Empty Graves
Tales of the Living Dead
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- $10.99
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
From the New York Times–bestselling author of V-Wars, sixteen horror stories "written with great verve . . . for die hard zombie fans" (Publishers Weekly).
Bram Stoker Award winner Jonathan Maberry is a master of the zombie tale. Empty Graves: Tales of the Living Dead is emotionally charged and disturbing. These stories range across the genres of horror, science fiction, and biological thriller without ever straying from the fascinating humanity at the core.
Together in a single action-packed collection, these sixteen gritty tales of the living dead span Maberr's career, including an exclusive never-before-published short story.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The 16 horror stories in this repetitive collection from Stoker Award winner Maberry (Rot and Ruin) are written with great verve but too often suffer from a sameness of theme and incident. The majority are set in postapocalyptic milieus menaced by George Romero–style zombies and struck from the same narrative template: human characters first intuit that something inexplicable has upended the world, then spend the rest of the story fending off onslaughts of flesh-eating members of the living dead. Maberry is at his best when he deviates from this formula, as in "Calling Death," an eerie tale steeped in rural folk legend; "A Small Taste of the Old Country," about the weird fate meted out to Nazis hiding in Argentina; and "Son of the Devil," a tale of frontier justice with an EC Horror Comics vibe. Though several of the tales stand well on their own, their clustering reduces their potency and capacity for surprises. This is best suited for die-hard zombie fans.
