Download or read book Digital Zombies Undead Stories written by Lawrence May and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through analysis of three case study videogames – Left 4 Dead 2, DayZ and Minecraft – and their online player communities, Digital Zombies, Undead Stories develops a framework for understanding how collective gameplay generates experiences of narrative, as well as the narrative dimensions of players' creative activity on social media platforms. Narrative emergence is addressed as a powerful form of player experience in multiplayer games, one which makes individual games' boundaries and meanings fluid and negotiable by players. The phenomenon is also shown to be recursive in nature, shaping individual and collective understandings of videogame texts over time. Digital Zombies, Undead Stories focuses on games featuring zombies as central antagonists. The recurrent figure of the videogame zombie, which mediates between chaos and rule-driven predictability, serves as both metaphor and mascot for narrative emergence. This book argues that in the zombie genre, emergent experiences are at the heart of narrative experiences for players, and more broadly demonstrates the potential for the phenomenon to be understood as a fundamental part of everyday play experiences across genres.

Download or read book The Army of the Undead Alternate Reality written by Ronald Wintrick and published by Ronald Wintrick. This book was released on 2013-05-20 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Favel's lower half fell away, kicking and thrashing, rolling across the cobblestones, then somehow managed its feet. A black gush of blood poured out of Favel's upper half, which still clung to the soldier, still feasting on the soldier's face. The man still screamed. His knife still plunged into Favel impotently. The soldier who had chopped Favel in half stepped back in horrific incomprehension. The look on his face would have taken tomes to describe. Then he spewed his guts in an explosive convulsion that sprayed over the two struggling men, but neither seemed to notice. At the last moment the soldier's head turned in time to notice the approach of the pair of legs. He swung his sword and chopped down through the hips and separated the two legs, which fell away from one another but continued to struggle on. When he came upon the first combatants, the Necromancers were nowhere to be seen. There was heavy fighting but the men seemed to be slowly overwhelming the Ignacian, fighting in a Line Formation where they could more easily bring their swords and axes into service. The men were steadily falling back, but that was only so that they did not have to walk among the fallen body parts of the enemy, which continued to fight even when cleaved to individual pieces. A legless torso would clamber forward and attempt to climb a man, and would have to be chopped away. When one of their own fell, the men turned and chopped their own comrade to pieces, even if he was not completely dead. The merest scratch by one of the Ignacian was a death sentence that arrived only minutes later, and as gruesome as it might seem to chop apart your own comrades, it was a duty that had to be done. The men continued to fall back, but the Ignacian were taking a heavy toll. The now tireless team pulling the woman's wagon followed them like lost dogs, but the woman and her children leaped out onto the first unwary humans they encountered. It was an amusing game to watch the Ignacian tear into the helpless people. There were many variations of the game. Kill one among a family and watch as the others rush to see what is wrong. Kill the child in the mother's arms and watch laughing as it rips off the breast it was feeding on. They rode into the city, killing and killing as they went, the chain reaction now unstoppable. Moruv nodded uncertainly. Since when did the Warlord make inspections of his land? Since when did he go anywhere without an armed escort? A sizable one at that! Who was the tall stranger with him? Moruv had the strangest sensation while looking at him that his face had wavered and rippled! Ridiculous of course, but after yesterday's events, Moruv was looking at the world with an entirely new viewpoint, one in which previously impossible things had just become the possible. He was sure that nothing could now surprise him, but he was wrong. The Ignacian poured forward over the lip of the trench, the front rows just falling in as their uncoordinated movements tumbled them forward. Some tried to step in, or jump down, but they could not accomplish anything so complicated. They continued to march forward into the opening until they had filled the trench and then their comrades walked over their bodies, into the bristling pikes. When he reached their point of origin, the westernmost end of the Big Wood's Road, and found that the Ignacian element had not yet reached the fortifications which had been erected there, he floated over the unknowing Army and the Sisters arrayed there to defend their breastworks and watched the Ignacian finish closing the short distance to the waiting Army. Lives would certainly be lost this day but Lester needed to see what kind of a defense the flesh and blood soldiers would be able to pose against their undead adversaries. His timing had been nearly perfect and he did not have to wait long. Daghula and the rest of the Necromancers were all alike in that regard- they thought they were too good to bow and grovel before their true Master! Malton was not impeded by such arrogant shortcomings. He knew and understood Sheitan's superiority. When that eventual day came he would grovel happily, in blissful acceptance of his fate, at the Master's feet. The Master would be pleased with him. He would pet him and croon to him as Malton groveled. No. Malton did not fear that eventual day. Not in the least. She was on the field of battle. All around her raged unceasing combat, men and women, even children, battling the undead Ignacian, and every time one of the living fell, mortally wounded, he rose immediately as one of the enemy, to strike down those he had just stood with, his loved ones, his own family. Jana was fighting with her short sword and Casting Wizard's Fire but there was little room in the melee for the use of it without fear of hitting the living. For as far as she could see, in every direction, there was nothing but the heaving bodies of those engaged in mortal combat, then the old woman's eyes seemed to withdraw and Jana reeled away. Cloudless and as bright as any night could hope to be under the brilliance of the billions of stars above, Daghula cast an illusion which made him invisible then drew the great Black Sword which Sheitan himself had given him, buried within the heart of a great volcanic rock which even his spells had been unable to dislodge; he had chipped the rock away by hand to expose the hungry blade, this direct Channel to the Lower Plane and Sheitan himself. He drew it now and felt it quiver in his hand, as if it were a thing alive unto itself, but it was not, it merely conveyed the hunger of its Master. For those who it consumed there could be no salvation, their souls sent directly to the Lower Plane, no matter what life they lived while here. "It was the Wizard Timan! He attacked me in Specter Form!" Nimian snarled. Everything unknown in life became clear after death when the soul's unlimited ability to comprehend was released from its limiting physical bonds. It would also make the torments of Hell that much more acute. "It be." Old Woman said. She had been called Old Woman for so long that she had completely forgotten her given name. She had bounced Hirren, their hot tempered King, on her knees when he was but a babe as she had bounced Hirren's father before him, and his father before him, and even beyond that, though her memory no longer served her well enough to remember just exactly how long she had been alive. The days just continued to pass and she continued to move through them. She was Old Woman. "The Balance," Marea emphasized, "is contingent upon toil and struggle. The future depends on Right and Justice, but Righteousness must come to its own as must Discord and Rebellion. The day will come, eventually, when Discord and Rebellion must finally cease to exist, but that cessation must be brought about by the hand of man. This is our world, and if we wish to keep the Good which is within it, we will have to fight for it. Excerpts; -"You don’t think the war in Parce will reach us here, do you, mum?" Timan asked, not really knowing what he expected, but in no way expecting the reaction she did have. The smile fell from her lips, the joy left her eyes, and clouds of sorrow seemed to cross her countenance. .......... -"Those who came through here last week claimed to be fleeing an Army of the Undead. An Army of the Undead led by a Necromancer they called Daghula Ichorious." "Not led," Marea corrected, "but forced through Evil spells from their very graves to rise and do the Necromancer’s bidding. They do not follow willingly. No one rises from their grave willingly." "You speak of it as if you know of such things!" Timan said, causing his mother to blanch slightly, as if this were a subject she had not wanted raised. Not ever. "Your mother was not always a farmer’s wife and a mother. She was once a very well-known Sorceress of not inconsiderable Power!" Jarod said, a small smile now twisting his lips, and something else was there, as well. A certain deference Timan had never noticed before but now that he had noticed it, realized it had always been there. He had always thought highly of his parent’s relationship, which was of a much more equal nature than some of the other Prairie folk, and now he seemed to understand why and also to have a new respect for his father. It would take a special man to marry a woman who possessed Power enough to overpower him if they should ever come to arguing. Timan was old enough to understand how difficult that would be for most men, but not, apparently, his father. .......... Timan immediately felt the spell coursing through his veins, throbbing like an additional heartbeat, a heartbeat that thrummed in tune with spoken words that held no conscious meaning, beating at his temples, pounding at his temples, and then he was no longer in his own body. He seemed to leap out of it and into the air, faster than he could have ever moved in his physical body, where such rapid acceleration would have ripped him apart at the seams. As he hurtled away he had just enough time to look back over his shoulder (he still seemed to be in his physical form) and watch . . . himself . . . be left far behind. This might be what it would be like to die, except that he would not be able to return after his brief sojourn. "Absolutely." Kenry said, and before Timan knew what was happening he was snatched from his seat and thrown roughly to the ground. Kenry turned back to Marea as Timan scrambled to his feet. "You understand I will not coddle him. I will do him no favors if I coddle him." Marea began to speak quietly under her breath. Had she spoken aloud Jarod still wouldn’t have understood her. She was speaking the Old Tongue. The language of Power which, if the oral histories were correct, could not be translated into any other language, the ancient meanings of the words so long lost in time that their present counterparts could not be discerned. Marea believed, possibly, with several dozen lifetimes available in which to research and experiment, the task could be completed, but the only way to live much beyond the normal span was to trade away your soul to Sheitan, the evil god of the Lower Realm, and if you did that, Sheitan would have demands that precluded using your time for your own purposes. Such Wizards who gave themselves to Sheitan were called Necromancers and through their unholy union with the God of the Lower Realms were able to perform many spells normal Wizards were not, including the ability to raise the dead. "What have you done!" Jarod exclaimed, running down the steps to challenge the man, who flinched back before the now greenly glowing blade and Jarod’s fury. "I’ve done nothing! What mean you, man?" "It’s not him." Marea interjected, coming down to stand beside her husband. "It’s the residue on the blade." The stranger’s eyes snapped down to the blade hanging from his belt. A look that contained both horror and revulsion and a dawning realization of just what this might mean. "I didn’t know! I swear! I cleaned the blade!" He was now nearly hysterical. Children in both the wagons broke out crying and looks of horror spread across the faces of everyone else not crying but old enough or smart enough to understand what this could mean. "It means you have probably carried the spell of the Necromancer with you!" Marea said. "Hurry and remove your scabbard. It must be purified. Quickly now man!" She added as he stood there a moment longer, stupefied. The child was in its crib, where it had been before the attack and where it had been tossed back into after it made its transformation and was no longer palatable to whatever had been eating it. Its left arm had been ripped raggedly away from the shoulder, the right at the elbow, as if two somethings had been in a tug of war with it to obtain it. Its stomach and inner organs were missing, as well as a ragged chunk from its face. Yet it was on its feet and trying to climb the high walls of its crib as if those wounds were of no more than a passing inconvenience. They were, however, enough of an inconvenience that even with its Evil strength, it could not free itself. It smiled up at Timan angelically.

Download or read book Undead written by A.Rosaria and published by A.Rosaria. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A routine delivery becomes a night of terror. Before meeting up with his girlfriend, Linda, John Lone must deliver a package to a secluded cabin deep in the forest. No problem, he's made this trip a hundred times. But things have changed... Supernatural creatures now stalk the forest and beyond, seeking out innocent prey to devour. John must fight for his life. Does he have the skills--the time--to get back to his safe life and his girlfriend? Linda is his one chance for a happily ever after. But this is no fairy tale. * A apocalyptic horror survival story with undead, zombies, witches, werewolves, hunters, and many other supernatural creatures.

Download or read book Og Grim Dog and The War of The Dead written by Jamie Edmundson and published by Rarn Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-18 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fight the Dead, Fear the Ogre When a brutal war comes to Gal’azu, Og-Grim-Dog believe things can’t get any worse. They’re wrong. For the Dead now walk the land. As the world around them begins to disintegrate, Og-Grim-Dog face their greatest challenge yet. Can they survive the apocalypse?

Download or read book Undead Souths written by Eric Gary Anderson and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2015-10-19 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines physical, symbolic, psychological, and cultural forms of undeadness in a variety of media and historical periods.

Download or read book Winchester Undead written by Dave Lund and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The war with the undead has only just begun. The last remnants of civilization must fight to live another day. Under attack and on the run, America’s last heroes must battle for the future, as the legions of the dead wage their final war against the living. Quarry Injured, stranded, and alone, Cliff faces a fanatical religious order that is dominating—and destroying—a Colorado town. Thousands of miles away, Bexar Reed joins the ragtag former Special Forces team that rescued his family from the clutches of an outlaw motorcycle gang and left Jessie for dead. Rue Bexar Reed and his family are caught between the ravenous mobs of the undead and the vicious humans who want to rule the wreckage of civilization with fear and blood. Who will live, who will die—and who will rise again? This is an omnibus edition featuring Books Three and Four in the Winchester Undead series.

Download or read book Winchester Rue Winchester Undead Book 4 written by Dave Lund and published by Winlock Press. This book was released on 2016-02-18 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bexar and his family are caught between the ravenous mobs of the undead and the vicious humans who want to rule the wreckage of civilization with fear and blood. Who will live, who will die…and who will rise again?

Download or read book Winchester Storm Winchester Undead Book 5 written by Dave Lund and published by Winlock Press. This book was released on 2016-07-11 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The war with the undead has only begun. Now the last remnants of civilization must fight them—and the evil remnants of humanity itself—to live another day. Marooned, Bexar and Chivo are trapped in a war between prepper clans in a Utah town. Hundreds of miles away, Jessie, Sarah, and Erin fight to save a secret underground government facility—the only refuge they and hundreds of others have found—a facility on the verge of collapse. Crossing the American southwest, a group of Marines are the last survivors of their command. Will they reach the facility in time? Under attack and on the run, America’s last heroes fight for the future—as the legions of the dead wage their final war against the living. "If you shook this book, gunpowder and testosterone would fall out." —Chris Philbrook, Author of Adrian's Undead Diary Look for the other books in the Winchester Undead Series: Winchester: Over, Winchester: Prey, Winchester: Quarry and Winchester: Rue. Visit www.talesofadventures.net to learn more!

Download or read book Do Zombies Dream of Undead Sheep written by Timothy Verstynen and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at the true nature of the zombie brain Even if you've never seen a zombie movie or television show, you could identify an undead ghoul if you saw one. With their endless wandering, lumbering gait, insatiable hunger, antisocial behavior, and apparently memory-less existence, zombies are the walking nightmares of our deepest fears. What do these characteristic behaviors reveal about the inner workings of the zombie mind? Could we diagnose zombism as a neurological condition by studying their behavior? In Do Zombies Dream of Undead Sheep?, neuroscientists and zombie enthusiasts Timothy Verstynen and Bradley Voytek apply their neuro-know-how to dissect the puzzle of what has happened to the zombie brain to make the undead act differently than their human prey. Combining tongue-in-cheek analysis with modern neuroscientific principles, Verstynen and Voytek show how zombism can be understood in terms of current knowledge regarding how the brain works. In each chapter, the authors draw on zombie popular culture and identify a characteristic zombie behavior that can be explained using neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, and brain-behavior relationships. Through this exploration they shed light on fundamental neuroscientific questions such as: How does the brain function during sleeping and waking? What neural systems control movement? What is the nature of sensory perception? Walking an ingenious line between seriousness and satire, Do Zombies Dream of Undead Sheep? leverages the popularity of zombie culture in order to give readers a solid foundation in neuroscience.

Download or read book Winchester Triumph Winchester Undead Book 6 written by Dave Lund and published by Permuted Press. This book was released on 2019-02-27 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legions of dead swarm across the United States while North Korean and Chinese troops continue the hard-fought invasion. In this nail-biting, high-octane finale of the Winchester Undead series, Bexar and Jessie Reed try to find a safe haven for the birth of their child, while Chivo and President Lampton try to stop a rogue secret operative turned traitor from carrying out the final blow. The fate of the country and the fate of civilization rests in their hands.

Download or read book Undead written by Tyrel J. Bruyere and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-10-07 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Undead is part one of a three part series, called The Z-Files, following the lives of Tyr and Persephone before and during the years that the undead plagued humanity and spread across the earth. Theses two have lead very different lives and gain very different powers throughout the course of the story, and yet they are connected in the most sacred and carnal of ways. Tyr gains powers that transforms his body into something born from the very myths and legends that spawned the creation of the Undead. Persephone develops love for her knew family, for her lover and for herself, all of which were feelings that were foreign and strange to her before meeting them. Power and love seem like wonderful things, but these two heroes soon learn the weight that these offer in such a dark world, yet it is the love between them that remains the truest form of power.

Download or read book Faerie Brace Face written by Lotus Rose and published by Death Pout. This book was released on with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this romantic sci fi/fantasy tale, Darren is a human boy who's fallen in love with a fairy girl named Cabby. So when Cabby is forced to wear braces and flees their village as a result, Darren has no choice but to follow the girl he loves, because he never wants to be without her in his life. He finds himself sucked into surreal adventures he hadn't expected, but he endures it all for his beloved Cabby. This book is a treat for your inner child, a fantastical, unapologetically playful fairy story that is always utterly romantic. This book is the first in a trilogy, followed by Revenge of the Faebots, and The Return of Mackenzie. The second volume of the series, Revenge of the Faebots, is now available. The Faerie Brace-Face Trilogy Faerie Brace-Face Revenge of the Faebots The Return of Mackenzie

Download or read book The 3Rd Rise written by Frank E. Mabry and published by Author House. This book was released on 2012-10-19 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The demon Saul has broken the seal that had held his army trapped inside. The God of War has returned to lead the heroes of the past and the men of the future against the Army that threatens to sweep across the world. But before they can do anything else they must fight the dead.

Download or read book The Orange Box written by David S. J. Hodgson and published by Prima Lifestyles. This book was released on 2007 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: •Complete strategy forHalf-Life 2,Half-Life 2: Episode One,Half-Life 2: Episode Two,Portal, andTeam Fortress 2. •Half-Life 2: Enhanced biographies and enemy information showcasing all the new entities! •G-Man locations, hidden item stashes, and more revealed! •Portal: Tactics for every single level, with incredible, mind-bending shortcuts from the development team! •Team Fortress 2: Complete information for all characters and insanely advanced tactics for every map. •Comprehensive list of all Xbox 360 Achievements, with hints for completing them. •Fully labeled maps of every single level in all five games! •Raising the Bar: Exclusive artwork and developer interviews for all games!

Download or read book O M A Rise of the Undead written by Milton Kerr and published by Booktango. This book was released on 2013-09-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One Man Army Operatives are a last resort measure when all else fails. Undead zombies were plaguing the cities of the world. In America, the government sends Jason Cain, a trained One Man Army operative to deal with the zombie threat in the area around Plainville City. Jason encounters and neutralizes looters and drug dealers before he leads the successful assault that rids the area of the undead army which fled Philadelphia.

Download or read book Me And the Undead written by Frank Omar and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11-22 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love. Marriage. Divorce. Apocalypse. Its complicated. God had a terrible sense of humor. Henry Case Jr. hasnt had a typical life. After reconciling with his ex-wife, Luna Borsa, his world is turned on its head. An unknown disaster has decimated the worlds population. Henry is stuck in Rome, Italy, with his ex as one of the few survivors of the end times. Alone in a world of death, Case begins to lose his grip on reality. As his discontent grows, so does the mischievous voice in the back of his mind. When all hope seems lost, theres a light at the end of the tunnel in the form of Cristina Pacchetti, who shows up and complicates things even further. Food is scarce, traveling is dangerous, and surviving is becoming more and more meaningless when theres nothing left worth fighting for. Happiness through violence.

Download or read book Undead Menagerie written by A.M. Geever and published by A.M. Geever. This book was released on 2023-01-18 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the world ends, you adapt or die. Zookeeper Imogen is flying high. She loves her work caring for endangered Iberian Lynxes and a promotion is on the horizon. Then a colleague throws her under the bus and her entire life goes into free-fall. Mike dropped out of college to raise his sisters. Now, twenty years later, it’s time to live for himself. First step of his new life: marry his girlfriend. But an unwelcome surprise derails his proposal, and the future he’s longed for slips from his grasp. When the zombie apocalypse strikes, Imogen and Mike are trapped inside the zoo. If Imogen wants to protect her lynxes, she’ll have to adapt. If Mike wants to find his family, he needs to survive. Together, they must find a way out of the zoo—before it becomes as deadly as the ravenous hordes beyond its fence. Steel City Apocalypse is a sister series of The Undead Age zombie apocalypse adventure. If you like Jonathan Maberry (Rot & Ruin), Mira Grant (Feed, Parasite), and Mark Tufo (Zombie Fallout), you'll devour this gritty adventure. Grab your machete and join the Steel City Apocalypse today! "Undead Menagerie delivers the goods." - Goodreads review "Undead Menagerie... is so good. It feels like a punch in the gut on occasion—it's brutal, and it's a runaway train." - Floatingleaves.net "Undead Menagerie manages to invest in its original characters, avoid the regressive tropes, explore the human condition and SURPRISE THE READER." - Goodreads review "Had me on the edge of my seat sometimes wanting to scream..." - Goodreads review "I’ve already preordered the forthcoming sequel!" - Advance review "Undead Menagerie has been a great read that kept me glued to my seat the whole way from beginning to end. Once those zombies did make their appearance on the scene I was hooked and the action never let up. I can’t wait for the next book in the Steel City Apocalypse." - Bookbub review keywords: post apocalyptic novels, zombie apocalypse, post-apocalyptic, zombie horror, ya zombie, ya post apocalyptic, dystopian, ya dystopian, young adult, teen zombie books, zombie apocalypse, zombie books, post-apocalyptic fiction, post apocalyptic fiction, zombie apocalypse books, post apocalyptic book, post apocalyptic novels, post apocalyptic series, long books, disaster, disaster books, disaster fiction, survival, survival fiction, adventure, action, action fiction, adventure fiction, thriller, steel city, pittsburgh, zoo, zoo apocalypse, zoo disaster, zookeeper, zoo fiction, zombie books for adults, adult post apocalyptic, adult fiction, zombie books adult, adult zombie book