Cliff Murray was four years old when his mother loaded her four children in the Plymouth Belvedere and took them all to the drive-in to see the original Night of the Living Dead. In college, Cliff and his friends rarely missed a chance to see Dawn of the Dead at the midnight movies, always laughing at the cheesy special effects, especially the exploding head and fluorescent blood. Still, he never expected to end up writing a zombie novel himself, until Zombie Apocalypse Now infected his brain. Cliff was born in Orange, Texas, in the southeast part of the state, and lived in the Dallas area for...