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Michelle Kilmer

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Born

in The United States

Website

http://www.whenthedead.com

Twitter

whenthedead

Genre

Horror, Fiction, Ebooks

Influences

George A. Romero, Junji Ito, Scott Sigler, Brian Keene, Stephen King, ...more

Member Since

August 2012

URL

https://www.goodreads.com/whenthedead

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Michelle Kilmer (now writing as Michelle von Eschen) is an American author of quiet, literary horror.

Her work includes the novel When the Dead and the novella Mistakes I Made During the Zombie Apocalypse, four short story collections: Last Night While You Were Sleeping, When You Find Out What You’re Made Of, Once Upon a Time, When Things Turned Out Okay, and Old Farmhouses of the North. She is a co-author of The Spread which she wrote with her twin sister, and a co-editor of GIVE: An Anthology of Anatomical Entries. Michelle has also written The Murk of Us, a nonfiction prose and poetry collection documenting the horrors of the toxic empath/narcissist relationship.

Her short stories are featured in several anthologies including Roms, Bombs ...more

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	Mistakes I Made During the Zombie Apocalypse 3.63 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	When the Dead 3.88 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Spread by Michelle Kilmer (Goodreads Author), Rebecca Hansen (co-author) 4.19 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Roms, Bombs & Zoms by Michelle Kilmer (Goodreads Author), Ken MacGregor (Goodreads Author), Katie Cord (Goodreads Author) 3.79 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	When You Find Out What You're Made Of: and Other Stories by Michelle Kilmer (Goodreads Author), Michelle von Eschen (Goodreads Author) 4.65 avg rating — 17 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Last Night While You Were Sleeping 4.25 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Give: An Anthology of Anatomical Entries by Michelle Kilmer (Goodreads Author) (Editor), T.J. Tranchell (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jonathan Lambert 4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mirielle it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Good, Sad, and Weird Good, sad, and weird, but repetitive at times which was the very same issue I had with Convenience Store Woman.
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Michelle Kilmer and 1 other person liked Jia Hui's review of Dead Girls and Dead Things: "Always thought it is impossible that I would enjoy every single story in an anthology. Planned on reading a single story before heading to bed but ended up staying up till 4am to finish the entire book. 13 stories from haunted objects, body horror, g" Read more of this review »
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Michelle Kilmer and 2 other people liked Siobhan Falen's review of Dead Girls and Dead Things: "A delightful collection of horror stories written by female authors with blood, guts, glory, and female vengeance. Like all anthologies, there are some stories that stand out, and there are some that are good but don't quite hit the mark. I really en" Read more of this review »
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“Arthur Ward would be the guy trying to reason with a zombie as it bit into the flesh of his arm.”
― Michelle Kilmer, Mistakes I Made During the Zombie Apocalypse

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