Shawn Weaver

The undead have risen and the city of Chicago is their hunting grounds. Within the pages of UNDEAD OMNIBUS you will follow the path of Chicago's final days with stories of raging horror.Chicago Undead: On the eleventh floor, the first in the groundbreaking story of one man's journey as he wakes up to a city gone mad.Chicago Undead 2: Deep Freeze, follow the events as a lone survivor in the Chicago's suburbs tries to survive the first winter after the end of the world.Chicago Undead 3: A Bad Way To Start Your DAY, take a step into the mind of John Khan as he wakes up on the slab in the Briggs and Sons Funeral Home. Though his heart is no longer beating. His mind is still alive.Chicago Undead 4: Field Trip, a school field trip goes awry at the Briggs and Sons Funeral Home. Can the students make it out alive or are they trapped in the place where the dead go for their final preparations.All of this is followed by Chicago Undead Encounters, A combination of Chicago Undead 3 and 4. Making a surprising plot twist on what happens when the dead and living meet. Neither wanting to perish. Though the hunger grows in the hallways and the living are to afraid to face what comes next.

Ryder Gifford is turning 17 and entering her junior year at Faver High. Little does she know that her world is going to be flipped upside down when a body is discovered in her backyard in the town of LITTLE VALLEY. She then finds herself thrust into the position of editor of the high school paper after the prior editor goes missing. Then the school's vice principal is found dead. His heart ripped from his body in an grisly attack.Tormented by nightmares, Ryder searches for answers only to find that they are too close to home. A killer is hiding in the halls and classrooms of Faver High. And its up to Ryder to uncover the truth before another soul is taken.LITTLE VALLEY is a small Wisconsin town twisted by mystery. Where evil hangs in the air, and spirits lurk within the very fabric of time itself.

Two classic Creature Tales from one of Americas 'Top 100 All Time Greatest Horror Authors' www.Ranker.comWolves in Springfield: After the Union's devastating loss at Chancellorsville, the few surviving men of the 23 Illinois Regiments find themselves separated from the bulk of the Union army and behind Confederate lines. Alone and tired, this ragged band desperately tries to make it back into friendly territory. With danger at every crossroad, they find themselves hunkered down at an old farmhouse unaware that the prior tenants had not yet moved on. One-by-one, the men of the 23 Regiment are cut down by beasts only spoken of in campfire stories.Within hours, the remainder of the regiment is decimated, and only Johnathan Burrows barely survives, bitten by a monster, part wolf, part man. He is rescued by Union soldiers and finds himself discharged and sent back home to Springfield Illinois.He is welcomed home by his community with open arms. But the full moon is soon upon him, and Johnathan is thrust into a change that heals his broken body and creates a werewolf that terrorizes the growing community.As the weeks pass, Johnathan must come to terms with being a monster of legend, and yet still hold onto his family life. His task is made more difficult by Mark Roberts, a man spoiled by wealth, and jealous of the war hero.The battles Johnathan fought with the Union army could not prepare him for the battles coming in the nights ahead. The full moon brings with it another werewolf created by his own hands. The realizations then come clear, that he cannot let that beast, or any other, even his own dark form, threaten the land and the ones who he loves.Widows Hill: The circus is coming to Widows Hill. Bringing excitement to a rural Wisconsin town, and the possibility of romance for Paul Phillips and the girl of his dreams, Ja-an Mitchell. But something else is coming. Meteors crash just outside of town. Destroying Mr. Harpers chicken farm, and rapidly mutating spiders across the city. Leaving the unsuspecting citizens of Widows Hill scrambling to survive.

The war of Ishtabar is over, and the evil that had tried to take over the kingdom has fallen. Needing time to heal, Jason Tolbridge and his party of weary adventurer's head back to the Valley of Snell before winter covers the land making it impossible to travel. As the spring comes, so does the thaw, and with that the appearance of massive golems threatening to livelihoods of the halfling community living within the valley. Taking it upon themselves Jason, May, and Tyree head out to find what is controlling the stone behemoths. While the rest of the party works to protect the valley. All the while, lurking in the mountains, growing her fledgling army. The red dragon, Brightwing, is watching. Readying herself for the day she can attack, and fulfill her goal of killing Jason and anyone who stands in her way of riding the world of mankind.

For the first time in paperback, Shawn Weaver gives you six tales of horror. MISSISSIPPI DEAD: Follow Jack Piccoulty as a family weekend fishing trip turns deadly along the shores of the Mississippi River. IN THE GROUND: Sit on the back porch of a home in Little Valley, Wisconsin, and hear the tale of why there are so many women buried beneath a garden. CHICAGO UNDEAD 2: DEEP FREEZE: A young girl tries to survive the first winter after the undead rise. SALEM: Hear the lovelorn dream of a lonely man during the winter of 1693, and the death of his wife in the Salem witch trials. BEFORE SUNRISE: Follow a pair of thieves breaking into the home of an unsuspecting woman. Only to discover that they are the victims that they had hoped she would be. CHICAGO UNDEAD 3: A BAD WAY TO START YOUR DAY: Take a step into the mind of John Kahn as he wakes on a table in the Briggs and Sons Funeral Home. And realizes that he is now one of the undead.

The dead have begun to rise in the streets of Chicago. Unbeknownst, a school trip to the Briggs and Sons Funeral Home find themselves in caught with the dead inside, and outside, of the building. Quickly they come to realize that their only options are to hold up and wait for help, or try to escape to the local police station. Time is running out, and there is no telling if they will survive the morning. All the while a lone John Doe wakes on the other side of life. And finds himself struggling with what has happened and the need to feed. The novel, Chicago Undead Encounters, is a working combination of the short story, Chicago Undead 3: A Bad Way To Start Your Day, and the novella, Chicago Undead 4: Field Trip.

A routine high school field trip to the Briggs and Sons Funeral Home goes awry when the dead cease to adhere to the rules of the living. Is it safer to stay where the dead go for their final preparation, or to run into the streets to a quickly changing world that none can recover from. The short story, Chicago Undead 3: A Bad Way To Start Your Day. In combination with the novella, Chicago Undead 4: Field Trip. Create the novel, Chicago Undead Encounters. Read alone, or combined, to take a glimpse inside the last days of Chicago.

Two Classic Tales of Hauntings from one of Americas 'Top 100 All Time Greatest Horror Authors' www.Ranker.com Little Valley: Bringing his family home to Little Valley, Wisconsin, Allen Young thought that this move was the chance for a new beginning, a new job, a new town, a breath of fresh air. Little did he know that the very home he had lived in as a child held more than the memories of his father and grandfather. It held their very souls.Built by loving hands a replica of Little Valley sat in a room on the second floor of Allen's new home. With loving care every tree, every building, every street was placed on the model. And, day by day, whatever happened in town showed itself in miniature detail before Allen's eyes.Then one by one his children vanish within the house. Their soul's caught in the battle between the living and the dead, a battle of those wanting to be brought home to an eternal rest, and a soul wanting them to stay locked in an eternal embrace.Welcome to Plainfield: Every twenty-five years women go missing in Plainfield, Wisconsin. A city haunted by the legend of the deranged murderer Ed Gein. On the fiftieth anniversary of the destruction of homestead where Gein did his despicable deeds, paranormal investigators Kay Stanley and Anita Harper set out on a day time investigation just to see what evidence they could collect. That is, if any souls still haunted the graveyards and places that Ed Gein did his dirty work.Little do they know that the shocking photographic evidence that they accumulated would lead them on a trail of fear and a realization that the torture and torment of those poor souls who had disappeared and suffered horrendous death were bound to repeat it time and time again. Horrified at their findings Kay soon realizes that her dreams up to, and following the investigation, are becoming come all too real. Using the last surviving relic of that terrifying house, the Gein family bible, Kay and Anita attempt an EVP session that brings forth more evidence and specter of Ed Gein.Trapped in a cycle of reincarnation, Kay is pulled back to the last hours of Ed Gein's first victim. Leaving Anita to try and find a way to bring Kay back and save her before it is too late, and she suffers the save horrifying death of a young girl fifty years before.Can Anita find a way to pull Kay from the darkness of the haunted Gein homestead? Can she rescue the poor souls enveloped in a cycle of reincarnation only to be violated, then killed again and again by the hands of Ed Gein, and the one who drove him to do it. Time is running out for Anita Harper as she must find the truth before the cycle starts again.