David Wellington - Duke of Horror
If King's the King, and Koontz is the Printz, then Wellington's the Duke of Horror.
In 2004, author Dave Wellington decided to try something different. A blog novel. Together with Alex Lencicki, who organised the publishing and publicity on Brokentype, Dave began an intensive regime of writing and posting one chapter every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. And that hasn't changed in over three years and six novels. Four of these novels have been published so far by Thunder's Mouth Press and Three Rivers Press.
But it was the running commentary by the group of loyal Wellington fans, many of whom are still commenting three times a week, that made the concept stand out. I'll introduce you to some of the faithful later.
But first... here's Dave's stuff.
I would place the age guidelines at around PG-13, but suggest that parents take their children's maturity levels into consideration.
If you're trying to get your teen to read something more than an SMS, try these books.
Monster Island
Monster Island was the novel that began the serialised horror campaign.The world has gone mad. In just a few days ordinary people starting turning into Zombies, and UN Weapons Inspector Dekalb discovers that the safest place on Earth now happens to be Somalia.
Unfortunately, he has to buy citizenship for himself and his daughter - the cost is anti-retroviral drugs. And Dekalb knows where to get them.
Together with a small army of female Somalian child soldiers, Dekalb returns by boat to New York, to steal a supply of drugs from UN headquarters.
Meanwhile, in Manhattan, medical student Gary decides if he's doomed to become a zombie, he's going down with a full oxygen supply to his brain. A few hours later, Gary wakes feeling very little difference - except he's dead. And he's just a little peckish.
And just to add to the fun - over at the Natural History Museum in Manhattan, the Egyptian mummies on display have started waking, along with an ancient Celtic druid who thinks he knows exactly what's going on.
Monster Island: A Zombie Novel
Amazon Price: $10.94 (as of 07/10/2009) 
Read Monster Island for free
- Monster Island
- Please note that this website contains graphic textual depictions of violence and gore and is not appropriate for sensitive or very young readers.
Monster Nation
Monster Nation is the prequel to Monster Island, and explains how the Zombie epidemic occured.A yoga instructor in California, takes refuge in an oxygen bar after she is inexplicably bitten by a mad man she hit with her car.
Unfortunately, she doesn't remember much of her life before she was bitten - not her name, her history, or where she lives. She calls herself Nilla when asked, because she has "nil" memory.
Then a helpful being contacts her and offers his help. He knows her real name, and he'll tell her everything he knows about her if she can get herself across the country to Manhattan.
Nilla doesn't have much choice but to run towards New York when the police start hunting her down, even though the helpful stranger claims to be an ancient Celtic druid awakened into undeath by the same epidemic that is turning everyone into Zombies. Celtic druid? Who's he kidding, right?
Monster Nation: A Zombie Novel
Amazon Price: $10.94 (as of 07/10/2009)
Read Monster Nation for free
- Monster Nation
- Please note that this website contains graphic textual depictions of violence and gore and is not appropriate for sensitive or very young readers.
Monster Planet
Monster Planet is set twelve years following Monster Island.Dekalb's daughter, Sarah, is now grown up. After her father failed to return from Manhattan with the few Somalian child soldiers who survived, Sarah was raised as a warrior by Ayaan, one of the heroines of Monster Island.
Now Ayaan has been kidnapped by a group of intelligent zombies with frightening superpowers, and Sarah joins forces with Ptolemy, once the all-powerful ruler of Egypt and now a voiceless undead mummy, to rescue her mentor and find out what really happened to her father all those years ago.
Monster Planet: A Zombie Novel
Amazon Price: $11.66 (as of 07/10/2009)
Read Monster Planet for free
- Monster Planet
- Please note that this website contains graphic textual depictions of violence and gore and is not appropriate for sensitive or very young readers.
13 Bullets
Wellington moves away from zombies in this book, and straight into the jaws of vampires.When State Trooper Laura Caxton pulls over a car for a routine drink driving check, the second last thing she expects to find in the trunk are body parts. The last thing she expects to find, after chasing the driver over a barbed wire fence, is a severed arm that moves by itself.
Most civilians believe that vampires, active until the 1980s, have become extinct. But Special Deputy Arkeley believes differently. He's been waiting for evidence of vampirism for twenty years, ever since he was captured by one of the last vampires, and escaped.
Laura's crime scene is Arkeley's evidence. And for some reason Laura can't understand yet, Arkeley has requested a new partner for the case. Her.
13 Bullets
Amazon Price: $10.94 (as of 07/10/2009)
Read 13 Bullets for free
- 13 Bullets
- Please note that this website contains graphic textual depictions of violence and gore and is not appropriate for sensitive or very young readers.
13 Bullets book trailer
13 Bullets - The Evolution of Horror
A video inspired by David Wellington's new novel, 13 Bullets. In bookstores now. Turn your volume up! And watch to the end. http://www.thirteenbullets.com http://www.jennrose.com
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More free Wellington reads online
- Frostbite
- Chey is hunting for a werewolf. Specifically the werewolf who killed her father. Can she track him down, or will he find her first?
- Plague Zone
- Plague Zone was completed in early September 2007. Dave is planning the next serial for 2008.
From the blurb: "There are half a million zombies in Seattle. He's looking for just one."
Dave Wellington on tour in San Francisco
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Dave Wellington at his first convention following the publication of Monster Island in paperback.
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Your intrepid hero, getting ready to deal!
Monica Kuebler from Rue Morgue magazine introduced me around and really made it ...
The man himself, the zombie writer and me. Brian was really cool and a lot of f...
They had a film to show... and then their sound guy walked. They had nothing be...
Otis from The Devil's Rejects.
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Dave Wellington online
- Hail Horrors
- The forum/message board for Dave Wellington fans. Join the chatter.
- Dave Wellington
- News and updates on Dave's work and upcoming appearances.
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