Rigor Amortis
So the subgenre of zombie fiction that we all thought, “Oh, hahaha that’ll never happen because it would end up like this,” has apparently happened and there’s now an anthology of zombie erotica.
Rigor Amortis styles itself as a collection of “Horror and erotica. Zombies and romance.”
Maybe a tender love story is your thing, a husband doting on his wife’s rotting corpse. Or perhaps a forbidden encounter in a secret cafĂ©, serving up the latest in delectable zombie cuisine, or some dirty, dirty dancing in the old-time honky-tonk. Voodoo sex-slaves and vending machine body-parts? You’ll find those here, too.
Whatever your flavor, these short tales of undead Romance, Revenge, Risk, and Raunch will leave you shambling, moaning, and clawing for more.
And come he slow, or come he fast, It is but Death who comes at last. -Sir Walter Scott, “Marmion”, 1808
There’s also a trailer on YouTube* just in case the written teaser isn’t sufficient, and a (now-closed) contest at Bitten by Books has a bit more information about the project and features several excerpts.
If you’re interested in what would sort of be the ultimate in dirty sex, this is the book for you.
Thanks, xJane!
*xJane, who sent the link, commented that the existence of the trailer “kind of baffles me, since it’s a /book/” and I have to agree.
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October 12th, 2010 at 12:18 am
As much as I have to support this on principle since I know some of the people who contributed, I am really not certain I’ll ever be able to read my copy. That said, here’s a great review, featuring mini-reviews of some of the short stories, which almost makes me want to!
October 13th, 2010 at 11:11 am
Reminds me in a way of zombiepinups.com. I wonder if they’ve posted about it, since I haven’t checked there lately.
Also, book trailers have become a fairly popular thing to do in the last couple of years. I seem to remember one author, who’d gotten a particularly bad review, filming his grandmother or someone reading the bad review for his trailer. It was hilarious.