Pseudopod 94: The Skull-Faced Boy by David Barr Kirtley
We’ve all heard the same old zombie spiel over and over again. Zombies rise. They are hungry. Living people run and hide before rising up and stomping zombie butt. (Well, some of the time). What happens though, when there is a zombie overlord? What happens when some of the zombies are the living dead with a mind still intact? Is there actually an original zombie story left out there? Well, I’ll answer that last question…YES! And this is it!
One of the first things to pop into my mind after hearing this, is that this story would make a perfect episode of the Twilight Zone. A very good episode of the twilight zone. This is also probably one of the only zombie..well, anything!.. that does not have massive amounts of gore flying around and detailed descriptions of mauling. Is there zombie grossness? Of course. But this guy has finesse!
I’ll be looking up more of this author and I highly recommend heading over to Psuedopod and downloading the audible version, as the reading was also excellent. If you are interested in hearing or learning more about
David Barr Kirtley, just follow the link!
David Barr Kirtley : Blog : Miscellaneous Publishing News said,
July 28, 2008 at 9:22 pm
[...] here’s a really nice blog post by Lisa Marie Andrews about my story “The Skull-Faced [...]
JoshWink said,
August 15, 2008 at 7:46 pm
Oh, Thanks! Really interesting. Big ups!