FREE Nekropolis short story

I’m a big fan of the short story – anyone who knows me will tell you that. Well, they’ll tell you if you ask them – it’s not the sort of thing that would necessarily be voluntarily offered. Have you seen Lee? He likes short stories, you know. Won’t happen.

But I digress…

The sequel to Tim Waggoner’s wonderful Nekropolis is published in the UK and Australia from next week. Dead Streets gives you everything you loved about the first book, and more! And as a special treat for all you lovely people living out there in internet-land, we have a free short story set in Nekropolis. If you’ve not read the first book yet, all you need to know to get started is that Matt Richter (our hero) is a zombie and former cop, and his paramour, Devona, is half-vampire.

I flicked the flashlight’s switch and played its beam around to get my bearings. It was just as Devona had said: a foyer with stone walls and ceiling and a marble tiled floor. Nice enough, in a cold, Spartan way, but nothing to e-mail home about. There were sconces on the walls where greenfire torches had undoubtedly once burned to light the place, but the mystic flames had died away decades ago, and without an Arcane torchlighter to rekindle them, it looked like we were stuck with my flashlight.

As we started slowly down the foyer, I said, “So, are you going to tell me why this place is supposed to be haunted?”

Now head on over to Next Read to enjoy the full story.