Bad Blood (15 page)

Inside, Coburn felt Kayla stirring, restless, like a bird in a cage.

She didn’t say anything.

Maybe she didn’t have to.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Chuck Wendig is a novelist, screenwriter and self-described ‘penmonkey.’ He sold his first story when he was 18. After working in the computer and role-playing game industries he began scripting TV and film projects, including a horror film script which won him a place at the prestigious
Sundance Screenwriter Lab
2010.

He’s written too much. He should probably stop. Give him a wide berth, as he might be drunk and untrustworthy. He currently lives in the wilds of Pennsyltucky with wife, dog, and newborn progeny.

Bad Blood
marks Chuck’s second project with Abaddon Books.

www.terribleminds.com

A VAMPIRE IN ZOMBIELAND

Coburn’s been dead now for close to a century, but seeing as how he’s a vampire and all, it doesn’t much bother him. Or at least it didn’t, not until he awoke from a forced five-year slumber to discover that most of human civilization was now dead—but not dead like him, oh no.

See, Coburn likes blood. The rest of the walking dead, they like flesh. He’s smart. Them, not so much. But they outnumber him by about a million to one. And the clotted blood of the walking dead cannot sustain him. Now he’s starving. And on the run. And more pissed-off than a beestung rattlesnake. The vampire not only has to find human survivors (with their sweet, sweet blood), but now he has to transition from predator to protector—after all, a man has to look after his food supply.

“Wendig is ferociously inventive and effortlessly sharp”

– Richard Dansky, author of
Beloved of the Dead
and
Firefly Rain

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A DREAD TIDE!

The Olivers have a chance to make a new home by the Salton Sea. Looking forward to Californiab fun, sun and adventure they are unprepared for the ecological devastation they find. The sea is rotting, the town of Bombay Beach is dying and the citizens are like bait, waiting to be plucked from their homes by what comes from the sea. For just off the coast something lies in wait, a government secret gone wrong, a deadly experiment that has created a breed of zombie like no other.

Beware the coming of the green, the townsfolk say. Beware the coming of the night!

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LIFE AND DEATH ON THE WAVES

Kavika Kamalani is a Pali Boy, a post-plague heir to an ancient Hawai’ian warrior tradition that believes in overcoming death by embracing one’s fears and
living large
. His life on the
Nomi No Toshi
, the floating city, is turned upside down when one of his friends dies, harvested for his blood, and he sets out to find the killer.

Kidnapped himself and subjected to a terrifying transformation, Kavika must embrace the ultimate fear – death itself – if he, his loved ones, and the Pali Boys themselves are to survive.

“Weston is one of the best authors of our generation.”

– Brian Keene, author of
Take the Long Way Home
and
City of the Dead

“Weston Ochse is a mercurial writer, one of those depressingly talented people who are good at whatever they turn their hand to.”

– Conrad Williams

The Afterblight Chronicles
is an exciting series of high-action post-apocalypse fiction set in a world ruled by crazed gangs and strange cults.

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