I had hesitated to promote this book at Mobilereads because it was only available for the Kindle, and I know not everyone here is on that platform.
But it's now available for the Nook as well! So I wanted to let you folks know about it.
[Sorry, no Smashwords yet. The book contains footnotes / internal links, and the Smashwords upload "meatgrinder" continues to reject it. So I don't have a Sony or Kobo option at this time - but I'm still working on finding one.]
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A recovered Latin text tells the story of a struggle between Roman legionaries and the undead in 185 AD.
Lucius Artorius Castus leads an expedition to Gaul to defeat a rebellion against the rule of the Emperor Commodus - and gets more than he bargained for when his enemies rise from the dead to fight again. The power of the zombie horde is amplified by the Babel of Ancient Rome's religions and superstitions, and the terror the undead bring in their wake foreshadows the incipient medieval darkness already creeping into the world at the end of Rome's Antonine age. Richly annotated, this mashup of survival horror and alternate history takes the reader on a bracing journey into one of ancient Rome's dark corners.
The book is structured as a work of nonfiction, with a foreword describing the history of the Latin document and its solecistic title, a "translation" of the text itself, and extensive footnotes. It is a loving homage to the paperback nonfiction products of university presses - a classics text reimagined as a postmodern horror tale.
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Special Kindle Edition Bonus: The Kindle version of this title contains an 80 page free preview of Thomas Brookside's new release THE LAST DAYS OF JERICHO.
It's now $2.99 at
Barnes and Noble and in the
Amazon Kindle Store.
Thanks!