Happy Hour of the Damned »

Mark Henry recently traded a career in the helping profession to scar minds with his fiction. He attributes his ideas to premature exposure to horror movies, and/or witnessing adult cocktail parties in the '70s. He's been further formed by surviving earthquakes, typhoons, and two volcanic eruptions. Happy Hour Of The Damned is his first novel. He, surprisingly, lives and breathes today in the Pacific Northwest with his wife and two dogs. Readers can visit his website at— www.markhenry.us.

Alive, ad exec Amanda Feral worked hard to wring enjoyment out of her days. Now that she's a zombie, it's a different story. Turns out, Seattle is home to glamorous undead of every description, and Amanda—stylish and impeccably groomed even in the afterlife—is swigging cocktails and living large (so to speak) among its elite. But there are downsides. Not being able to stomach anything except alcohol and human flesh, for instance. And the fact that someone is targeting Seattle's otherworldly inhabitants for their own sinister reasons.

Preying on the undead is seriously uncool. The only option is for Amanda and her zombie BFF Wendy and gorgeous gay vampire pal Gil to unearth the culprit among the legions of Seattle's bloodsuckers, shapeshifters, reapers, succubi, and demons—before they all meet a fate a lot worse than death. . .

"Worth a read; priceless, really. Road Trip of the Living Dead can't come soon enough."—Urban Fantasy Land

Jackie Cassada

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An unexpected encounter with a man whose breath turns her into a flesh-eating zombie marks Amanda Feral's induction into Seattle's secret supernatural community, obsessed with designer clothes, trendy clubs-and strange disappearances. When one of Amanda's undead friends vanishes, she, along with fellow zombie Wendy and vampire friend Gil, uncovers plot that threatens to consume the city's walking dead. Henry's first novel is not for the squeamish or for readers uncomfortable with graphic sex, and the proliferation of frivolous footnotes detracts from the otherwise fast-paced action. Fans of splatter fiction and visceral horror laced with the perceptions of a fashionista seem to be the primary target for this eccentric urban fantasy.