Zombie Reporter

People keep asking me about zombies and since I nearly became one—courtesy of the ghoul, Clément—I’m probably better versed in the subject (the real truth about zombies, that is …) than most. So let me tell you about a poor half-Irish boy whose mother was Greek. His dad was...

Japanese Ghosts and Dem...

I love Japanese ghost stories and that’s why I’m crazy about Utagawa Kuniyoshi. Kuniyoshi was born in Japan in 1797. Originally his name was Yoshisaburō, but he changed it when he went to work in Utagawa Toyokuni’s studio as a printmaker. Like all great artists he was...

What’s in a Zombi...

“On her tray was a single tall blue drink. I peered through the crowd in the direction that she’d pointed a skeletal thumb and saw the guy she was talking about looking back over his shoulder at me with a big grin on his face. One of his front teeth was missing, a little black door...

Real Live Zombies

This zombie story is real: the hunt for a zombie “formula” that takes a young ethnobotanist to Haiti. This is the very formula that  Clément was after and the reason he, too, went to Haiti. The young ethnobotanist, who was fascinated by psychoactive drugs, advanced the...

Grave Stuff on Sunday

You can tune in to hear bits an pieces of dark, dead stuff, including some cool DEAD LOVE cuts, flying around on Sunday, March 28 and 12-2PM (PST)  on Lilycat on Stuff. Featuring zombie-ninja writer Linda Watanabe McFerrin on Zombie Erin and the Dark Slice Call in by Cartoonist – Keith...

Contorted

“OK, we’re here,” the clown announced, seemingly to his suitcase, as he set it down next to a hole in the ground. One by one the other members of the funeral procession arrived at the gravesite. Clément and I scuttled into the nearby bushes. The suitcase fell over, opened itself, and a...