Dead Love: Rats!

I just saw my first rat (family: Muridae, genus: Rattus) this trip. It was scuttling along the tracks in the NY underground. I’m surprised I haven’t seen more of them. Nobody knows how many rats there are in New York; estimates range from hundreds of thousands to millions....

Dead Love: Zombie Rant ...

If I didn’t already feel like a zombie, today would certainly push me over the edge. I’m dragging around after a day of sifting through the good and the bad at BEA. I don’t know if the stats say “up” or “down,” but I’d say attendance was...

Dead Love: NYC Zombie C...

Regrettably, I’m going to miss this (even though DEAD LOVE is in NY for the next few days and nights with tons of free advance readers’ copies), but I thought that the closet and out zombies should know … The Spring NYC Zombie Crawl is happening this Sunday. It starts...

Dead Love: Russian Zomb...

Zombies in Russia? But of course! Here’s the proof. It’s The Meat Holiday in Moscow and quite the zombie mob gallery—a colorful little treat … —Erin Orison, DEAD LOVE/The Daily...

Dead Love: Dead, Gone, ...

You may find the undead scary, but the way humanity deals with the dead is the real horror, environmentally speaking. Between the wood used for caskets (30 million—sometimes rare wood—board feet, according to National Geographic), the tons of steel and concrete for burial vaults, the...