PRAY TO STAY DEAD

The Walking Dead meets Deliverance. A terrifying zombie novel set in the 1970s, for fans of zombies and gruesome horror movies.

1974. The OPEC oil crisis is a fading memory, the Cold War rages on, and the dead walk the Earth to devour the living. Five Friends are on their way to a week at Lake Tahoe; a war veteran is trying to get home to his daughter in New Mexico, an old couple idles in a dusty shop in the hills... as civilization coppapses, these scattered survivors cross paths with an intense survivalist named Huffington Niebolt who has spent twenty years preparing his strange family for the end of the world. As the hungry dead roam in search of living flesh, these survivors seek shelter within his walls but soon learn that the ones they should fear most are the living, and that the man they've come to for help may be the worst of them all... Those who die will walk. Those who live will hope for a quick death, and they will Pray to Stay Dead. Mason James Cole is the pseudonym of an apparently mild-mannered conservative type who doesn’t want his family and friends to know he writes stuff like this. His boring but lucrative job keeps him on the road five months out of the year, and that’s when he watches scary movies, reads scary books, and writes scary stories. He smiles and nods through church every Sunday and secretly votes Green. He lives in Farmington, Utah.