Jay Wilburn

In a world where Twilight has the balls to call itself a 'saga', I think it's time to take a step away from that word. I go to a book store and see a book proclaiming to be the first in a dodecology, I'm gonna buy that book just cuz the author decided to throw down that gauntlet from the start.-Indy McDaniel, author of Nady's Nights: Road to Vengence Truth is lost in legends and legends grow over time. They grow because we need them to be bigger and we need them to explain the things we fear. We write them for ourselves and for our world. The Dead Song Legend of Tiny "Mud Music" Jones has captured the imagination of everyone that survived the apocalypse even as he captured the music of the survivors and the music that helped us all to survive.-B. B. Tarmancula, Dead World Memorial Dedication.

You will never believe in being stone cold dead again. The undead are among us. Run Sixteen tales of the undead, all set in the colder months. Learn the definition of chilling in Tom Wescott's "Coffin Dirt" and James Simpson's "Mit Den Augen Der Toten". Meet dead family members in Neil Davies' "Abandoned" and Sylvia McIver's "Candles Against the Dark" - but be careful - not all reunions are loving. Read tales of ancient undead from D. J. Tyrer and Carl Thomas Fox - and a modern variant from Jason Purdy. Find out what Dickens' Ghost of Christmas Future does once her job is over in "Fear of the Future" by Gareth Barsby. What are zombies like in the winter? Jay Wilburn and Spencer Carvalho will be happy to show you. Interested in adventure? Alex Azar takes you "Under the Hood of Winter". Take a lonely road into fear with Guy Burtenshaw, find unusual allies in the forest with Ryan Tandy, and learn about true survival in Stephanie Stamm's "Phantom Pains". Prefer to stick close to home, where it's safe? Shenoa Carrol-Bradd and Lance Zarimba will make you feel a lot less secure. So, grab a blanket before settling down to read this book... but you might want to keep a firearm handy, just in case. You never know what could happen.