Diary of A Suburban Zombie

Many of these stories are perfect reading for Halloween, but they are also good genre fits for goth, punk, or those who like the more gentle side of horror. The work contains an assortment of vampire bats, angry pumpkins, insatiable zombies and a good sampling of UFOs. These short stories cover the range of paranormal and Halloween-oriented lore. There are mailbox ghosts, unemployed movie monsters and deranged poets taunting the world.

The stories range from truly infantile, suitable for kids who like scary bedtime stories, or for couples. None of the works are r-rated or x-rated, but some are more suitable young adults than others, though, in today's world, the whole thing might get a g-rating anyhow. The book is perfect to bring to Halloween parties as most of the stories were designed to read aloud a spoken-word readings in under five or six minutes, some are as short as two minutes long. For a voracious reader, the whole thing would take less than an hour to read.

Even the ancient horror-creatures in this book are updated to a modern environment with some of the monsters even having cell phones and jobs to attend to. And while many of the musings are tame compared to violent Hollywood horror flicks, there is still enough blood and violence to placate the restless reader. As the author is more known for his philosophy works, the characters do muse about the meaning of life and the directions their lives are taking, however, as with real life, most end up without arriving at any firm conclusion.

Note: Most of the works in this book originally appeared in poetry form, and this is still the case with the paperback version of the book. The Smashwords version you see here was rewritten entirely for a prose-oriented audience and some of the plots were changed once the strictures of verses were put aside for this special edition.