It's Halloween in the small suburban town of Wakefield, Massachusetts. While parents take their children trick-or-treating, and others throw costume parties, a swarm of meteorites enter the atmosphere and crash to the Earth below. Inside the meteorites are small parasitic worms, no larger than maggots. The worms quickly infect the corpses at a local cemetery and so begins the rise of the undead. The walking dead soon get the upper hand, with no one believing the truth . . . that the dead now walk. Will a small group of survivors live through the zombie apocalypse? Or will they too succumb to...

Blood, fangs, darkness and terror...these are the calling cards of the vampire mythos. Inside this tome are stories that embrace vampire history but seek to introduce a new literary spin on this longstanding fictional monster. Follow a dark journey through cigarette-smoking creatures hunted by rogue angels, vampires that feed off of thoughts instead of blood, immortals presenting the fantastic in a local rock band, to a legendary monster on the far reaches of town. Forget what you know about vampires; this anthology will destroy historical mythos and embrace incredible new twists on this...

Human meat...the ultimate taboo. Deep down, in the dark recesses of your mind, can you honestly say you never wondered how it might taste? Honestly, never wondered if a chunk of thigh tasted like chicken or pork? Or if a hunk of an arm was similar to steak? And what kind of wine would be served with it, red or white? Would a human liver be no different than one from a cow, or a pig? For all we know, human flesh is as tender as veal, better than the finest tenderloin. And that is what the stories in this book are about, eating each other. But be warned, after reading these tales of...

Welcome to a world where the dead walk. The walking dead are once more on the prowl for the living and the world will never be the same again. Like the bloated corpse of a freshly-buried body, the stories in this anthology will leave you cringing with disgust. Filled with gut-munching gore and intestine-tearing tales of the rotting dead, you may just find yourself tasting bile by the end. But don't be afraid. It's only a book; the dead don't really walk. Or do they?

Zombie Zoology an Unnatural History: Severed Press has assembled a truly original anthology of never before published stories of living dead beasts. Inside you will find tales of prehistoric creatures rising from the Bog, a survivalist taking on a troop of rotting baboons, a NASA experiment going Ape, A hunter going a Moose too far and many more undead creatures from Hell. The crawling, buzzing, flying abominations of mother nature have risen and they are hungry.

What would you do if you encountered a vampire that couldn't be killed, a monster that wanted to eat you, or a ghost of mist? Would you survive? As you read this collection of stories, we will leave it up to you to decide what is real and what is fiction. Just remember, after the lights are out, and you are safely tucked in bed, the Dark Dreams will come and you will have to fend for yourself, because no one will be there to save you. With stories by: Anthony Giangregorio, Courtney Rene, Mikki Sadil, Charles Versfelt, Rebecca Besser

This anthology is not for the meek or prudish. The stories contained within this book are about fish in the most outlandish, perverted and wild ways imaginable. Two men go to the aquarium and play a game. The loser gets to strip and play with the fish! A reclusive millionaire likes to fish. . .with LIVE BAIT! If mermaids are real, then do they taste like tuna or flounder? A man with a particular fetish for sea life finds out that it's not so much fun when he's on the receiving end. When a wife is betrayed, she uses everything from leeches to a swordfish to exact her revenge. Can stickleback...

From the dawn of mankind, the walking dead have been with us. The greatest moments in history are not what they appear. Through the ages, the undead have been there, only the proof has been erased, documents destroyed, and witnesses silenced. The living dead is man's greatest secret. In this tome, are a few of the stories of what really happened all those years ago. History isn't alive, it's dead

From a first look, zombies may seem different from regular people. After all, they smell, they like to eat brains, and they don't clean up after themselves. Now most of this stuff can be overlooked-well, maybe not the brain-eating-but how do you accept someone into your life that is technically dead? The living-challenged may be clumsy, and they may be sloppy eaters, but one thing is for sure is that they can also be amusing, and when you really get a good look at them, maybe, just maybe, they aren't that scary at all and in fact, they are actually funny So before you shoot that zombie in...

With long thin tails, beady eyes and usually carriers of plagues, rats are one of the most reviled creatures on the planet. And for good reason. Vicious in the extreme, rats will go to great lengths to find food and have no qualms about feeding on human flesh if there is a need. Imagine being trapped in the sewers of New York while all around you are hundreds of rats, their hungry eyes watching and waiting for a chance to attack. Or maybe you find yourself in a garbage dump and are helpless, and as night begins to fall, the rats come out to feed...on you. While digging a grave in a cemetery,...