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It's not often I've had a review for a single story, especially one as nice as this.
Out of Corruption is one of my longer short stories and was originally published in Steve Jones'
Mammoth Book of Zombies, an anthology that has seen a number of reprints, with some title variations, both in the UK and overseas, including Russia. It is also included in my short story collection from Shadow Publishing,
The Lurkers in the Abyss and Other Tales of Terror.
A link to the
review:
"1993 - Spoiler alerts.
An action packed haunted house horror yarn set in the kind of house you would never want to enter let alone live in.
The narrator visits an old friend who is going mad for living in the
crumbling Gothic pile, due to strange noises in the night, something
shuffling round in the cellar, and mysterious figures roaming the
grounds at night.
The narrator sees some of this for himself, and learns that the zombies
outside cannot enter the property due to its crooked windows and
door-frames (designed to ward off evil). Though the things outside after
dark can't get in, leaving the house after dark would be fatal.
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The narrator gains information from a local librarian and occult
specialist, as the man who owns the house is attacked and possessed by
the figure trapped in the cellar to try to get the creatures outside to
enter.
The zombies start breaking windows trying to frighten the mortal
inhabitants into leaving the house too, so the humans are trapped by a
malevolent entity within and a horde of the living dead outside - even
if they make it to dawn and escape to new homes, their troubles may not
be over.
Relentlessly paced Evil Dead style story, which a saturation of evil atmosphere throughout.
Arthur Chappel"
