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Fort
The dead have risen.
A group of college students are trapped in a dormitory. Help should be on the way...but will it arrive too late?
Food supplies are dwindling and the only plan is a desperate dash to the dining hall for provisions. In the world before, it was a simple five-minute walk.... now it is a perilous journey through a land of the undead.
Mark Allan Gunnells takes you back to the world he created with Asylum and puts you behind the walls of FORT!
A group of college students are trapped in a dormitory. Help should be on the way...but will it arrive too late?
Food supplies are dwindling and the only plan is a desperate dash to the dining hall for provisions. In the world before, it was a simple five-minute walk.... now it is a perilous journey through a land of the undead.
Mark Allan Gunnells takes you back to the world he created with Asylum and puts you behind the walls of FORT!
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164 pages, Paperback
First published November 19, 2015
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November 21, 2021
Mark Allan Gunnells has an engaging zombie survival horror novella with FORT. And it was different than I expected (in a good way) based on how most of the media has portrayed, romanticized, and exploited "zombie porn" over the last decade or so. FORT takes you on a wonderful character study as there are some rich backstories and genuine character development that take place. These students are trapped on campus during an outbreak but are running out of food. Proper help is allegedly 1-2 months away and they know their food will be long gone by then. So this tale of zombie survival becomes just that - all about survival. There's way more focus on the main characters and their growth than the "dead-heads" aka zombies. And I truly loved that! Gunnells has such a way with words, descriptions, and scene setups that you become fully invested in these kids' lives (and you will love some more than others, that's for sure). I highly recommend FORT and am looking forward to checking out ASYLUM, which is another zombie novella in the same universe that came out a couple of years prior.
December 9, 2015
"This story is somewhere between a short story and a novella. It’s in that grey area that no one seems to have come up with a name for as yet. I can, however, tell you with some certainty that even though it is short, it packs a hell of a lot in and has plenty of meat on its bones, if you will pardon the pun."
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November 22, 2015
Mark Allan Gunnells breathes new life (if that's an appropriate thing to say when zombies are concerned) into the zombie genre with Fort. Set in the same timeline as his previous novella Asylum (which was great), Fort follows the fate of a group of college students trapped in a dorm building when the zombie outbreak occurs. What sets Fort apart from other zombie stories is the rich depth Gunnells brings to his characters, as well as the level of horror. I finished Fort several days ago and I'm still haunted by the ending. Highly recommended.
May 5, 2017
Fort Rules!
This is an excellent short but powerful zombie tale. I thought the character development was fantastic for such a quick read. I also loved the background story for each of the characters, and the dynamic that existed between them. I almost wish it had been a complete novel, but it's fantastic just as it is. Very good!
This is an excellent short but powerful zombie tale. I thought the character development was fantastic for such a quick read. I also loved the background story for each of the characters, and the dynamic that existed between them. I almost wish it had been a complete novel, but it's fantastic just as it is. Very good!
September 23, 2023
This is yet another Gunnells book that I loved. He is quietly creeping up on my favorite authors. His books are easy to read and have rich characters, even in novellas like this one. Good read, great ending!
October 31, 2018
A great companion piece to The Asylum.
Proof that a good writer can make even the most worn genre of horror readable.
Proof that a good writer can make even the most worn genre of horror readable.
December 15, 2015
Following the novella Asylum, author Mark Allan Gunnells is bringing back the dead (again) in the novella Fort, which takes place in the same universe as Asylum, includes some playful character crossover, and once more follows classic zombie conventions.
Fort focuses on a band of kids trapped in a dorm building during an outbreak, and getting just as hungry as the zombies. Flashbacks are injected to further develop characters and establish how they all ended up at the same place at the same time. Even so, the main focus is on the current predicament of the characters and how each one reacts to the situation, which leads to a zinger ending.
Just like Asylum, Fort is a fast read—you might even say a feeding frenzy for fans of the undead—and could easily be part of a longer collection of short novellas that take place during the same zombie outbreak. Will we ever find out how the epidemic began? Will we ever learn if it’s squelched? We’ll just have to see. Now that Gunnells has two living dead tales under his belt, perhaps he’s working on more.
Fort focuses on a band of kids trapped in a dorm building during an outbreak, and getting just as hungry as the zombies. Flashbacks are injected to further develop characters and establish how they all ended up at the same place at the same time. Even so, the main focus is on the current predicament of the characters and how each one reacts to the situation, which leads to a zinger ending.
Just like Asylum, Fort is a fast read—you might even say a feeding frenzy for fans of the undead—and could easily be part of a longer collection of short novellas that take place during the same zombie outbreak. Will we ever find out how the epidemic began? Will we ever learn if it’s squelched? We’ll just have to see. Now that Gunnells has two living dead tales under his belt, perhaps he’s working on more.
April 7, 2016
Sort of a combination of simultaneous companion/sequel to Asylum, Fort borrows some of the same characters briefly, introduces new ones, and goes further into this outbreak than its predecessor. Here a few survivors are held up in a dorm but soon food runs out, so does people's sanity. More characterization than Asylum, more violence as well. Can be read on its own, in my opinion. But why?
August 14, 2016
Fun with zombies! Gunnells rocks this story with a college scene kegger and zombies in FORT. If you're looking for a lot of history, bioscience, etc., you won't find it here. What you will find is well-written novella, center cut entertainment, without a lot of filler. I enjoyed FORT and Gunnells' style and highly recommend it.
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