Sure, a zombie's bite can turn its victim into one of the living dead. Any horror-movie enthusiastic can tell you that. Zombies can rise from the dead for countless reasons. In BEACH BLANKET ZOMBIE, you will sit down to a feast of zombie stories - seventeen in all. Search your favorite ebook store for 'Wildside Press MEGAPACK' to see the complete list of available titles.Zombies are relentless, ravenous creatures, and their insatiable appetite for living flesh has given author Mark McLaughlin plenty of food for thought. Series, covering not just horror, but science fiction, fantasy, westerns, romance, and many other genres (even nurse novels!). If you enjoy this ebook, check out the 400+ other volumes in the MEGAPACK® The Tale of the Cat-Headed Man, the Man-Headed Dog, and the Lady with Rats for Hands The Astonishing Secret of the King of the Catsĭon’t Look in the Little Storage Room Behind the Furnace The Vainglorious Simulacrum of Mungha Sorcyllamia PART 3: Tales of the Surreal and the Bizarre Scenes from a Foreign Horror Video, with Zombies and Tasteful Nudityĭiabolical Entities and How to Deal with Them Why Cosmo Used to Wear a Lab Smock Every Halloween PART 2: Magic, Monsters, Zombies, And Demons So, dig in and enjoy these 28 tales by one of the modern masters of the macabre!Ī Beauty Treatment for Mrs. The view is pretty amazing, but the shock of impact may do you in.gruesome, funny and touching. “Reading Mark McLaughlin is a little like stepping out of the door of an airplane in mid flight. “McLaughlin’s tales are laugh-out-loud assaults on consensus reality.” (Paul Di Filippo, ASIMOV’S) Absolutely fabulous.… If your palette is jaded, come to the feast that is Mark McLaughlin.” (Simon Clark) And they’re all rolled into one in the shape of Mark McLaughlin who writes stories that are wonderfully witty, surrealistic and ineffably strange. “In the most devious manner, McLaughlin’s stories achieve a high degree of demonism by perpetuating a sinister ‘humor’ at the gallows of the human comedy.” (Thomas Ligotti)

But these are never quite the monsters you’re expecting.ĭon’t take my word for it.

And while he’s poking around the oddest places, he finds humor in the outrageous and the unsettling.

He doesn’t tread the safe (or even sane!) path, but goes off in quirky directions, and he’s happy to have company along the way. Mark-whom I’ve had the pleasure of publishing for nearly 20 years now-is one of those unique voices in the horror field. Who is this Mark McLaughlin person, and why should you read him?

Beach Blanket Zombie by Mark McLaughlin