2010 February | Dead Love

A Ghoul’s Day Out...

Mardi Gras is a ghoul’s day out. Christians have taken to celebrating the lengthy period between the Epiphany (January 19) and Lent (ashes, ashes, it’s Wednesday) with a big blowout that involves gorging on everything they will soon give up. Blowouts are popular, so you’ll...

Undead Walking...

If you missed it—and you probably did—put it on your calendar for next year and just know that SOME people are paying attention to dead love. At least that is the case in Eugene, Oregon, which hosts a yearly Valentine’s Day Zombie Walk. On Valentine’s day the undead...

A Valentine (excerpt)...

Here’s a little DEAD LOVE excerpt for Valentine’s Day! “You might imagine, as I would have if it had not happened to me, that a near-zombie girl would just stand there like a big blow-up doll. Not at all. I am a seemingly will-less creature, and let me tell you,...

The Goth Father...

2009 marked the 200th anniversary of the birth of the Godfather of Goth, Edgar Allen Poe, or just plain Edgar Poe as he was christened and as we like to call him. Edgar was born on a cold January day in 1809 and he died in October, 40 years later. We love him because of his creepy...

Words and Music...

November 18, 2010toNovember 21, 2010November 18-21, 2010 Words & Music A Literary Feast in New Orleans DEAD LOVE returns to Pirate’s Alley for Words & Music. Check it out here. Those who register prior to July 1 will receive a discount on any registration package....

Zombie Hunter...

Author Zora Neale Hurston’s book, Tell My Horse, is a first-hand account of the weird mysteries and horrors of vodou or voodoo. She was the daughter of a Baptist preacher and she became an authority on black culture. Zora participated in vodou practices in Haiti and Jamaica...

Zombies Are Hot...

Zombies are HOT. Read the news. Review the stats. The undead are alive and causing an uproar. Whether it was, as some say, a post-911 response to the horror of terrorism; a comment on the alienation, frustration and sense of futility that has thus far characterized the new millennium;...

Zombies in Hollywood...

Hollywood Zombies: 1932 The White Zombie: Bela Lugosi plays a vodou master enlisted to zombiefy a young bride. 1943 I Walked with a Zombie: Loosely adapted from Jane Eyre, the movie traces the dark discoveries of a nurse hired to care for a plantation owner’s catatonic wife. ...

2. The Men Behind the C...

I’m not sure how Clément got the idea to make a zombie, but he surely came across these monsters in his meanderings around the world because he, too, is a creature of darkness. He certainly knew just where to go to get the infernal recipe. I was unfortunate in that he chose me...

Dead Love Short-listed ...

They love zombies in New Orleans! While still in draft form DEAD LOVE was short-listed as a finalist in the Faulkner-Wisdom Competition in 2007. At the time it was called Dead Girls Don’t Lie. There’s also a conference, Words & Music, every year in that pirate’s...