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Hey, Chicago horror fans … get a load of The Dead Walk Fest on March 28th and 29th at Schurz High School. I’ll be signing copies of my novel, LOSING TOUCH, the Bram Stoker Award®-nominated anthology QUALIA NOUS, and SHRIEKS & SHIVERS, featuring my short story, “Center Stage Sideshow”, which touches on the undead motif of the event.

Burial Day Books, publishers of the Gothic Blue Book series, will also have a presence, and will be selling copies of GOTHIC BLUE BOOK IV: THE FOLKLORE EDITION, featuring a story by THE WALKING DEAD novelist Jay Bonansinga.

In addition to the vendor’s room, you’ll be able to enjoy all the films, the zombie walk inside the building, the zombie costume contest, and the makeup effects workshop presented by Joe Mistretta. Saturday and Sunday passes are $7.00, weekend passes are $12.00, and the workshop is just $20.00. The zombie walk and costume contest on Sunday are included in the price of admission.

Here is the schedule of films for each day:

Saturday

• “The Vicious Dead” (Mike Jarman)
• “The Untitled Dead” (Eugenie Muggleton)
• “Warehouse One” (Joshua Landa)
• “Day Zero: Sacrificial Lamb” (Cal Nguyen)
• “Zugar Zombie” (Alexander Quezada)
• “Carolina Parakeet” (A.J. Briones)
• “Fodder” (David Dollard)
• “O Come All Ye Zombies” (Greg Kovacs)
• “Infected” (Jason Wright)
• “The Dead Harvest” (Randy Lee Beasley)
• CHIP & BERNIE’S ZOMANCE (Pasquale Murena)
• “Reviled: Revival” (Jim Stramel)
• “Zero” (Chris & Robert Smellin)
• DEAD WEIGHT (Adam Bartlett & John Pata)

Sunday

• “Holidazed” (Bryce Morgan)
• “The Fog of Courage” (John Dilworth)
• “Avarice” (Evan Draper)
• “The Rousing” (Steven Canfield Crowley)
• “April” (Mike Piccirillo)
• “Row Z” (Dusty Rhodes)
• “Dark Planet” (Marcus Quaratella)
• “17 Minutes in Texas” (Trey Huguley)
• “Undead Survival” (Michael Fitzer)
• “Succumb” (Joseph Hernandez)
• “Pestilence” (Bruno Santana)
• “Z.14.12” (A.J. Caruso)
• “Ravage” (Nick Meunier)
• “Zombie Bomb” (Willy Adkins)
• “Say What!?” (Shane Nasmith)
• “Buddy System” (Paul DeNigris)
• “Starving” (Mike DeCaro)
• CHRYSALIS (John Klein)

Click here for tickets to The Dead Walk Fest, presented by Breaking Fate Entertainment, and I’ll see you March 28th and 29th at Schurz High School, 3601 N. Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago.

Christian A. Larsen is the author of LOSING TOUCH, featuring a foreword by New York Times bestselling author Piers Anthony, now available in paperback and ebook formats from Post Mortem Press.

QUALIA NOUS, nominated for a 2014 Stoker Award®.

QUALIA NOUS, the sci-fi/horror anthology edited by Michael Bailey and featuring my short story, “Cataldo’s Copy”, has been nominated for the Bram Stoker Award® for superior achievement in an anthology.

My story is just one of many, including “The Jaunt” by Stephen King, which leads off the table of contents.

In addition to the antho nod, two stories in QUALIA NOUS have been singled out for superior achievement in short fiction: “The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family” by Usman Tanveer Malik and “Ruminations” by Rena Mason.

Here is the entire table of contents:

• “The Jaunt” by Stephen King
• “The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family” by Usman Tanveer Malik
• “The Shaking Man” by Gene O’Neill
• “Dyscrasia” by Ashlee Scheuerman
• “The Rondelium Girl of Rue Marseille” by Emily Cataneo
• “The Angel Chaser” by Erik T. Johnson
• “Psychic Shock” by Ian Shoebridge
• “Peppermint Tea in Electronic Limbo” by D.J. Cockburn
• “Second Chance” by John R. Little
• “The Effigies of Tamber Square” by Jon Michael Kelley
• “Shades of Naught” by Lori Michelle
• “The Price of Faces” by James Chambers
• “Simulacrum” by Jason V. Brock
• “Shutdown” & “Tomorrow’s Femme” (poetry) by Marge Simon
• “Lead Me to Multiplicity” by Peter Hagelslag
• “Cataldo’s Copy” by Christian A. Larsen
• “The Neighborhood Has a Barbecue” by Max Booth III
• “The Jenny Store” by Richard Thomas
• “Night Guard” by Erinn L. Kemper
• “A New Man” by William F. Nolan
• “Voyeur” by John Everson
• “Kilroy Wasn’t There” by Pat R. Steiner
• “In the Nothing-Space, I Am What You Made Me” by Paul Anderson
• “Dura Matter” by Lucy A. Snyder
• “Ruminations” by Rena Mason
• “Good and Faithful Servant” by Thomas F. Monteleone
• “Twelve Kilos” by Patrick Freivald
• “Breathe You In Me” by Mason Ian Bundschuh
• “18P37-C, After Andrea Was Arrested” by Elizabeth Massie
• “No Fixed Address” by Gary A. Braunbeck

The Bram Stoker Award® winners will be announced May 9th at the World Horror Convention in Atlanta.

Christian A. Larsen is the author of LOSING TOUCH, featuring a foreword by New York Times bestselling author Piers Anthony, now available in paperback and ebook formats from Post Mortem Press.

Featuring the work of David Benton and W.D. Gagliani.

Barnes & Noble in Racine is hosting its sixth Spring Author’s Day on April 4th, and I’ll be among the panelists during the horror and genre fiction authors’ discussion from 12:00 noon to 1:00 p.m.

Childrens’ authors will open the event from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon, including Karen Franco (JACOB’S HOOP), Linda Hocutt (WHERE’S CHARLIE?), Norma Lundstrom (ALL FAMILIES ARE SPECIAL), Rachel McNamara (MISTER E. CATERPILLAR), and Jennifer Nitz (RUBIX RUCKUS REUBENSTEIN TAKES HIMSELF ON A HIKE).

The horror and genre fiction authors’ discussion is next, featuring Dave Benton (X FILES: TRUST NO ONE), Bridget Birdsall (DOUBLE EXPOSURE), JoBe Cerny (TAYLOR STREET FILE OF RED CIN), W.D. Gagliani (WOLF’S TRAP), Bernice Willims (CHILD OF THE HEART), G.J. Wise (SPIRITWOOD), and me (LOSING TOUCH).

LOSING TOUCH, on the shelf at the Racine Barnes & Noble.

From 1:00 to 2:00 p.m., local interest and history authors take the stage, including Laurel Bragstad (IN THE COMFORT OF SHADOWS), Marcie Eanes (SENSUAL SOUNDS), George Fennell (RACINE, WISCONSIN), Carol Schaufel (BY THE GRACE OF GOD AND YOU), and Barbara & Ken Wardius (WISCONSIN LIGHTHOUSES).

Theology becomes the focus from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. with authors Anita Meyer (THE PRIMORDIAL LANGUAGE), Alice Stacionis (THE JOURNEY TO NOW AND BEYOND), and Darlene, Junia, Rodney, Sheryl & Titus Waldner (HUTTERITES: OUR STORY OF FREEDOM) taking the stage.

From 3:00 to 4:00 p.m., mingle and chat with the authors during the open house, and maybe pick up a signed copy of a book or two that piques your interest. Barnes & Noble in Racine brings writers and readers together on Saturday, April 4th, so if you’re a reader, you don’t want to miss this!

Christian A. Larsen is the author of LOSING TOUCH, featuring a foreword by New York Times bestselling author Piers Anthony, now available in paperback and ebook formats from Post Mortem Press.