A Handful of Zombies: Tales of the Restless Dead

by David A. Riley, Jim Pitts (Illustrator)

A Handful of Tales of the Restless Dead e-chapbook number 1 includes four stories by David A. Dead Ronnie and I, His Pale Blue Eyes, Right For You Now, and Romero's Children.
Dead Ronnie and I was first published in Sanitarium Magazine issue 44 in 2010.
His Pale Blue Eyes was first published in Bite-Sezed Horror, edited by Johnny Mains for Obverse Books in 2011. Right for You Now was published in 2021 in Weirdbook's Zombie Annual. The final tale, Romero's Children was first published in The Seventh Black Book of Horror in 2010 and was subsequently picked up by American editor Paul Guran for her anthology Extreme Zombies.

72 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 19, 2022

About the author

David A. Riley writes horror, fantasy and SF stories. In 1995, along with his wife, Linden, he edited and published a fantasy/SF magazine, Beyond. His first professionally published story was in the 11th Pan Book of Horror in 1970. This was reprinted in 2012 in The Century's Best Horror Fiction edited by John Pelan for Cemetery Dance. He has had numerous stories published by Doubleday, DAW, Corgi, Sphere, Roc, Playboy Paperbacks, Robinsons, etc., and in magazines such as Aboriginal Science Fiction, Dark Discoveries, Fear, Fantasy Tales. His first collection of stories (4 long stories and a novelette) was published by Hazardous Press in 2012, His Own Mad Demons. A Lovecraftian novel, The Return, was published by Blood Bound Books in the States in 2013. A second collection of his stories, all of which were professionally published prior to 2000, The Lurkers in the Abyss & Other Tales of Terror, was launched at the World Fantasy Convention in 2013. His fantasy novel, Goblin Mire, was published by Parallel Universe Publications in 2015. Their Cramped Dark World is his third collection of short stories. With his wife, Linden, he runs a small press called Parallel Universe Publications, which has so far published ten books. His stories have been translated into Italian, German, Spanish and Russian.