Triskaideka Books: 29 books

First appeared in: Cold Flesh 2004 (Hellbound books). Zombie fiction. Two people battle it out trying to survive in a town over-run by 'thinking/hunting' zombies.

A demon trapped in an online game is hell-bent on finding a way out and won't let anyone stand in her way as she transforms into a living virus, infecting the minds of millions as she finally makes her way into the real world, bringing a loyal minon with her. Struggling with life, Lisa uses...

Excerpt: Standing up he scanned the area again...and spotted another wet patch. Walking towards it, he spotted another patch, and another and another. Each one had a slightly different scent. Altogether there were five and every twenty paces or so, there was another patch. Dogs?...

Harold loves Ellen. Ellen loves Harold. In high school, Ellen protected Harold from the school bullies. She kept him safe. And now, years later they are together. Life was perfect until he met a stranger, with no name, in a graveyard. Review: Ellen, Richard Lee Hand it...

Believing they were safe from the Zombie attacks that destroyed the rest of the world ten years earlier, a type of normality had settled over the small seaside community. The Zombies had not arrived. Word spreads that a celebration is to be held in the central city of Wellington, taking...

When scars itch and fantasy bleeds into reality, Warwick knows the Panther is coming. The beast roaming inside him needs feeding. On hunt night, it rips free of the human flesh, and the world burns.  Short story

Jacob is the hunted one. Locked in a room he can't escape, he has no choice but to watch the sixes as they arrive. The fear of their arrival sends him spirling into madness, where a painting of a boat on a beach captures his mind. 

Danny falls in love with Luki. He calls her his Asian princess.  One day, she drops a bombshell. Her visa has expired and she must return to Japan.  Alone, Danny decides he needs to find Luki and he hops on a plane to Japan.  Strolling through the park, one night, he is attacked and bitten by a wolf.  He stumbles away from the scene determined to find his Asian princess. 

The end of times is upon us. A haunted well is hooked up to the main town water supply, unleashing a different kind of creature that can inhabit the skin of others. As the town dies, one woman battles to say alive. (Finalist in the Sir Julius Vogel Awards)

Marcus discovers a glitch in the machine. A glitch is good. He can escape. The machine is always watching. Always aware. Humans are its slaves.  The machine controls his actions. Forces him to play nice.  The glitch is a gift from God. An opportunity he could not pass up. And watch out if anyone gets in his way.  Freedom from the machine. That's all he wants. 

Zombies in Space The Kentucky Pride ship pulls alongside a dead ship. Life sign reading: 1 A child, innocent, amongst a sea of dead bodies. Surviving, hiding. The dead are hungry.

A short story of love and madness. Three years ago Phillip lost his wife. She was his entire world. He has hundreds of photographs of her. On the anniversary of her passing, he noticed a crack in the photo of his wife. That's unusual. He replaces the photo. It is also cracked. He checks every...

AI goes haywire considering the existence of God, while a patient lies is status recovering from a violent car accident.  Sarah thought she had it all. The loving husband, a good job, the perfect life, until a collision with a Semi changed all that. Now she watches her husband undergo nano...

The tower was impossibly large and impossibly black. It rose high in the green sky.  Aaron has watched over the tower his entire adult life. He is now an old man, and climbing the steps to his throne, his water seat, is not as easy as it once was. He has chest pains and is sometimes short...