Recently I started going through the FearNet gift buying guide, looking for more Zombie-related products to review or at least discuss here for the site, and came across one seemingly tailor made for today’s particular holiday:

Vampire romance is so last century. Zombie romance – now that is a sub-sub-genre. This anthology collects 21 stories from authors like Gina McQueen, Brian Keene, Stacy Brown, Jan Kozlowki, and more. Zombie sex slaves, zombie hunting as foreplay, and “mixed mortality” couples are just some of the themes touched upon.

It doesn’t sound too appealing from that description, but the Amazon reviews were much more promising:

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.

Obviously we’re not going to like the ‘Killing Zombies as some sick courtship ritual’ stories but some of the others sound really, really promising. I think I’ll have to pick this one up for us to review.

Tags: Books

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