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Down with the Fallen: A Post-Apocalyptic Horror Anthology
16 POST-APOCALYPTIC HORROR STORIES
One day the world as we know it will end.
Will it become a place of stark divisions where the lower class's best hope is a quick death, or a world infested with the undead? Maybe the end will come quietly at our own hands, or as a crack in the Earth's very surface, or at the hand of an alien race hell-bent on our destruction? Will a hero be there to save us or will they be the end of us?
Do you really want to know?
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EXCERPTS:
"There were bodies but they weren't bodies anymore. It's like he had rearranged their atoms, blended and melted them together. It was around seven or eight feet tall. Flesh, melted and fused, arms and legs and screaming mouths and wide open eyes, all as one. Skin stretched and distorted, veins and intestines interwoven across the surface like twine over a ball. It was the enemy. It was a horror of meat and tissue.
And then one of the eyes blinked and all I remember was rushing for the exit, falling to my knees outside, retching into the dirt, gasping for air."
-Men of Tomorrow, Jack Lothian
"But you don't really know what I am talking about, do you? Well, if you had asked Beth, she probably would have regaled you with all the details, beginning to end. 'Cause she followed it, you know? She didn't work, choosing to stay home with Biya till she started first grade. So Beth followed it night and day while it was happening until-- Well. She followed it. I wish I had followed it. I keep going over it in my head now, wondering if I had taken it more seriously at the beginning, if I had seen how quickly it was becoming scary, how I might have decided to get my family out of the city. I heard some people did that. I heard a lot of people say they were going as far as Canada."
-To Market, To Market, J.C. Raye
"His hand wrapped around my ankle, and he yanked me backward. I dug my fingernails into the tile floor. The strain as my nails began to separate from the cuticles was the most bearable pain that I would feel for a long time."
-The Monsters of Bear Mountain, S.E. Stone
STORIES BY:
Jack Lothian - Men of Tomorrow
Tobey Alexander - Thirteen Days
M.B. Vujacic - Freshmint
Rohit Sawant - The Pack
Mary Victoria Johnson - Heathfolk
J.C. Raye - To Market, To Market
Jeremy Megargee - The Rip
S.E. Stone - The Monsters of Bear Mountain
Marvin Brown - Grandfather's Room
Jessica Clem - Slits
Jordon Greene - Forbidden
Irina Slav - A Year Later
Christine Stabile - Dry Leaves
Garrett Kirby - The Other
Hekter Kaztro - The Many Faces of the Beautiful People
Gregory L. Norris - Vortex
One day the world as we know it will end.
Will it become a place of stark divisions where the lower class's best hope is a quick death, or a world infested with the undead? Maybe the end will come quietly at our own hands, or as a crack in the Earth's very surface, or at the hand of an alien race hell-bent on our destruction? Will a hero be there to save us or will they be the end of us?
Do you really want to know?
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
EXCERPTS:
"There were bodies but they weren't bodies anymore. It's like he had rearranged their atoms, blended and melted them together. It was around seven or eight feet tall. Flesh, melted and fused, arms and legs and screaming mouths and wide open eyes, all as one. Skin stretched and distorted, veins and intestines interwoven across the surface like twine over a ball. It was the enemy. It was a horror of meat and tissue.
And then one of the eyes blinked and all I remember was rushing for the exit, falling to my knees outside, retching into the dirt, gasping for air."
-Men of Tomorrow, Jack Lothian
"But you don't really know what I am talking about, do you? Well, if you had asked Beth, she probably would have regaled you with all the details, beginning to end. 'Cause she followed it, you know? She didn't work, choosing to stay home with Biya till she started first grade. So Beth followed it night and day while it was happening until-- Well. She followed it. I wish I had followed it. I keep going over it in my head now, wondering if I had taken it more seriously at the beginning, if I had seen how quickly it was becoming scary, how I might have decided to get my family out of the city. I heard some people did that. I heard a lot of people say they were going as far as Canada."
-To Market, To Market, J.C. Raye
"His hand wrapped around my ankle, and he yanked me backward. I dug my fingernails into the tile floor. The strain as my nails began to separate from the cuticles was the most bearable pain that I would feel for a long time."
-The Monsters of Bear Mountain, S.E. Stone
STORIES BY:
Jack Lothian - Men of Tomorrow
Tobey Alexander - Thirteen Days
M.B. Vujacic - Freshmint
Rohit Sawant - The Pack
Mary Victoria Johnson - Heathfolk
J.C. Raye - To Market, To Market
Jeremy Megargee - The Rip
S.E. Stone - The Monsters of Bear Mountain
Marvin Brown - Grandfather's Room
Jessica Clem - Slits
Jordon Greene - Forbidden
Irina Slav - A Year Later
Christine Stabile - Dry Leaves
Garrett Kirby - The Other
Hekter Kaztro - The Many Faces of the Beautiful People
Gregory L. Norris - Vortex
266 pages, Paperback
First published November 7, 2017
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November 27, 2017
I had a great time reading all the stories for this anthology. It has a little of everything, from aliens to zombies, to the dystopian to the slasher. If you like post/apocalyptic reads, you’ll find something in Down with the Fallen for you.
August 31, 2018
I usually approach short story collections with a feeling of trepidation. Tend to find a mix of the excellent, good, adequate and downright awful with them, even with some of my favourite authors. Delighted to state that every single entry in this volume of post apocalyptic stories is really rather good. Even the zombie tales. Some very clever writing with fresh and original takes on some common themes in the world of, well, the end of the world.
Ray Smillie
Ray Smillie
March 26, 2018
Post apocalyptic anthology
It's a collection of good and not so good end of the world scenarios. They range from sci-fi, horror and somewhere in between. For post apocalyptic fans.
It's a collection of good and not so good end of the world scenarios. They range from sci-fi, horror and somewhere in between. For post apocalyptic fans.
June 21, 2018
The Pack by Rohit Sawant and To Market,To Market by JC Ray are incredible.
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