Guest Blogger: James M. Tabor I know that vampires and werewolves and zombies—oh my!—are all the rage now, but I’ve never felt the need to step over the line from reality to fantasy, or wherever those things live. Reality is plenty fantastic in its own right, as the real events …
Guest Blogger: Jonathan Maberry DUST & DECAY (Simon & Schuster) is the second in my series of post-apocalyptic thrillers set fifteen years after a zombie plague has wiped out most of mankind. Okay…if you’re still reading this then you haven’t been scared off by words like ‘post-apocalyptic’ and ‘zombie’. Good …
For WANTED UNDEAD OR ALIVE, we interviewed tons of experts about the struggle of good vs evil in film, comics, pop culture, world myth, literature, and the real world. Here’s what some of them have to say about which monsters in film or mythology touched their hearts. DOUG SCHOONER—King Kong …
Guest Blogger: Eric S Brown Around ten years ago, I picked up the pen for the first time as a serious writer. Back in those days, zombies weren’t the icon of pop culture they are today. Zombies were a hard sale. At one point, I was even banned from submitting …
Guest Bogger: Christopher Golden I don’t worry about labels. Never really have. And I try to pass on that disregard for labels to my children. Let’s face it, we put people into categories in our minds and sometimes we even speak those labels aloud. In school, it’s done by students …
Guest Blogger: Joe McKinney Zombies are the monster world’s equivalent of a good pair of blue jeans: they go well with just about anything. In recent years, they’ve gone up against everybody from the police and the military to superheroes, the cast of Star Wars, vampires and unicorns. They’ve even …
Guest Blogger: Weston Ochse I’ve been a horror author for about 12 years now. I never started out to be a horror author, but once I started being published, that’s what people started to call me. Which was cool. As long as there’s the word author at the end the …
Guest Blogger: Sophie Littlefield Thanks for having me, Janice! I am so intrigued by the work you and Jonathan Maberry do in your book (WANTED UNDEAD OR ALIVE), where you examine the age-old good versus evil theme in fiction. I’ve thought a lot about the concept of evil in monsters. …
