harumph.) Anyway, finally got all that done. Turns out there was a crazy huge fee associated with the account at Bank B—something unbeknownst to me and not told to me when I opened it, a fee apparently only applicable to this institution, which was later confessed to—forcing me to close it and go back to my previous account which was still open. So I had a couple checks made up by the teller: one in CAD funds, the other in US funds; they had to use checks because their guaranteed draft machine wasn’t working. Took one check to Bank C upon which I found out I had to wait 7 business days for it to clear. Took the other check to Bank A which I wanted to leave in the first place only to find out they wouldn’t cash the check because the check didn’t designate it was in US funds (though drawn from a US account number). It was too late in the day for me to go back to Bank B so I instead left a fiery message on my account manager’s machine. Went there the following morning. Turns out they can’t write US checks—in terms of labeling them as such—because they don’t have blank checks labeled like that. Got a guaranteed bank draft instead, a couple gift certificates for my inconvenience, then it was back to Bank A. I gave the teller the draft. Was told there could be up to a 12-hour hold, which is apparently standard. Fine. I go to cash another check and she wanted to put a hold on it for 45 days even though I’ve been cashing checks in that account from that same source for nearly 6 years. Talked her into not putting a hold it, carefully explaining a portion of the funds in question contained my mortgage and car payment, food money, etc., and I had a family that was counting on me to deliver the goods and what was I supposed to do if I couldn’t get my cash?

It worked out in the end, but I’m still waiting for that 7-day hold previously mentioned to be over. I’ve been chasing the same money for nearly a month and it seems if I’d just let bygones be bygones from the beginning, I would’ve been waiting around the same amount of time for the funds to clear.

Except I wouldn’t have any gift certificates.

And those are a good thing.

- A.P. Fuchs
Winnipeg, MB

Coscom Entertainment is pleased to announce that Simon and Schuster’s Gallery Books imprint (formerly Pocket Books) has acquired the rights to reprint two of its mashup novels, The War of the Worlds Plus Blood, Guts and Zombies by H.G. Wells and Eric S. Brown, as well as Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Zombie Jim by Mark Twain and W. Bill Czolgosz.

We’re thrilled as a company to be a part of this deal as well as having the wonderful opportunity to co-brand these titles with Gallery Books.

“This is just awesome and so far everything has been great between myself, Gallery and my agent behind-the-scenes. It’s exciting because this isn’t just about reprinting a couple of books with them. This is an opportunity to now let Coscom Entertainment have a foot in the mass market scene, and I’m eager to see where the success of these upcoming books takes my writers and the company as a whole,” says Coscom Entertainment Publisher A.P. Fuchs.

Here’s to the future, and a special congrats to the authors involved. Likewise, a public thank you to Coscom’s agent, Evan Gregory of the Ethan Ellenberg Literary Agency of New York, for arranging the deal.

(As a side note, the current editions of these books will be going out of print in the next few months so if you’re a collector, now would be a good time to snag one of the original Coscom Entertainment editions while they’re still available. Thanks.)

Here is a comprehensive list of classic book mash-ups and/or books utilizing classic characters or known people in a mash-up sort of way.

This is made for the completist:

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Zombie Jim by Mark Twain and W. Bill Czolgosz

Alice in Zombieland by Lewis Carroll and Nickolas Cook

Android Karenina by Ben H. Winters

Emma and the Werewolves by Jane Austen and Adam Rann

Hound: The Curse of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Lorne Dixon

I am Scrooge: A Zombie Story for Christmas by Adam Roberts

Jane Bites Back: A Novel by Michael Thomas Ford

Jane Slayre by Charlotte Bronte and Sherri Browning Erwin

Little Vampire Women by Louisa May Alcott and Lynn Messina

Little Women and Werewolves by Louisa May Alcott and Porter Grand

Mansfield Park and Mummies: Monster Mayhem, Matrimony, Ancient Curses, True Love, and Other Dire Delights by Jane Austen and Vera Nazarian

Mr. Darcy, Vampyre by Amanda Grange

Paul Is Undead by Alan Goldsher

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls by Steve Hockensmith

Queen Victoria: Demon Hunter by A.E. Moorat

Robin Hood and Friar Tuck: Zombie Killers by Paul A. Freeman

Romeo & Juliet & Vampires by William Shakespeare and Claudia Gabel

Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters by Jane Austen and Ben H. Winters

Shatnerquake by Jeff Burk

Star Wars: Death Troopers by Joe Schreiber

The Undead World of Oz by L. Frank Baum and Ryan C. Thomas

The War of the Worlds Plus Blood, Guts and Zombies by H.G. Wells and Eric S. Brown

Vampire Darcy’s Desire: A Pride and Prejudice Adaptation by Regina Jeffers

Cover to Eric S. Brown's adaptation of H.G. Wells's famous novel.

The War of the Worlds Plus Blood, Guts and Zombies by H.G. Wells and Eric S. Brown is now available at the following on-line retailers:

Paperback:

Amazon.com
Amazon.ca
Amazon.co.uk
Barnes and Noble

The story:

The invasion begins . . . and the dead start to rise.

There’s panic in the streets of London as invaders from Mars wreak havoc on the living, slaying the populace with Heat-Rays and poisonous clouds of black smoke. Humanity struggles to survive against technology far beyond its own, meeting fear and death at every turn.

But that’s not the only struggle mankind must face. The dead are rising from their graves with an insatiable hunger for human flesh. Friends, neighbours and loved ones lost to the war of the worlds are now the enemy and the Earth is forever changed.

It’s kill or be killed, if you want to survive, otherwise you might become one of the walking dead yourself.