The Dead Bear Witness - Chambers, James
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A chronicle of survival in a world of the living dead. There is no Heaven or Hell; there is only blood and the dust of flesh. The Dead Bear Witness Sentenced to life after a bank robbery gone bad, Cornell thought his worst nightmare had come true-and that he deserved it. After a stint in solitary, though, he learned his nightmare had only started: While Cornell rotted in isolation, all around the world the dead had returned to life. Inside the prison walls, Cornell should've been well protected. He didn't reckon on the stone-cold killer who demanded his help breaking out, nor the fanatic…mehr

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A chronicle of survival in a world of the living dead. There is no Heaven or Hell; there is only blood and the dust of flesh. The Dead Bear Witness Sentenced to life after a bank robbery gone bad, Cornell thought his worst nightmare had come true-and that he deserved it. After a stint in solitary, though, he learned his nightmare had only started: While Cornell rotted in isolation, all around the world the dead had returned to life. Inside the prison walls, Cornell should've been well protected. He didn't reckon on the stone-cold killer who demanded his help breaking out, nor the fanatic warden who forced him to help "save the souls" of other prisoners. He didn't count on being snared in a web of lies, violence, and betrayal. He didn't expect his survival to depend on fighting his way back to freedom before the eyes of the watchful dead. Now as nooses sway over the prison yard, Cornell can almost feel one tightening around his neck, and freedom seems so far away….
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James Chambers is an award-winning author of horror, crime, fantasy, science fiction, and other genres. He wrote the Bram Stoker Award®-winning graphic novel, Kolchak the Night Stalker: The Forgotten Lore of Edgar Allan Poe and was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for his story, "A Song Left Behind in the Aztakea Hills." Booklist described his collection On the Night Border as "...a haunting exploration of the space where the real world and nightmares collide," and, in a starred review, said of his collection On the Hierophant Road: "For fans of the new breed of dark-speculative-fiction writers who actively play with genre confines to create reads that are inventive, thought-provoking, and creepily fun." Publisher's Weekly gave his collection of four Lovecraftian-inspired novellas, The Engines of Sacrifice, a starred review and described it as "...chillingly evocative..." He is also the author of the short story collection Resurrection House, the Corpse Fauna novellas, including The Dead Bear Witness, Tears of Blood, and The Dead in Their Masses, as well as the dark urban fantasy, Three Chords of Chaos, and Kolchak and the Night Stalkers: The Faceless God. His short stories have been published in numerous anthologies, including After Punk: Steampowered Tales of the Afterlife, The Best of Bad-Ass Faeries, The Best of Defending the Future, Chiral Mad 2, Chiral Mad 4, Gaslight and Grimm, The Green Hornet Chronicles, Kolchak the Night Stalker: Passages of the Macabre, Qualia Nous, Shadows Over Main Street (1 and 2), The Spider: Extreme Prejudice, Truth or Dare, TV Gods, Walrus Tales, Weird Trails, and the magazines Bare Bone, Cthulhu Sex, and Allen K's Inhuman. He edited the Bram Stoker Award-nominated anthology Under Twin Suns: Alternate Histories of the Yellow Sign and co-edited A New York State of Fright: Horror Stories from the Empire State, also a Bram Stoker Award finalist.He has also written and edited numerous comic books including Leonard Nimoy's Primortals, the critically acclaimed "The Revenant" in Shadow House, and The Midnight Hour with Jason Whitley. He lives in New York.Visit his website: www.jameschambersonline.com.