Valhalla Unleashed

by Garry Charles

What happens when a Viking long boat is discovered down a UK coal mine? What happen's when the passengers are undead and hungry for flesh? This is that story... This special edition has extra features in the form of three journal entries found after the zombie outbreak.

Genres: Horror, Zombies

24 pages, Nook

First published October 27, 2010

Reviews

[chucklesthescot · Rating 3 out of 5]

When a Viking Longboat and its corpse crew are found buried deep inside a coal mine countless miles from the sea, it is an incredible historical find. Miners and experts are anxious to get underground, the miners to get back to digging and the experts to see the boat...but in the dark the corpses are not dead.

This was a fun gory horror short story with Viking zombies and death in the dark. There were the usual obnoxious cast of miners and supervisors who were rude, sexist and annoying but who cares when most are going to be chomped! I'm never bothered much about character development in something short and this was an enjoyable story. Now as a woman I have seen my share of sexist gits and this book has them in abundance but I have to admit that I was laughing at the sole woman's furious outbursts at their comments and I was still laughing when the zombies started coming towards her while she was taking a toilet break. I mean, it would have to happen like that wouldn't it! There you are stuck underground with your bladder on critical and you find a dark corner to go to and the zombies are coming to eat you! It follows the usual plot of people wandering around in the dark and getting eaten but what do you expect in a zombie short story?

My confusion about this is the content of the ebook. On p16 the press are waiting to hear about what has been found, on p17 we are reading extracts from someone's diaries about zombies. Now is this the same book or a totally different short story? That is never explained which was a bit annoying. I'm assuming that it is a different story or at least a different story relating to the same outbreak but I'd like to know for sure.

Not the greatest horror story ever told but it was a nice short zombie filled read.

[Mati · Rating 2 out of 5]

There was the breaking trough discovery of Viking longboat in the depths of English mine. Wait! Boats should not be under the ground far from the sea. You were warned with oddity that the boat would have very specific crew. Indeed poor sons of Odin were there for centuries quite pissed of and very hungry. Time to have fun with the miners, who wanted gold coins, with team of archaeologists who decided to be first to publish it in Nature...well their failed, because who would read Nature after Zombie outbreak.

So zombie Vikings ate and infected their way up to the ground with gruesome manner of introducing character, who was eaten after five or ten sentences if lucky if not they were eaten in the introduction.

The gore mixed with very detailed description of urinating female member of archaeological team followed by necro rape is really the thing you want to read about after diner.

Yuck.

[Alex Laybourne · Rating 4 out of 5]

This short story had everything that I was looking for. It was well paced, the action and blood flowed thick and fast, the setting was sufficiently creepy. The characters were as developed as a story of this length could allow without detracting from the horror. The zombies were something a little different, and some of the descriptions were sufficiently gruesome to have me feeling momentarily repulsed.

I thorougly recomment this short story to anybody who is up for a good hard and fast scare.

[Sam · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a superb little story that certainly stands out from the usual Zombie fare. It tells of the discovery of a Viking Longboat within a UK coal mine whose passengers are not quite as dead as you’d expect. Brilliantly and vividly written with excellent descriptions and surprising depth to the characters (well the ones that are living anyway) given the length of the story. I particularly enjoyed that additional journal extracts at the end that hint at the outcome of the discovery. A definite must read for all Zombie fans, can’t wait to read more by this author

[S. Spelbring · Rating 3 out of 5]

A very gory zombie re-telling. Zombies have been done to death recently, but it was interesting to see this author's take on the subject.

[Janis · Rating 4 out of 5]

Again a really great premise for a new zombie idea but its only a short story! I would love to see this one "fleshed" out - how did the Viking boat get into the coal mine?!

[Keith · Rating 4 out of 5]

'Valhalla Unleashed' is a short gory zombie story taking place in a British coal mine. The Viking zombies are hungry after waiting many centuries.