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Kim

About Me

I went to school at St. John's College (Annapolis, MD, B.A., 1988), Harvard Divinity School (MTS, 1990), and the University of Notre Dame (Ph.D. 1995). I used to write horror fiction constantly in high school, but suddenly stopped when I went to college. Too busy reading, most of it not horror, but just getting ideas and learning to think better. I saw, in particular, that as I studied Christian theology, I was especially fascinated by those writers on the "dark side" - Augustine, Dante, Dostoevsky, Flannery O'Connor, for example. Then last year the horror writing just started back up. First I did Gospel of the Living Dead: George Romero's Visions of Hell on Earth (Baylor, 2006), connecting zombie movies to some of the Christian themes and images I saw in them. Then I took the plunge back into fiction with Dying to Live (Permuted Press, 2007). I'm happy to be doing this once again. Visit my WEBSITE

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My Interests

I'd like to meet:

George Romero, of course. The lads of Judas Priest.

My Blog

Valley of the Dead - now available!

My new zombie novel is now available as a limited edition from Cargo Cult Press!Heres the synopsis. For seventeen years of his life, the whereabouts of the medieval Italian poet Dante Alighieri is un...
Posted by on Mon, 11 May 2009 09:58:00 GMT

Orpheus and the Pearl

Haven't posted here yet on my new novelette, Orpheus and the Pearl. It is now available, and a couple really nice reviews were posted this weekend:http://damnedrodan.livejournal.com/16184.htmlhtt...
Posted by on Mon, 12 May 2008 09:02:00 GMT

GREAT Review on Monster Librarian!

A great one of History Is Dead! http://monsterlibrarian.com/zombies.htmHistory_is_Dead_edite d_by_Kim_Paffenroth
Posted by on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 22:04:00 GMT

New Review of History Is Dead!

From the Creature Feature Tomb of Horror (http://www.countgore.com/Tomb.htm):HISTORY IS DEAD edited by Kim PaffenrothZombies are hot again, and Stoker winner Kim Paffenroth puts a brand new spin on zo...
Posted by on Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:58:00 GMT

Reader’sChoice Award

Preditors and Editors Reader's Choice voting is going on, and my zombie anthology History Is Dead is on the list. If you feel so inclined, please stop by and vote for it (or for whichever antholo...
Posted by on Sat, 05 Jan 2008 18:11:00 GMT

History Is Dead Anthology!!!

History Is Dead, my new anthology of zombie stories set before the 20th century, is now available! Check it out on Amazon.com, where Weston Ochse, author of Scarecrow Gods and Vampire Outlaw of the Mi...
Posted by on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 09:25:00 GMT

Spring Appearances

Wow - I'm in demand! I just got word that the good people at LeMoyne College would like me to present at their spring conference on "The Grotesque and the Sublime in Contemporary Culture" - http://www...
Posted by on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 13:01:00 GMT

THE END!!

That's right, MySpacers: D2L2 - Live Sentence is now DONE! Just proofread the last couple chapters, and am hitting the "send" button to Permuted right now. I'm so happy with how it turned out - poigna...
Posted by on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:28:00 GMT

New Review!!

Another person who "gets it" about zombies! http://www.babysfirstzombie.com/2007/04/dying-to-live.htmlTh anks, BFZ!I'm just thrilled that people "get" what I was trying to say. I'm not sure whether or ...
Posted by on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 09:28:00 GMT

Thanks Zombos!!

Zombos' review is more fun to read than the book itself: http://zomboscloset.typepad.com/zombos_closet_of_horror_b/20 07/04/dying_to_live_l.html
Posted by on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 19:35:00 GMT