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Dave | EMPIRE, a zombie novel

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About Me


New serial - The Harvest Cycle
Empire is here! Click the cover to order!
I'm a horror writer. In addition to fiction, I write movie reviews for The Hacker's Source and Oh, the Horror! . On the film front, I've written a feature, Live Bait , set to go into production this year. I live with my wife of almost 8 years & the cats.
daviddunwoodydotcom
Read my stuff
• Read The Harvest Cycle , an ongoing serial novel
• Order Empire , my debut novel, in an expanded edition!
• Read the online version of Empire. Prequels "AfterDead" & "MetaDead" also available at the site
• Order The Undead: Headshot Quartet from Permuted Press
• Read reviews & fiction in The Hacker's Source
• Read "He Likes Them Old Bones" , a short story at Yellow Mama
• Read "Minotaur" , a short story at Every Day Fiction
• Read "The Omega" from Cerveauxxx
• Read "In the Clay" , a short story at susurrus
• Hear "Ruminations from Tri-Omega House" in episode 20 of "Library of the Living Dead"
• Order History is Dead from Permuted Press
• Order Fried! Fast Food, Slow Deaths from Graveside Tales Press
• Order Read by Dawn II from Bloody Books
• Order The Undead , The Undead: Skin and Bones , and The Undead: Flesh Feast from Permuted Press
Story Tracker
If you're a writer, some of the links below may lead to open markets.
Accepted:
"Catch-666" for NexGen Pulp
"The Ambrosia Supper Club" for Shroud Magazine's Abominations
"Other Dreams" for Robots Beyond
"Ministry" for Bewildering Stories
"Living the Dream" (non-fiction) for Catharsis
Submitted:
"Teardrop" submitted to The Future Fire
"Warewulf" submitted to AlienSkin
"The Craving" submitted to Horror D’oeuvres
"The Run" submitted to Terrible Beauty, Fearful Symmetry
"Tabula Rasa" submitted to 7th Dimension
"Mother Tree" submitted to Shadowed Pathways
"A Carrion to Wounded Souls" submitted to Another Sky Press
"The Court of Chaos" submitted to Grimoire
"Sunset" submitted to Aberrant Dreams
"Off" submitted to Black Ink Horror Magazine
"The New Curse" submitted to From the Asylum
"Ladies and Gentlemen, Children of All Ages" submitted to Dark Discoveries

My Interests

Clown statues

I'd like to meet:

People in the fields of horror filmmaking and/or writing, old friends.

Music:

The Police, Sting, David Bowie, Cheap Trick, Foo Fighters, Depeche Mode, Massive Attack, Metallica, Johnny Cash, Incubus, RHCP

Movies:

The Evil Dead, Re-Animator, Friday the 13th, Dawn of the Dead, Kill Bill Vol 2, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Hellbound: Hellraiser 2, Halloween II, A Nightmare On Elm Street, Die Hard, Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, Predator, Aliens, Cronenberg and Fulci flicks, gialli

Television:

30 Rock, Conan, Craig, Arrested Development, Law and Order SVU, Law and Order Criminal Intent, House, adult swim

Books:

Stephen King's IT, H.P. Lovecraft, Clive Barker, Richard Matheson, zombies & horror in general

Heroes:

My biggest influences are H.P. Lovecraft and David Cronenberg .

My Blog

Conduit XVIII

http://conduit.sfcon.org/Not what it could've been, but not bad either. I knew that my panel, being on the last day of the con - plus its subject matter, "Where to Publish Horror" - wasn't going to dr...
Posted by Dave | EMPIRE, a zombie novel on Sun, 25 May 2008 02:37:00 PST

Interview 5/23 for Library of the Living Dead - call in!

Dr. Pus will be recording an interview with me tomorrow night. From his announcement:"That's right Good Librarians!! I'll be interviewing Dave Dunwoody, Good Librarian and author of the insanely wonde...
Posted by Dave | EMPIRE, a zombie novel on Fri, 23 May 2008 06:44:00 PST

The Harvest has begun (update 5/23)

http://harvestcycle.blogspot.com/The Harvest Cycle prologue is now posted. The next update will be next Friday, 5/23; soon after that I'll be doing two updates per week.The updates will usually be pos...
Posted by Dave | EMPIRE, a zombie novel on Sat, 17 May 2008 08:30:00 PST

The Harvest is coming.

http://harvestcycle.blogspot.com/    In 2062, the Year of the Fiftieth Harvest, Man will venture above ground, into the cities-turned-wilderness left behind after the apocalypse, in a l...
Posted by Dave | EMPIRE, a zombie novel on Sat, 10 May 2008 04:21:00 PST

EMPIRE at Borders! (updated)

Jacob at Permuted just informed me that Borders has ordered several hundred copies of Empire for their brick-and-mortar stores (to appear at the beginning of May). If it does well, there'll be another...
Posted by Dave | EMPIRE, a zombie novel on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 02:30:00 PST

Denver Starfest/Horrorfest 2008

Thanks to my sister Autumn and her husband Vince for reppin' Empire at Starfest (or Starcon) '08....
Posted by Dave | EMPIRE, a zombie novel on Mon, 05 May 2008 09:07:00 PST

Godfather Death

I just found this Brothers Grimm tale online. The ending with the cave and the candles...uncanny. Godfather Death Brothers Grimm   A poor man had twelve children and was forced ...
Posted by Dave | EMPIRE, a zombie novel on Fri, 02 May 2008 10:51:00 PST

Birthday

Saturday, the day before, wasn't too bad. Took the guys up to Logan for a Special Olympics track & field event. Sunburned my noggin, but it doesn't hurt much. Then I came home and passed a kidney ...
Posted by Dave | EMPIRE, a zombie novel on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 01:03:00 PST

Chrysalis

Chrysalis is an organization that provides opportunities for individuals living with disabilities. I've recently started working with them, in a job that is essentially about phasing myself out of a j...
Posted by Dave | EMPIRE, a zombie novel on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 03:02:00 PST

Making daviddunwoodydotcom work

daviddunwoodydotcom has been set up with the help of Permuted Press as a hub for all of my horror fiction on the web. There you'll find links to order my published works, as well as links to free fict...
Posted by Dave | EMPIRE, a zombie novel on Sun, 13 Apr 2008 01:26:00 PST