L. C. Mortimer

Zombies never stay dead. Winter Hawk is on day three of a five-day cruise when the zombie infection decides to make its appearance. She's seen her share of bad days, but nothing compares to the fact that the people around Winter are dying and coming back to life in droves. Winter has to get off of the cruise ship and away from the infection, no matter what it takes. Armed with a first aid kit, a couple of water bottles, and a few unlikely companions, she embarks on a journey that will change everything. If she can manage to survive.

Wild Undead

Year Two

Hybrid Academy

Fans of Harry Potter, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Supernatural - get ready to dive into a world where magic is powerful, clever witches rule the world, and vampires lurk in the darkness.It was an otherwise normal Tuesday when I found out that I'm not alone in the universe.At 2:05, my grandmother vanished, taken by vampires I didn't know existed.At 3:30, my aunt showed up to explain how the world really operates.By 5:00, I was on my way to Hybrid Academy: a school for people like me.At 7:30, I was walking into my dorm for the first time and discovered that Hybrid Academy isn't so unlike high school. There are the popular witches, the dreamy warlocks, the shy magicians, and yes, even the shifters.Hi.I'm Max.And this is my story.

Hybrid Academy: Year One

Fans of Harry Potter, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Supernatural - get ready to dive into a world where magic is powerful, clever witches rule the world, and vampires lurk in the darkness. It was an otherwise normal Tuesday when I found out that I'm not alone in the universe. At 2:05, my grandmother vanished, taken by vampires I didn't know existed. At 3:30, my aunt showed up to explain how the world really operates. By 5:00, I was on my way to Hybrid Academy: a school for people like me. At 7:30, I was walking into my dorm for the first time and discovered that Hybrid Academy isn't so unlike high school. There are the popular witches, the dreamy warlocks, the shy magicians, and yes, even the shifters. Hi. I'm Max. And this is my story.

Year One

Jonathan Maberry

Josh Roberts

Stephen Graham Jones

James A. Moore

Brian Keene

Joe R. Lansdale

Rena Mason

Jonathan Janz

Allison Pang

Wile E. Young

Mary SanGiovanni

Hailey Piper

Mike Oliveri

Steven L. Shrewsbury

Justin C. Key

Heath Amodio

Glenn Parris

Scott Schmidt

JimmyZ Johnston

Charles R. Rutledge

Aaron Conaway

It was an age of adventure.An age of sorcery.An age of unrelenting horror.Sword and sorcery and pulp horror go hand-in-hand. Sinister enchanters working foul magic. Hideous beasts lurking in shadowy dungeons. Blasphemous elder gods uncoiling from forgotten and forbidden templesSWORDS IN THE SHADOWS features twenty-one stories with a bloody stake driven into the heart of both the horror and fantasy camps. Herein, you will find fantasy worlds, brave warriors, fabulous creatures, wondrous magic. But you will also uncover bloodcurdling chills, spine-tingling horror, and an examination of those things that truly terrify.

Swords in the Shadows

Boarding schools aren't for the faint of heart.Neither are fairy tales.Orphaned at a young age, stuck in the foster care system, thrown into a new, magical school where I'm the only ordinary human? My life has been the epitome of "difficult." It's been the very definition of strange. I didn't expect to start the year at an enchanted academy full of magical beings or fairytale creatures, but that's exactly where I find myself in the middle of September.My new school has all the usual players.There's Snow White: Queen of Everything. She's the most popular girl in school, but she's got a dark side.There's the Beast: the jock who can't lose, but who also can't seem to catch a break when it comes to love.Then there's me.I'm no one special.In fact, I'm not from a fairy tale and I don't have any special powers or skills. I'm just a kid who won a scholarship to the weirdest school in town. I'm just trying to keep my head down, mind my own business, and stay out of the drama.But then Belle disappears, and all hell breaks loose.

The Beauty

Episode 1:The zombie apocalypse? Like that could ever happen. Alice wakes up on the roof one day to find the world on fire. Everything's burning, and what isn't burning is coming back from the dead. Zombies. Trapped on top of their apartment building, Alice, Mark, and Kyle must work together to find their way out of the city and to safety. Can they do it? Episode 2:Alice, Mark, and Kyle don't have much going for them. The dead have come back to life and the unlikely trio isn't sure what to do now. Their college degrees and job skills are useless in this new, broken world where survival is all that matters. They have to find shelter. Food. Water. Most of all, they need something to live for. Episode 3:When their safe house turns out to be anything but, Mark, Alice, and Kyle decide to go on the run once more. They're looking for hope, but they only find desperation. Mark fights his night terrors with the only thing that keeps him calm. Alice wonders if she'll ever be able to get past her brother's death. What can she do when every Infected reminds her of him? Kyle struggles to breathe as his stress levels increase. With each passing hour, he wonders how much longer he can really survive the end of the world. With each passing hour, he wonders if he wants to. Episode 4:Alice, Mark, and Kyle expected to find a lot of things in their new town: Fear. Hunger. The undead. None of them expected to find Torrance, though. Can they trust the feisty redhead who seems to know her way around town? Do they want to? Author's note:Just Another Day in the Zombie Apocalypse is an episodic serial and should be read in order. Each episode ends in a cliffhanger and leads directly into the next story.

Just Another Day in the Zombie Apocalypse: Episodes 1-4

L. C. Mortimer

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