by Jay Wilburn

Brahm Stroker is a sexy question within a steamy mystery wrapped in an erotic enigma. Most of what I share here was told to me by questionable sources and disgraced scholars. Almost none of it can be verified, but it has to be shared.

Brahm Stroker was supposedly born in Buddhapest, Hungry, in 1347 during the Black Death. Inspired by all of the chaos around him during Western Civilization’s greatest outbreak, he wrote down this very prescient epic on a series of parchments which were kept in secrecy in a monastery for over six and a half centuries. These moldy parchments were then recently discovered in an old trunk won at auction by the proprietors of Verboten Books, a boutique publisher based in a very small cottage in the Schwarzwald in Baden-Württemberg. In fact, the cottage was so incredibly small that the firm had to store the trunk outside while very diminutive persons transferred the documents one page at a time to a reading table, carrying them like a bunch of Amazonian ants lifting a very large leaf. Several translators subsequently died from uncontrollable laughter as they attempted to translate the tale into English for the US and UK markets. Stroker himself had succumbed to the Black Death soon after penning the tale — in fact, he likely died before completing it. The publisher remains uncertain as to the completeness of the tale until such a time as all of the parchments have been successfully translated.

As I said, much of this cannot be verified, but what I can tell you is that this initial round of translation resulted in the fascinating zombie tale found in Rated Z: Money Shot: An Anti-Romance. What I find most fascinating is Stroker’s insights into the likely future of humanity. He accurately predicted modern technology, the existence of Oklahoma in a place called the United States, the evolution of modern adult entertainment, and more. He’s like a sexy Nostradamus! Romero is often given credit for the modern concept of the zombie genre, but these finds may have us rewriting that notion as well.

All I know is that we should be on the lookout for more translations of Brahm Stroker’s work to cum … I mean, come.

I hope I have made the case for Brahm Stroker. Check out Rated Z: Money Shot: An Anti-Romance now. It is important that we know our history.

Jay Wilburn

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.

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