COMING MARCH 2008

I've been a fan of Darren McGavin's hardbitten, wiseass reporter "Carl Kolchak," since I was a kid, staying up to catch reruns of Kolchak the Night Stalker on the CBS Late Movie. I also believe that the two Kolchak television movies written by Richard Matheson are genuine horror classics.

When Moonstone started to publish new adventures of the hard luck ghost hunter, I was thrilled, and bought several of their books – never guessing that someday I would be invited to add to the Kolchak canon. Nonetheless, when the call came, I rose to the challenge.

I was asked to come up with a Kolchak "event," and the title "Night Stalker... of The Living Dead" popped into my head, along with the perhaps obvious notion of dropping the intrepid newshawk into a small midwestern town overrun with George Romero-styled undead. They liked it, so then I had to write it. That was the hard part.

The amazing Tim Hamilton (The Trouble With Girls) was assigned to illustrate the 3-issue, full-color miniseries, and master zombie artist David Akens has provided the appropriately ghoulish cover paintings. The marvelous art by Tim Hamilton is best described as "gorgeously grotesque."

Release dates: March, May & July 2008.

For more information, visit Moonstone's website.