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- An excerpt from the Roses of Blood intro, by Z.A. Recht, author of Plague of the Dead
"Reader, you haven't experienced zombies like the ones in this book before. I won't ruin a thing for you, but you're in for a treat. George A. Romero's zombies are cute, cuddly little kittens next to these aberrations. And the vampires? They aren't those cultured, lace-wearing wussies that Anne Rice made famous. These are dark, vicious killers--predators in the truest sense of the word. Take either one of these things and you would have the material you need for a grade-A work of horror fiction. Put them together, and the potential increases exponentially. Snell has exploited every last bit of this potential."
- "[A] marvelous dark fantasy—filled with ruthless vampires, flesh-eating zombies, and enough action to leave you breathless. Intense, gruesome, funny, and fast-paced—it has all the ingredients needed to satisfy even the most jaded fan of horror fiction."—Jonathan Maberry, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Ghost Road Blues
- "D.L. Snell is a wonderful writer. His prose is sharp, and his pacing is superbly balanced. His characters, though numerous, are well drawn, and his dialogue sizzles.... There are some especially elaborate [descriptive] passages that didn't work for me, but in the main the book is a rock solid tour de force of exceptionally well-crafted writing. Snell's characters are, after all, larger than life, and their world demands a more stylized language.... You're in capable hands with Snell. He's written a great story."—Joe McKinney, Author of Dead City
- "Crackles and moves like chain lightning, violent and horrifying. Not just in your face, but down your throat and in your head.The dead just don't walk, they slither and crawl and feast as the fate of humanity hangs by a single gored thread in this wild, surreal orgy of sex, blood, and death."—Tim Curran, Author of Dead Sea
- "Violent and visceral and yet unexpectedly beautiful and erotic, Snell's debut novel is a startling vision of the remains of the human race trapped between two of the greatest evils ever to scar the face of the planet. With hordes of deadly zombies on one side and an incredibly powerful army of vampires on the other, mankind's days are numbered."—David Moody, Author of the Autumn series
- "Non-stop action from first page to last. Vampires with automatic weapons! Mutant zombies with tentacles! This blending of dark fantasy and hardcore horror spills enough blood to drown the world."—Garrett Peck, co-author of Grave Cravings
- "Welcome to D. L. Snell's bleak, nightmarish world of vampires and zombies, of puppets and puppeteers, of humans and mutants. A bone-jarring, hellish trek into the morbid and bizarre, Snell's trenchant novel serves up oceans of gore and an unimaginable body count, and yet beneath the ghastly layers, there's plenty of character development, sharp dialogue and a perceptive view of human—and inhuman—nature. An often brutal—often darkly elegant—page-turning read."—Walt Hicks, Hellbound Books
- "An epic battle of the undead, as warring factions of zombies and vampires engage in a bloodthirsty battle over human livestock. Snell's nightmarish tale is dark and powerful, an original fantasy tale of terror that preys on our most primal of instincts."
—Geoff Bough, Revenant Magazine
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