The Secret Zombie History of the World
by Paul Finch, Matthew
Sprange & Toby Venables
Coming to life on 10th Dec
in paperback (US & Can)
and ebook (worldwide)
$12.99/$14.99 ISBN
978-1-78108-160-0
Northern Europe, 976 AD: a Viking crew find
themselves in a bleak land of pestilence, where the dead return as draugr to
feed on the flesh of their kin and a dark castle in a hidden fjord hides a
terrible secret.
Britain, 1295 AD: A young English knight joins
a force sent to capture a castle from Welsh rebels, but druids summon an army
of the undead, bent on revenge. Will the stronghold – once thought impregnable
– hold out?
The Cape of Good Hope, the
1820s: Captain
Havelock discovers his ship and the French frigate he has been ordered to hunt
down are not alone as an enemy thought long since vanquished rises from the
deeps...
This is The Secret Zombie History
of the World – an omnibus of historical zombie stories, released in this
new format for the North American market, that reveals the outbreaks that have
plagued mankind for hundreds of years. From Viking ‘draugr’ to the medieval
undead and Napoleonic corpses, this trio of tales from the popular Tomes of the
Dead series will keep you awake at night wondering just how close humanity has
come to joining the hordes of the infected!
Toby Venables, Matthew Sprange, and Paul Finch each weave historical
fact into thrilling tales of rotting revenants and cutthroat cadavers!
About the
Series
Rotten bone and raddled flesh, shuffling perils and moaning menaces – Tomes
of the Dead re-imagines the zombie genre not as an endless retread of
the same tired themes, but as a prism crack’d, exploring the gut-churning,
flesh-biting world of the shambling dead from new, different and unexpected
directions!
About the Authors
Paul Finch is a former cop and journalist, now turned full time writer. He first cut his literary teeth penning episodes of the British TV crime drama, THE BILL, and has written extensively in the field of children's animation. However, he is probably best known for his work in horrors and thrillers. He has won two British Fantasy Awards and the International Horror Guild Award, and has written Doctor Who audio dramas for Big Finish as well as scripts for several movie adaptations of his own stories and novellas. Paul lives in Wigan, Lancashire, with his wife Cathy and his children, Eleanor and Harry.
Matthew Sprange has a solid history in roleplaying design as well as writing over two dozen gaming books, including the Babylon 5, Judge Dredd and Starship Troopers games, and has won two Origins Awards for his work in miniature wargames. Death Hulk is his second novel, with his first being a trip into the Babylon 5 universe, entitled Visions of Peace.
Toby Venables is a novelist, screenwriter and lecturer in Film Studies at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge. He has since worked as a journalist and magazine editor – launching magazines in Cambridge, Peterborough, Oxford and Bristol – and once orchestrated an elaborate Halloween hoax for which he built and photographed a werewolf. He still works as a freelance copywriter, has been the recipient of a radio advertising award, and in 2001 won the Keats-Shelley Memorial Prize.
