What Do You Do With Dead Zombies?
A frenzied vision of zombie Hell!
"I really didn't see this coming, and I reaLly enjoyed Mark's take on some of the more intricate and intimate facets of what day-to-day-life would be like after The Apocalypse. I look forward to more from this author."
- Chris Satterlee
"A riveting and humorous play-by-play of life following the zombie apocalypse! With his graphic and ingeniously detailed descriptions of the practical problems which face his intrepid survivors, Fernquest has broken new ground in the zombie genre and composed a masterwork bursting with loud yet refined humor. Readers will find the ending particularly poignant. The apocalypse has never been funnier!"
-SKIF
"Mark Fernquest's tightly constructed EOTW (end of the world) story (or is it???) is a feast for dark imaginations. This short story is one you will remember for a long time to come. The stench and sound of cracking skulls is graphic yet cartoon like. The Toxic Avenger is not a horror fan but was happily surprised by the twisted humor and surprise ending of this original work done in a heavily worked genera. The author of Zombie Wars would be impressed. Kudos to Mark Fernquest and let's hope for more stories from this blossoming writer."
-Toxic Avenger
Imagining Stalingrad: Battle Fragments
A dark & desperate spectral journey thru the rubble-choked streets of Fortress Stalingrad!
Zombie Pulp: The Best of ZombieTalk
Stories and vignettes pulled from the pages of ZombieTalk (2010 to 2011). Pulp zombedy to fill those off-minutes on the can, between meetings, after FOX news hour and when you're stuck in that long-ass line at Starbusters.
Two Pieces of Esoteric Knowledge
The Web of Darkness and the Way I Am &
The Life of the Universe
The Web of Darkness and the Way I Am was written in 1998 after spending three days alone in Joshua Tree National Park. Twenty years later, it remains the energetic equation of my life. The Life of the Universe came to me in late 2017 as a distillation of mystical vision and thought.
PIG: Collected Shrapnel
Assorted vignettes concerning PIG, a Dread Star soldier fighting in the ruins of a nameless future war. Caught between Control and the Enemy, he can only hope to survive!
SuperCommando 2057 Part I
The Ghost Highway
In the brave year 2057, a PIG rides a hog through the wasted SouthWest, encountering all manner of post-apocalyptic ruin. As he navigates the chaotic deathscape that was once America, he encounters brigands, foreign soldiers, Mad Max-style highwaymen and CONTROL. A birds-eye narrative of non-stop, end-of-the-world carnage. A Trigger-Finger Travelogue. Cover photo by Benny Gonzalez!
SuperCommando 2057 Part II
THe Wild Coast
Having reached the Wild Coast, PIG pilots his hog north, to greener climes. But the coastal highway is fraught with Russian bandits and other horrors, and he must fight his way from fortified outpost to fortified outpost. Will CONTROL help him reach Santa Cruz? More bloody carnage than you can shake a flaming molotov cocktail at. A Trigger-Finger Travelogue. Cover photo by Benny Gonzalez!
SuperCommando 2057 Part III
THe Ridge Run
Having arrived in New Santa Cruz, PIG takes to the hills in a jet-powered patrol car. It's fight-or-flight every moment of the way as he cruises the last outposts of West Coast civilization in search of Russkie insurgents. A Trigger-Finger Travelogue. Cover photo from World War II!
Kaspari's Ghost
Collected Poems
My best poems, collected from two distinctly dynamic periods of my life -- the writing classes I took at UCSC in the early 1990s, and San Francisco in the late 1990s, when Diane di Prima was my writing mentor. These poems span many moods, subjects and forms, and together they represent the raw ghosts of my youth. John - I hope you rest well.
Twisted Tales • Volume 1
Stories to be read before bed
So you like Tim Burton movies? And you think Edward Gorey books rock? Then shut up cuz you’re going to laugh in pure delight with Jan and Joe Bruzzese’s most original new book, Twisted Tales • Volume 1. The kicker? It comes complete with its own soundtrack! Shut up, I’m serious!
