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Dead Love: Reality Zomb...

Interested in the latest medical study on zombie comebacks in the real (not reel) world? British British anthropologist Roland Littlewood and Haitian doctor Chavannes Douyon have done case studies on three people who have returned from the dead. All three individuals had the following...

Dead Love: Walken Dead...

No doubt there were a lot of Christopher Walken converts after the 1978 release of Michael Cimino’s film, The Deer Hunter, but that’s nothing compared to the ultra-popular, sorta quirky stage and screen actor’s following now. I think he’s pretty contagious...

Dead Love: Zombies Atta...

Where there is political unrest, wherever there are the disenfranchised, there are zombies! I don’t care who tells you it isn’t political; it is hijo. So no surprise that the undead turn up in Cuba in Juan de los Muertos (Juan of the Dead) or that the living swarm the...

Dead Love: Zombie Prom!...

Oh, I do so want to go to the prom! Just need to find the right guy … er … I mean, ghoul to ask me to go. He’ll have to be able to get me there, though, and that will involve some serious travel as I’m here on the left coast and this prom is way the heck in...

Dead Love: Nomination f...

Dead Love, Linda Watanabe McFerrin’s novel about Japan, zombies and love in the dark, has been nominated for another award. This time it’s the CBS (that’s Carl Brandon Society) Parallax Award for an outstanding work of speculative fiction. For those of you who don’t...

14. Three-days-dead (4)...

There were “bloody” footprints all over the kitchen and clear signs of a scuffle. Of course we couldn’t help but notice the hand, severed and foul looking, next to a dirty white glove in a putrefying puddle on one side of the large kitchen counter. He reached into his pocket...

Dead Love: Dead and Lov...

God, I love Tom Waits. That’s why I’m treating you to one of my favorite Waits compositions this Sunday morning. Dead and Lovely—he could be singing about me! I will hum this tune all morning. It’s particularly alluring when matched with nostalgic images of Cuba...

Dead Love: Spanish Zomb...

Dead Love is now available in Spanish from Editiones B! Mi nombre es Erin y no soy un zombie, aunque mi novio, el gángster Ryu, y el engendro de Clément, trataron de convertirme en uno. Así comienza esta novela de suspenso ambientada en Japón, en donde conviven humanos con seres...

Dead Love: A Little Glo...

Feeling a little gloomy? I am. Really gloomy actually. And when I feel that way, I dive into a comic book. This time it’s Little Gloomy, a supposedly goth-related comic created by Landry Walker and Eric Jones and published by Slave Labor Graphics. Little Gloomy lives in Frightsylvania...

Dead Love: Obon, When t...

I love Obon, Japan’s festival of the dead. It’s happening this year mid-August, though there’s always a question about the date, since it is supposed to take place in the 7th month of the year by the lunar calendar and we use a solar calendar. So some celebrate it...