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Snatched: A Zombie Short Story
Bedlam Lunatic Asylum - 1888.
When Alfred Bartlett, Night Porter at the asylum is not occupied treading the lonely corridors, ensuring the patients cause no trouble during the dark hours, he's busy running a side business - Selling the most interesting lunatics to the highest bidder.
However, after one such lunatic (with strange zombie-like tendencies) attracts the attention of a travelling freak show in Victorian England, Bartlett's lucrative yet risky sideline is beset with problems.
When Alfred Bartlett, Night Porter at the asylum is not occupied treading the lonely corridors, ensuring the patients cause no trouble during the dark hours, he's busy running a side business - Selling the most interesting lunatics to the highest bidder.
However, after one such lunatic (with strange zombie-like tendencies) attracts the attention of a travelling freak show in Victorian England, Bartlett's lucrative yet risky sideline is beset with problems.
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Published May 1, 2021
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K. Bartholomew
31 books7 followersZombie author K. Bartholomew. I live in Leeds, UK and I write zombie fiction for real fans of the genre.
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October 7, 2019
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I enjoyed the short story. I can't wait to read more of your writing in the future. You are a good author.
I enjoyed the short story. I can't wait to read more of your writing in the future. You are a good author.
June 21, 2018
This was fun, but way too short for my taste! When I saw that the book came in at over 200 pages, I was stoked for another Strappy Not Dead Yet: A Zombie Apocalypse Series - Book 1 adventure; that is, a full length story that combines history and zombies, two things that are near and dear to my heart. And author Bartholomew delivered a nifty tale of kidnapping and deceit in one of London's asylums. Although the story seemed to deal primarily with night guard Bartlett, who's been making extra cash by selling off some of his more unique patients, the real characters seemed to be the thieving duo of Malone the dwarf and Hobbs the giant, a typical smart midget/dumb oaf pairing who apparently hid darker secrets.
There were elements in the story that I wanted more of - I would have liked to see/read more of Bartlett's earlier forays into criminality - his spontaneous combustion excuse for the mysterious disappearance of a pair of conjoined twins was just too ludicrous. And there's an episode of a swollen, infected ankle that will probably stay with me for a long time. Ultimately, however, I was sorely disappointed when the story ended at 17% into the book (!@!!!fuckety fuck fuck!!) - not with a cliffhanger, thank God, but with at least an authorial promise for more to come. The rest of the book was bonus content of Strappy's tale part one. Since I'd already read it, I wasn't too thrilled with this sharp and entirely unexpected turn of events. I would have much preferred to have known this information beforehand had it been in the book's description. So, overall a disappointment, but nonetheless good overall.
There were elements in the story that I wanted more of - I would have liked to see/read more of Bartlett's earlier forays into criminality - his spontaneous combustion excuse for the mysterious disappearance of a pair of conjoined twins was just too ludicrous. And there's an episode of a swollen, infected ankle that will probably stay with me for a long time. Ultimately, however, I was sorely disappointed when the story ended at 17% into the book (!@!!!fuckety fuck fuck!!) - not with a cliffhanger, thank God, but with at least an authorial promise for more to come. The rest of the book was bonus content of Strappy's tale part one. Since I'd already read it, I wasn't too thrilled with this sharp and entirely unexpected turn of events. I would have much preferred to have known this information beforehand had it been in the book's description. So, overall a disappointment, but nonetheless good overall.
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