Twenty years ago I was managing a mall bookstore and a paperback copy of Brian Keene’s, The Rising showed up in the weekly order. Being a horror fan, I read it immediately and was blown away by the fact that the end of the world was going down in my back yard. I fired off an email to Brian thanking him for the apocalypse and he invited himself to do a book signing at my store.
The new addition to the Rising family is great. All of the horror, pathos and fun is still there. Thanks Brian!! I hope people buy this!

As always, Brian Keene is Goat.
Now that I've gotten that out of the way, this was fabulous as always.
The way I raced through this read was intense.
Stories from the end of the world and the horror that goes with it

Brian Keene returns to his world of The Rising with more short stories set in that universe of demonically controlled zombies. The stories are all very short quick reads. One or two mentioned characters from the other novels which I recognized, though I haven't read them all and it's been ages since I read what I have of them. The book is kinda depressing, as there's not a lot of hope found in most of the tales..

I’ve read some of Kenne’s stories from his zombie universe. And the thing I enjoyed most about these short tales from the end of the world was how surprisingly sweet each tale is. Just adoring moments from across a disaster, little brief snippets of life.