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While trying to distract yourself from yesterday’s heartbreak, did you happen to catch last night’s Z Nation? If so, in the Season 2, Episode 10 episode titled “We Were Nowhere Near the Grand Canyon,” you’d have seen one of my favorite writers zombified.


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As some of you may recall, I arrived in Spokane last month for Sasquan several days earlier than necessary, which allowed me to spend nearly every waking moment the Monday before Worldcon doing something super sekrit which I could not share then but promised I’d share someday.

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Back in May, I told you about the upcoming publication of a new Spanish-language printing of editor James Lowder’s anthology The Book of All Flesh, titled El libro de los zombies. It was to contain my short story “Live People Don’t Understand,” which would appear under the title ( Read more... )

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I can’t read, write, or speak in Spanish, but if you’d like to read one of my zombie short stories in that language anyway, you’re in luck. A new Spanish-language printing of the anthology The Book of All Flesh, titled El libro de los zombies, will be out shortly from Edge.


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If you’d like to begin reading a quartet of undead tales right now, then why not check out the new ebook A Clutch of Zombies, assembled by Stephen Jones from stories previously reprinted in his Best New Horror anthologies?

And, oh, will you look at that? One of those stories is ( Read more... )

I spent yesterday at Balticon, doing a shared reading with Danielle Ackley-McPhail and John Mierau (you can see me and John in Adam Corbin Fusco‘s photo below) and taking part in a panel on The Walking Dead, in which we compared the two seasons so far and speculated on what’s to come in season three. We also gave our opinions as to how long the ( Read more... )

Over at the Night Land Journal, my short story “What Will Come After” was praised as the result of its recent reprinting in Stephen Jones’ latest best horror of the year anthology:

One of the most unusual zombie stories I’ve ever read is Scott Edelman’s “What Will Come After,” which I just read as the lead story in The Mammoth Book of Best New ( Read more... )

2011 is over and done with, so I thought I’d look back and see which of my posts were read the most last year.

One thing that’s clear is you’re all as interested in the issues raised by those Sharon Moody paintings of comics books as I am-my initial commentary on the matter was my most-clicked post of the year (almost virally so), and 3 of the top ( Read more... )

Back in August, I announced a competition inviting people to create movies of at least three minutes in length from any section of my Shakespearean zombie play “A Plague on Both Your Houses.” The clip could be in any style-live action, claymation, puppets, whatever. The winner of the Blow the Top of Scott Edelman’s Head Off Really Cool Zombie ( Read more... )

A couple of months ago, I announced a competition to blow the top of my head off by creating a short clip based on my Stoker-nominated zombie play “A Plague on Both Your Houses,” with three winners to be unveiled at World Fantasy Con at the end of this month. The clip of no less than three minutes in length can be in any format-live action, ( Read more... )