A chronicle of survival in a world of the living dead.There is no Heaven or Hell; there is only blood and the dust of flesh. The Corpse Fauna Chronicles A vast, malevolent darkness streams across the cosmos. A plague of the living dead sweeps over the Earth. Those left alive scramble for survival like insects feasting on a corpse. And from dead flesh stare a million unnatural eyes. Will the balance of the world tilt to life-or death? Only a handful of the living will decide. Manipulated by undead powers, they travel rough roads of deprivation and danger, finding themselves snared in a web spun by saints and sinners with control of the reanimated dead.
Cornell, one-time bank robber seeking only freedom.
Della, nurse escaping the prison of her past.
Burke, former military scientist clinging to the last of his sanity.
Vale, abandoned, finding her true strength in the world of the dead.
These four and a handful of others must discover the truth behind what brings the dead back to life and what they desire from the living.
Forget the meek. Will the living or the dead inherit the Earth?
Find out in The Corpse Fauna Chronicles. Collected here for the first time in one volume is the complete Corpse Fauna cycle of novellas, short stories, and illustrations, a saga of horror and survival more than twenty-five years in the making. Praise for Corpse Fauna and the work of James Chambers:
"James Chambers breathes new life into the zombie genre [...] Weird, heartbreaking, funny, and exciting! Two decaying thumbs up!" -Jonathan Maberry, NY Times bestselling author of Patient Zero and Rot & Ruin
"...chillingly evocative writing..."-Publisher's Weekly
"James Chambers writes stories that are paced fast enough to friction burn a reader's eyeballs."-Horror Reader.com
"...evoke[s] the sense of terror that has kept zombie lore a staple of the horror industry for years... disturbing not only for the gore and gristle therein, but for the psychological implications..."-Vampirella Magazine
Author Biography:
James Chambers is an award-winning author of horror, crime, fantasy, science fiction, and other genres. He wrote the Bram Stoker Award(R)-winning graphic novel, Kolchak the Night Stalker: The Forgotten Lore of Edgar Allan Poe and was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for his story, "A Song Left Behind in the Aztakea Hills." Booklist described his collection On the Night Border as "...a haunting exploration of the space where the real world and nightmares collide," and, in a starred review, said of his collection On the Hierophant Road: "For fans of the new breed of dark-speculative-fiction writers who actively play with genre confines to create reads that are inventive, thought-provoking, and creepily fun." Publisher's Weekly gave his collection of four Lovecraftian-inspired novellas, The Engines of Sacrifice, a starred review and described it as "...chillingly evocative..." He is also the author of the short story collection Resurrection House, the Corpse Fauna novellas, including The Dead Bear Witness, Tears of Blood, and The Dead in Their Masses, as well as the dark urban fantasy, Three Chords of Chaos, and Kolchak and the Night Stalkers: The Faceless God. His short stories have been published in numerous anthologies, including After Punk: Steampowered Tales of the Afterlife, The Best of Bad-Ass Faeries, The Best of Defending the Future, Chiral Mad 2, Chiral Mad 4, Gaslight and Grimm, The Green Hornet Chronicles, Kolchak the Night Stalker: Passages of the Macabre, Qualia Nous, Shadows Over Main Street (1 and 2), The Spider: Extreme Prejudice, Truth or Dare, TV Gods, Walrus Tales, Weird Trails, and the magazines Bare Bone, Cthulhu Sex, and Allen K's Inhuman. He edited the Bram Stoker Award-nominated anthology Under Twin Suns: Alternate Histories of the Yellow Sign and co-edited A New York State of Fright: Horror Stories from the Empire State, also a Bram Stoker Award finalist.He has also written and edited numerous comic books including Leonard Nimoy's Primortals, the critically acclaimed "The Revenant" in Shadow House, and The Midnight Hour with Jason Whitley. He lives in New York.Visit his website: www.jameschambersonline.com. Glen Ostrander (cover) is a Freelance Artist and Illustrator who has created artwork in the fantasy/horror genre for a wide variety of commercial clients. He is known for his evocative work and continues to bring his creations to life by finding daily inspiration near his home, in the wild mountains of New Hampshire, where he lives with his wonderful wife Anna, his devilish dog Jojo, and his fiendish feline Floyd. Jason Whitley (interior) is the illustrator and co-creator of The Midnight Hour. Jason's work as a newspaper illustrator has appeared across the country and won many awards. His portrait of civil rights leader Charlotte Hawkins Brown is in the Charlotte Hawkins Brown Museum. With writer Scott Eckelaert, he co-created and illustrated the classic comic-strip, Sea Urchins. Sea Urchins has been collected into four volumes. The fourth volume, So Long, Frozen Ocean will be released in 2020. Jason leads a Hermes and Telly Award-winning multimedia team of five in North Carolina. He's working on a crime-noir graphic novel with no set release date and looking forward to the complete The Midnight Hour collection from eSpec Books in 2023.
