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marimoose's review
4.0
Nothing shameless about writing a review of a book I read which happens to have something I wrote, right? Of course not!
Anyway, Return of the Dead Men (and Women) Walking is an assortment of tales of the undead, from zombies to vampires to necromancers to the crazy people living at the time of the Apocalypse. Some stories made me laugh, others disturbed me (which I believe is also an important invocation for a book in horror), and on occasion, one or two even made me feel both!
So yeah, a few personal favorites (though, again, all of them are really good):
"Bring Me the Head of Pepe Cortez!" by J. Tanner - Really great starter, set in the Wild West, starring a kid looking for a horse. Let me assure you, things escalate from there, and there were a number of brilliant nuggets in the short story that made me laugh a great deal.
"For All Your Carpeting Needs" by Matthew D. Johnson - The beginning won me over. The setting was mundane suburbia except there was absolutely nothing mundane about a dead body on a carpet. William and Edna made for an adorable duo.
"Fixing Nancy" by Jonathan Templar - Okay. I am a sucker for industrial Victoriana and clockwork. This story had the feel for both. Naturally, I loved it. And I'm still not sure whether I am horrified at the doctor's methods or humored at his insanity. Either way, it was fab stuff.
"The Body in the Water" by Oh Look At That! - What? I can't dote on this one?! Pshaw. What can go wrong with paranoid sailors and semi-sentient zombies? A lot, actually, but who's checking these things?
Anyway, Return of the Dead Men (and Women) Walking is an assortment of tales of the undead, from zombies to vampires to necromancers to the crazy people living at the time of the Apocalypse. Some stories made me laugh, others disturbed me (which I believe is also an important invocation for a book in horror), and on occasion, one or two even made me feel both!
So yeah, a few personal favorites (though, again, all of them are really good):
"Bring Me the Head of Pepe Cortez!" by J. Tanner - Really great starter, set in the Wild West, starring a kid looking for a horse. Let me assure you, things escalate from there, and there were a number of brilliant nuggets in the short story that made me laugh a great deal.
"For All Your Carpeting Needs" by Matthew D. Johnson - The beginning won me over. The setting was mundane suburbia except there was absolutely nothing mundane about a dead body on a carpet. William and Edna made for an adorable duo.
"Fixing Nancy" by Jonathan Templar - Okay. I am a sucker for industrial Victoriana and clockwork. This story had the feel for both. Naturally, I loved it. And I'm still not sure whether I am horrified at the doctor's methods or humored at his insanity. Either way, it was fab stuff.
"The Body in the Water" by Oh Look At That! - What? I can't dote on this one?! Pshaw. What can go wrong with paranoid sailors and semi-sentient zombies? A lot, actually, but who's checking these things?
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