Kings of the Castle: A Stay Dead short story

By Steve Wands

Keith, Connor, and Kayla must band together to survive a world overrun by monsters. The only adults they see are the dead ones outside trying to eat them, until one day a stranger comes looking for a safe haven. The kids let him in, but will they be able to get out? And if so, will be as one of the living, or the living dead?

Short Story, approximate word count: 14,500
Also comes with a sampling of Horror Stories: A Macabre Collection

• Language: English
• Publisher: Steve Wands
• Release date: Mar 15, 2011
• ISBN: 9781458073754

Steve Wands

STEVE WANDS is a comic book letterer working on top titles at DC Comics, Image, Vertigo, BOOM! Studios, Random House, and Kodansha Comics (to name a few). He also designs, inks, and illustrates for those, and other, companies. He’s the author of the Stay Dead series, and is a writer of short stories. When not working he spends time with his wife and sons in New Jersey. Oh, and he drinks a lot of coffee.Steve has just wrapped illustrating The Fallen for Cemetery Dance Publications, which is written by Bram Stoker Award winning writer Brian Keene, based on a story by Richard Chizmar and Jonathan Schaech, colored by Gabriel Cassata.His work appears in titles like the mega-hit manga Attack on Titan, All Star Batman, Batman, Cognetic, Black Road, Descender, Frostbite, The Flash, Trinity, The Spire, Gotham Academy, FBP, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Supergirl, Action Comics, Garfield, Adventure Time, Regular Show, Next Testament, Peanuts, Six-Gun Gorilla, and many others.

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