Here is a great little Undead Middle Ages Holy Grail Questing tale:
By AL Peevey
Zombies are pretty popular right now, and this serial has a unique setting to the genre: the Middle Ages and plague-ridden England. I haven't read any zombie-lit before, but I was intrigued by this chivalrous mix of dead folks who aren't really dead and knights who are not anxious to join them. I have used the word 'zombie'; however, Mr. Calas does not use it. After all, these are just plague victims on a new diet plan.
Basically, Sir Edward wants to reunite with his wife in Northern England, so he talks fellow knights, Sir Tristan and Sir Morgan, into helping him slash, gash, and viciously trash any plague "afflicted" who get in their way or just stumble into their path. Besides zombie-types, Sir Edward and his companions encounter other knights with agendas not coinciding with the trio's own, an invading French army, and an entrepreneur with the beyond disgusting audacity to use zombie women as prostitutes. The results of such unthinkable congress are disastrous!
Mr. Calas has given us, in installments, a raunchy, blood-splattered tale seasoned with expletives as well as other bodily fluids. He has also done his research well, sandwiching in historical notes between each chapter. They add authenticity to this nausea-inducing story. Yeah, I know. Nobody made me read it, and since there's at least one more installment left, I will finish it because I just have to know: Does Sir Edward ever get to his wife? Will it be the homecoming he longs for?
If this is your kind of reading, it should satisfy that undead appetite of yours!
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