The year is 1816, in Northamptonshire. A red, spiderwebbed haze covers the sun. Temperatures drop, fields flood and freeze, grain rots on the stem. The people are starving, and even the wealthy and titled are affected by shortages. Sickness spreads as a red fungus overtakes fields, seals over windows, and infiltrates cellars.On the way back from the Napoleonic Wars in France, Marcus, the younger son of the Earl of Penderbrook, returns to find his brother dead, the estate covered in fungus, and his father sinking into madness.The last thing Marcus wants to do is be responsible for Penderbook; he wants only to spend the rest of his life playing cards, drinking, and seducing other men's wives. But even the responsible life of an heir escapes from his grasp, as his brother's body disappears, his father turns violent, and pale monsters horrify the countryside.As Marcus pieces together the truth, he discovers a past more tainted with evil than he could have suspected.From the family wine cellar to the folly behind the house-from the pond where he played as a child to the new cotton mill built along the stream-None of what happens at Penderbrook is innocent.And the monstrosities that have been committed may still be carried in Marcus's blood?
The real story behind Through the Looking-Glass... It was a Britain that had been overrun by a plague of zombies. A Britain that had fought the zombies, not quite won, and yet declared victory. The rabid dead had been mercifully put down. The less virulently infected were treated with a sort of fungal "tea" that kept their urges to eat their fellow men at bay. With a bit of effort and discipline, one of the Infected could be right as rain. Oxford don and reluctant member of the undead Charles Dodgson has been banished from the Liddell household at the behest of Dean Henry Liddell's wife, and forbidden the presence of her daughters. Dark accusations against Dodgson abound, fostered by their mother. But years have passed, the girls have grown, and Mrs. Dodgson orders the girls to have their photographs taken-to display themselves on the marriage market-by one of the premier photographers of the time. None other than Charles Dodgson, also known as Lewis Carroll. But Alice does not wish to make things up with her old mentor; she does not wish to be put on the marriage market. What she wishes to is marry her childhood friend, Prince Leopold. But the Queen does not approve. All, however, may be moot, as the plague of the Infected once again rises, this time in a more virulent form, and carries away everything before it, like a flood. A tale of gaslamps, dark fantasy, and gothic horror delights. Part 2 of Alice's Adventures in Underland. Part 1 is Alice's Adventures in Underland: The Queen of Stilled Hearts.
A string of grisly murders and missing persons cases puts a young police officer at risk of becoming food for worms in "Lot's Crawlers" by Joel V. Kela, the featured story in the Winter 2012 issue of Big Pulp (cover art by Ken Knudtsen). This issue also features Michael Andre-Druissi's alternative history "Hitler's Hollywood," in which Rita Hayworth's career takes a strange turn and alters the course of WWII, and "Children of an Angry Sea," a horror tale set in the aftermath of a major Pacific tsunami, by Michael D. Turner. In all, this issue features more than 25 stories and poems, including work by Patricia La Barbera, David Birch, KJ Hannah Greenberg, L.B. Sedlacek, William Doreski, Gerri Leen, Terrie Leigh Relf, Brian Trent, Walter Giersbach, Emanuele Pettener, DeAnna Knippling, F.J. Bergmann, Sean McGrath, Benjamin Kensey, David C. Kopaska-Merkel, Holger Nahm, Catherine Boyle, Tony Haynes, and Frank Skolnik.
One little girl. Buffalo-demons stampede out of the earth to steal one little half-blood girl, and everything changes. Aloysius's little brother Jerome goes missing with her--two inseparable kids whose friendship is damned from the beginning--as demons replace the newly dead. A priest with a tainted Bible. A brother with a taste for blood and demon flesh. A fool with a passion for the machinery of Hell. Only Aloysius and his brothers can see the transformation--and there's not a damned thing they can do about it. Then Jerome returns: he has found a way down into the demons' Hell, where they twist the little girl's tortured dreams into a paradise of their own, a place to escape the demons who, in turn, haunt them.
Zombie crime fighters, politicians, soldiers, rescuers-but a Zombie prom date or bowler? If you're looking for Zombies, prepare to be ZOMBIEFIED! Two dozen amazing zombie stories sure to breathe life back into the Undead. If you're looking for stories that shamble, groan, and eat brains, you're sure to become ZOMBIEFIED. Stories by: Dayton Ward M.H Bonham Gary Jonas David Lee Summers Carol Hightshoe Laura Givens Rie Sheridan Rose Lou Antonelli John Lance And Many More!
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