With a fresh literary voice and an otherworldly perspective, M. Frederic Jennings has splashed into the horror genre of contemporary fiction with his latest blood soaked tome, "And the Dead Shall Rise." Udo Henkman is a man who has made his way to heaven, only to forlornly discover, his family hasn't. So what went wrong? Try the fact that after Udo's early exit from the earthly realm, his wife and son rebel against the Lord they all use to worship together and plunge into sinful waywardness. His youngest, a little girl and the apple of Udo's eye, hasn't yet, but as with the rest of the...

Throughout his young life, Evan Ellis has been sporadically bothered by and involved with spirits or beings from the spiritual realm, as well as having traveled there himself and to other strange dimensions while both awake and asleep. Up until the opening of our tale, he has wondered about it all, of course, feeling mostly like the innocent victim he has been. However, as the culmination of his most recent spiritual misadventure, trying to rescue his father's soul from demons bent on taking it to their master, our eighteen-year-old hero is left unconscious at the scene of this battle along...

A civil war survivor from the south, Eli Barlow, becomes a bounty hunter, a fairly common occurrence in those days, and rides then too, as also commonly occurred, into the wild west where all the bounties are. Not long after, common stops happening to Eli as he gets ambushed by one such bounty and bullet in leg, he floats down river and rapid to get away. He not only survives the rough water trip, but then also is deposited in a small mountain lake near Green River, Wyoming. There a newly arrived church of snake handlers is holding baptisms, however, and one of the serpents infused with the...