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Joe McKinney

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About Me

CLICK HERE TO VISIT JOE McKINNEY.NETTHEY WON'T STAY DEAD! TEXAS? TOAST. Battered by five cataclysmic hurricanes in three weeks, the Texas Gulf Coast and half of the Lone Star State is reeling from the worst devastation in history. Thousands are dead or dying--but the worst is only beginning. Amid the wreckage, something unimaginable is happening: a deadly virus has broken out, returning the dead to life--with an insatiable hunger for human flesh.THE NIGHTMARE BEGINS. Within hours, the plague has spread all over Texas. San Antonio police officer Eddie Hudson finds his city overrun by a voracious army of the living dead. Along with a small group of survivors, Eddie must fight off the savage horde in a race to save his family...HELL ON EARTH. There's no place to run. No place to hide. The zombie horde is growing as the virus runs rampant. Eddie knows he has to find a way to destroy these walking horrors..but he doesn't know the price he will have to pay...Paperback: 288 pages Publisher: Pinnacle (November 1, 2006) ISBN: 0786017813CLICK TO ORDER FROM AMAZON.COM myspace

My Interests

My family, my writing, reading great books.

I'd like to meet:

Readers, authors...anyone interested in horror, science fiction, and dark fantasy.

Movies:

Alien, Pretty much anything with a zombie in it, the Coen Brothers, Arsenic and Old Lace, Night of the Iguana, The Shining (and I mean the Jack Nicholson one, not the other one), Cool Hand Luke, The Changeling, and a bunch of others I can't think of right now.

Television:

Cold Case, The Simpsons, and Good Eats...the holy trinity!

Books:

I love the pulp fiction era. Imagine the days before TV, when you could go down to the newstand at the corner and find at least fifty magazines all containing huge amounts of short fiction in just about every genre imaginable. I would have loved being a part of that culture back then.Some of the best stuff I've read recently...Ted Chiang's Stories of Your Life, Algernon Blackwood's Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories, Horror Library Volume 2 from Cutting Block Press, John Updike's Rabbit, Run, and Paul Theroux's Mosquito Coast.