Richard Drogan has been spooked ever since he came back from Nam, but he’s no head case, dig? He just knows the old dude needs to die.Įven though she made her name revealing the private lives of the rich and famous, Sara Peck has no idea how deep their secrets really go… or the price they’ll pay to get what they desire.Ī trip to the nail salon is supposed to be relaxing.

Stephen King, Lisa Morton, Nell Quinn-Gibney, Norman Prentiss, Joyce Carol Oates, and Tim Curran plunge readers into the dark side in this deeply unsettling short-story collection curated by legendary horror editors Brian James Freeman and Richard Chizmar. And unless Slaughter can stop it, it will pick its teeth with the last bones of the human race. The drawback: An ancient, diabolic evil has claimed the Deadlands and is in league with Cannibal Corpse. If Slaughter does not bring back the biologist, his brother will be executed. His incentive: his brother is being held at a federal prison back east on charges of sedition. It will mean a raid into territory swarming with the living dead, mutations, and sects of psychotic survivalists… not to mention the Cannibal Corpse motorcycle club, blood enemies of the Devil’s Disciples. His objective: Snatch a high-level biologist who is being held at an old NORAD fortress by a paramilitary terrorist group. Captured by the army, the feds want him to lead a gang of his old bikers across the Mississippi and into the nuclear wastes of the Deadlands.

And here, atomic weapons have created legions of mutants, primeval monsters, and wild chaotic weather patterns.Įnter: John Slaughter. Here, bioengineered Corpse Worms rain from the blood-streaked sky, reanimating the dead. WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER IS A HELLZONE KNOWN AS THE DEADLANDS. FOLLOWING A MAJOR PANDEMIC, THE COUNTRY IS IN RUINS.

Biohazard by Tim Curran