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Year of the Zombie #8
Scratch
They don’t want to kill you, they don’t want to eat your brains, they just want to infect you.
One scratch and you’re history.
Jody’s up against it this morning. She's stuck in a tent on her own with three kids in the middle of nowhere, and it’s the beginning of the end of the world. Her car’s on fumes, they're miles from anywhere, and things are looking bleak.
It looks like there’s only one place left for Jody to go. Trouble is, it’s the last place on earth she wants to be. Impending armageddon and massive hordes of sick, undead creatures have nothing on the personal horrors she'll have to face here.
Either way, she's screwed.
One scratch and it's all over.
A brand new infection from the author of HATER, AUTUMN and STRANGERS.
One scratch and you’re history.
Jody’s up against it this morning. She's stuck in a tent on her own with three kids in the middle of nowhere, and it’s the beginning of the end of the world. Her car’s on fumes, they're miles from anywhere, and things are looking bleak.
It looks like there’s only one place left for Jody to go. Trouble is, it’s the last place on earth she wants to be. Impending armageddon and massive hordes of sick, undead creatures have nothing on the personal horrors she'll have to face here.
Either way, she's screwed.
One scratch and it's all over.
A brand new infection from the author of HATER, AUTUMN and STRANGERS.
83 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 30, 2016
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About the author
David Moody
77 books1,258 followersDavid Moody first released Hater in 2006, and without an agent, succeeded in selling the film rights for the novel to Mark Johnson (producer, Breaking Bad) and Guillermo Del Toro (director, The Shape of Water, Pan's Labyrinth). Moody's seminal zombie novel Autumn was made into a movie starring Dexter Fletcher and David Carradine. He has an unhealthy fascination with the end of the world and likes to write books about ordinary folks going through absolute hell. With the publication of continuing Hater and Autumn stories, Moody has cemented his reputation as a writer of suspense-laced SF/horror, and "farther out" genre books of all description.
Find out more about his work at www.davidmoody.net and www.infectedbooks.co.uk, and join Moody's mailing list to keep up with new releases.
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August 12, 2016
Nobody. I mean nobody does family dysfunction as well as David Moody. The shit has hit the fan and the world is falling down all around us; leave it to David Moody to make us forget all about that, to watch the train wreck of a nasty divorced couple.
David Moody has put his own little twist on your traditional zombie. The undead are no longer in a relentless quest for brains; all they really want to do is spread the infection, and one little scratch is all that it takes.
I was immediately pulled into Jody’s world. A good, frustrated, caring mother on her own with three kids. I think that we have all had our camping nightmares – tents that fall down, equipment that doesn’t work, then add not one, but three kids to the mix. Jody had my sympathy even before the first undead stumbled along. Compound upon that, her ex, Gary, what an ass; somebody needed to smack him.
Scratch is a fantastic, quick story. It really highlights how people react to each other when all hell breaks loose.
David Moody has put his own little twist on your traditional zombie. The undead are no longer in a relentless quest for brains; all they really want to do is spread the infection, and one little scratch is all that it takes.
I was immediately pulled into Jody’s world. A good, frustrated, caring mother on her own with three kids. I think that we have all had our camping nightmares – tents that fall down, equipment that doesn’t work, then add not one, but three kids to the mix. Jody had my sympathy even before the first undead stumbled along. Compound upon that, her ex, Gary, what an ass; somebody needed to smack him.
Scratch is a fantastic, quick story. It really highlights how people react to each other when all hell breaks loose.
February 9, 2021
Magnificent!
The best one, yet!
I am definitely enjoying this series. Not just because I love zombies, but because this is a fantastic series!
Jody and her children are camping out when they are attacked by an old woman. The woman is determined to scratch them, but they all manage to escape.
She heads to her ex-husband’s house for safety and they spend her whole time there arguing. Seriously, I mean the whole time.
They argue so much that I wish the zombies would get into the house and kill them. They barely notice that they have three terrified children.
Will Jody and her ex, Gary, stop arguing? Will they get away to a safe place? Will the zombies get sick of listening to them arguing? Will their children push them out of the house?
Seriously, though...if you enjoy reading about zombies, give this book a try. You’ll love it.
The best one, yet!
I am definitely enjoying this series. Not just because I love zombies, but because this is a fantastic series!
Jody and her children are camping out when they are attacked by an old woman. The woman is determined to scratch them, but they all manage to escape.
She heads to her ex-husband’s house for safety and they spend her whole time there arguing. Seriously, I mean the whole time.
They argue so much that I wish the zombies would get into the house and kill them. They barely notice that they have three terrified children.
Will Jody and her ex, Gary, stop arguing? Will they get away to a safe place? Will the zombies get sick of listening to them arguing? Will their children push them out of the house?
Seriously, though...if you enjoy reading about zombies, give this book a try. You’ll love it.
August 26, 2016
Yet another one of the thrilling, gory, terrifying short zombie stories I expect and adore from David Moody. As usual, he dumps readers right into the action with characters that aren't stereotypical, but real, actual people you might see on the street. The main character, Jody, is someone we've all met before. That depressed, stern, but determined and loving mother who wants the best for her children, and who is openly hostile to her ex. Jody's devotion gets truly tested when a random virus breaks out that turns victims with a single scratch. It's chaos from there, a true testament to Moody's style and skill. This is a very short read, but if you like family drama with your zombie stories, this is definitely a story to check out.
August 1, 2016
This is a very exciting read. It grabbed my attention from the very beginning. It has conflict, love and sacrifice that comes from a well written story. I highly recommend it. It's a short but riveting novella. Enjoy!
August 28, 2024
It's been a while since I read something by David, so I grabbed this novella, as novella length books are my preference these days. I absolutely loved this one. It's a fast paced zombie tale with some heart. Great characters and it's well paced. I flew through it.
August 18, 2016
David moody returns to the zombie apocalypse with a novella featuring a different kind of undead than we've been used to in his Autumn series.
When Jody is caught out in the middle of nowhere with her three children when the world starts going to hell, she is forced to take shelter at the one place that she really doesn't want to be.
To say any more would be to give too much away, but Moody has once again delivered resounding proof that nobody writes zombie fiction quite like he does, and that he'll be wearing that (rotting0 crown for some time to come.
Scratch also serves as the latest installment in the Year of the Zombie release schedule, which is seeing twelve stand alone zombie novellas released, one a moth, and all of which thus far have been varied and worth a read.
When Jody is caught out in the middle of nowhere with her three children when the world starts going to hell, she is forced to take shelter at the one place that she really doesn't want to be.
To say any more would be to give too much away, but Moody has once again delivered resounding proof that nobody writes zombie fiction quite like he does, and that he'll be wearing that (rotting0 crown for some time to come.
Scratch also serves as the latest installment in the Year of the Zombie release schedule, which is seeing twelve stand alone zombie novellas released, one a moth, and all of which thus far have been varied and worth a read.
October 8, 2016
Scratch is the 8th book in Infected Books Year of the Zombie series. David Moody is the author offering up this tasty little morsel of Zombie hell. He delivers a book that has a different feel to the rest of the series so far.
This book tells the story of a single mum and her kids on a camping trip the day all hell breaks look. This Zombie virus is a lot more nasty then your garden variety. All this one takes is a single scratch and you turn. She turns to her ex-husband and new partner for safety but it does not turn out smelling like roses for all concerned.
This book tells the story of a single mum and her kids on a camping trip the day all hell breaks look. This Zombie virus is a lot more nasty then your garden variety. All this one takes is a single scratch and you turn. She turns to her ex-husband and new partner for safety but it does not turn out smelling like roses for all concerned.
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