Authors: Lori Perkins
ISBN-13: 9780312650797, ISBN-10: 0312650795
Format: Paperback
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Date Published: September 2010
Edition: First Edition
LORI PERKINS is the Editorial Director of Ravenousromance.com, and president of L. Perkins Agency, a New York literary agency that specializes in horror, science fiction, fantasy, erotica and pop culture. She is the author of four nonfiction books and has edited a dozen anthologies.
Romance ain't dead...it's undead. In this thrilling zombie anthology, horror fans will finally get their fill of zombie-on-zombie action, zombie-human love, and zombie smut. Because why should vampires have all the fun?
This collection of never-before-published tales includes:
"Revanants Anonymous" by Francesca Lia Block: two zombies meet at a Revanants Anonymous meeting and when sparks fly they wonder how "dead" they really are
"I Heart Brains" by Jaime Saare: a widow and a dead man get a second chance at love
"Captive Hearts" by Brian Keene: zombie plagues can't stop a woman from caring for the man she loves
"Everyone I Love is Dead" by Elizabeth Coldwell: what happens when your true love comes back from the deadafter you've already moved on with a new man?
"Last Times at Ridgemont High" by Kilt Kilpatrick: an electrifying zombie romp
and many more!
Perkins (Cowboy Lover) collects 21 zombie romance stories full of humor, horror, and love. Jaime Saare's "I Heart Brains" has an SF twist: a man infected with "the z-virus" shopping in a megamart for a gently used replacement body. In Jan Kozlowski's powerful "First Love Never Dies," a police detective learns of an undead sex slave operation run by his ex's abusive father. In Regina Riley's poignant "Undying Love," a long-suffering zombie seeks his lost lover. Gina McQueen's "Apocalypse as Foreplay," Jeanine McAdam's "Inhuman Resources," and Dana Fredsti's "First Date" are zippy stories about the sexy turn-on of successful zombie hunting. Stacy Brown's "The Magician's Apprentice" offers chills as a woman willingly gives up every bit of herself to please a man. Michael Marshall Smith's "Later" makes one man's heartbreak palpable when his girlfriend has a fatal accident. Voodoo magic, zombie-creating viruses, and inexplicable zombie apocalypses all make appearances, but effective storytelling moves beyond the reanimation and into the hearts and minds of the characters. (Oct.)