Jay Wilburn has a Masters Degree in Education that goes mostly unused since he quit teaching to write about zombies. Jay writes horror because he tends to find the light by facing down the darkness. His is doing well following a life saving kidney transplant. Jay is the author of Maidens of Zombie Kingdom a young adult fantasy trilogy, Lake Scatter Wood Tales adventure books for elementary and middle school readers, Vampire Christ a trilogy of political and religious satire, and The Dead Song Legend. He cowrote The Enemy Held Near, Yard Full of Bones, and The Hidden Truth with Armand Rosamilia. You can also find Jay's work in Best Horror of the Year volume 5. He is a staff writer with Dark Moon Digest, LitReactor, and the Still Water Bay series with Crystal Lake Publishing.
by Adrienne Lecter Let’s not debate how realistic the central premise of a zombie apocalypse is—options vary greatly from contaminated food to a randomly mutated virus outbreak—but instead revel in the glory that is raw, gory truth. Because let’s face it—if the undead rise and you manage to survive the first, say, week or so, …
by Ken Stark My dive into the undead pool began with questions. I spent a lot of years studying the sciences, so even though I’ve loved zombies since forever, I’ve had my problems with them too. Why don’t zombies’ eyes dry out? With no peristalsis and no active salivary glands, how do they swallow their …
FALLEN, a Flash prequel, only available in the Undead Worlds anthology! I’ve wanted to get Harold the Anchorman’s story out there for quite some time and I’m excited to present it with 21 other Zombie themed stories! What better way to celebrate than to give something back to my readers! Come on over and sign …
* The truck sputters to a stop and Jay Wilburn curses as he steps out. He sees the collapsed and abandoned tents from the old army camp. He’s already searched them, but he heads that direction to see if there is anything else he might be able to use. Maybe fuel for the truck. * …
* The truck rolls to a stop on the coastal highway. James Dean and two other men step out. They pace out a few feet ahead to the sound of the waves. The men hold their weapons at the ready as Dean marks off towns, neighborhoods, and resorts they already searched on the map with …
*With the armies gathered behind, they face Armand Rosamilia’s forces under the next overpass on the freeway. This is Florida, so there is no high ground and no clear winner yet. Chris Philbrook stands at the front of combined forces of the survivors. The Warlord Rosamilia has grown his numbers through his treasury of M&M’s.* …
by Jay Wilburn Great zombie stories build the human characters in the midst of the zombie monsters. Still, there is a need to build the monsters whether they are zombies, vampires, werewolves, a surrogate for these tropes, or something completely new. Zombies can be mindless and empty, but there has to be something built into …
*The army stops for the night. Jay Wilburn still wants to leave, but zombies continue to close in on all sides of the camp where posted guards wait to take care of them. He wanders through and notices a familiar face in one of the tents. James Schannep studies flowcharts hanging around the inside of …
*Jay Wilburn works his way through the slow moving vehicles and the thousands of ragtag warriors marching in uneven groups. Zombies approach the moving column from all sides. Gunmen on top of the vehicles take aim, but hold their fire. Wilburn is amazed at their discipline since many are mercenaries only fighting on the promise …
by Jay Wilburn Making it work as an author of an ongoing series comes down to being able to sell yourself to readers and being able to sell the expanding universe you are wrapping around your stories. It would be easier if we could just sell books like a respectable profession, but “Buy My Book” …
