Award-winning author Rhiannon Frater delves deep into the vampire mythos in her new short story collection featuring the beautiful, but deadly undead. Spanning a hundred years and a diverse cast of characters, Rhiannon explores the themes of loneliness, revenge, blood and love in seven tales. How far will the bloodthirsty vampires go to find love, revenge, and family? Discover the truth in Love & Blood and Other Vampire Tales.

Josh Rondell is twelve years old and known as the "living dead boy" due to his rampant love of all things zombie. As the head of the Zombie Hunters Club, he's obsessed with preparing for the zombocalypse. Though no one around him really believes that zombies will one day rise to devour the living, Josh is convinced it just might happen. When zombies do shamble into his schoolyard, Josh finds himself the leader of the dwindling band of zombie hunters, and he is charged with protecting them all. Josh's baby brother, his closest friends, and the love of his young life try to survive as the...

From the depths of the darkest waters of the ocean to the eternal darkness of space, Rhiannon Frater crafts taunt tales of terror to enthrall avid readers of the genre. Each short story explores a different type of monster from the shambling undead to devourers of worlds. In Cthulhu's Daughter explore madness and terror as a young woman's mind slowly unravels as a hurricane bears down on her hometown. Step back in time to witness one man's flight from the ravages of war only to encounter a pack of werewolves in Fleeing and slink through the shadows of a mansion where an archaeologist obsesses...

""I need to say this: I didn't technically kill him. I had a choice; close the door and move forward or keep the door open giving the two-timing son-of-a-bitch a chance to make it. Since the horde was behind him and he had a limp, I made my decision, I stuck to it, and I have no regrets. Sure, it was made easier since a day earlier he'd left me at the altar, and later I found out he'd been sleeping with my sister. Do I blame her? No, we're even, I left her outside of the car as I sped away from the first group of flesh eating brain dead. ""
Maddison Montgomery is not your typical...

In the zombie apocalypse, no one is safe. Not even children. That's what twelve-year-old Josh and his friends in the Zombie Hunters Club discovered when the undead invaded their school in The Living Dead Boy. Now, Josh and the remaining Zombie Hunters are stuck on a city bus traveling across zombie-infested Texas. With fires burning on the horizon, mass evacuations underway, zombies roaming the countryside, and in-fighting among the adults on the bus creating tension, Josh has never felt so helpless. Despite his father's insistence that the adults can handle the situation, Josh knows far too...