Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Zombie Jim Now Available!

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Zombie Jim by Mark Twain and W. Bill Czolgosz is now available at the following on-line retailers:

Paperback:

Amazon.com
Amazon.ca
Amazon.co.uk
Barnes and Noble
Other On-line Retailers

eBook:
Amazon Kindle
Fictionwise.com


Synopsis:

Free at last! Free at last!

This ain’t your grandfather’s [i]Huckleberry Finn[/i].

It’s nineteenth century America and a mutant strain of tuberculosis is bringing its victims back from the dead.

Sometimes they come back docile, and other times vicious. The vicious ones are sent back to Hell, but the docile ones are put to work as servants and laborers.

With so many zombies on the market, the slave trade is nonexistent. The black man is at liberty, and human bondage is no more. Young Huckleberry Finn has grown up in a world that shuns the N-word, with its scornful eye set on a new class of shambling, putrid sub-humans: The Baggers.

When his abusive father comes back into his life, Huck flees down the river with Bagger Jim, seeking a life of perfect freedom.

When the pox mutates once again, causing even the tamest of baggers to become bloodthirsty monsters, the boy Finn is forced to question his relationship with his dearest, deadest friend.

In this revised take on history and classic literature, the modern age is ending before it ever begins. Huckleberry Finn will inherit a world of horror and death, and he knows the mighty Mississippi might be the only way out . . .

Don of the Dead by Nick Cato Now Available!

Don of the Dead by Nick Cato is now available at the following on-line retailers:

Paperback:

Amazon.com
Amazon.ca
Amazon.co.uk
Barnes and Noble
Other On-line Retailers

eBook:

Amazon Kindle


The story:

Two mob families go to war after one family’s main hitman switches sides--and to show his newfound loyalty, he has to whack his former boss, who also happens to be the current Don. The Don is buried alive on a mob-controlled construction site that was once the location of a church that had banned the same Don’s ancestors, causing them to invent their own religion.

The Barrlucio and Piranzza families battle for control of the underworld before their main henchmen find out a Don has been offed without permission. Major problems arise when a group of mysterious Sicilians arrive from Italy and manage to retrieve the Don’s corpse.

Well, his living corpse.

Before long, the Don’s undead state leads to the outbreak of reanimated dead, including a showdown at the Staten Island Mall and NYC’s Central Park. Add to the mix a corrupt military general that is bent on using the outbreak to bring down the mob and the entire city and an even more corrupt Catholic priest who is responsible for the whole mess in the first place.

Ah, nothing like a few bowls of scungilli, classy suits, bullets and zombies.

What them wise guys are saying:

"Zombies meet the Mob — what's not to like? Nick Cato's Don of the Dead takes an oh-so-cool central idea and turns it into a tale that is at times funny, often gory, and 100% a hell of a good time! I freakin' loved it . . . capisce?" - James Newman, author of Animosity, People Are Strange and Midnight Rain

"Don of the Dead is violent, visceral and fascinating--a comedy darker than heart blood." - Simon Clark, author of Blood Crazy and The Midnight Man

"Don of the Dead is the coolest concept story I've read in awhile and Nick Cato delivers the goods. It's as if George Romero has eaten the brains of Mario Puzo, Martin Scorcese and Dave Barry and spit out fictional gold. An ambitiously entertaining tale of mobsters, monsters, and mayhem, told with an offbeat mix of reverence, humor and horror. Recommended reading!" - Michael Arnzen, author of Licker and Proverbs for Monsters

“Don of the Dead is insanely entertaining—a splattery, whacked-out novel with outrageous characters and a frenzied pace. Miss this one, and you might as well be wearing cement shoes while zombies eat your face.” - Jeff Strand, author of The Sinister Mr. Corpse and Pressure

"Nick Cato takes a refreshing new look at zombies and knocks 'em dead . . . Italian-style!" - Monster Librarian

Most Interesting Writer in the World Takes Twain’s Huck Finn to the Grave

M E D I A R E L E A S E

CONTACT: Coscom Entertainment
E-mail: coscomentertainment@gmail.com
Web: www.coscomentertainment.com

For Immediate Release

Proud Lake, Saskatchewan—Writing genius W. Bill Czolgosz takes a careful look at slavery with Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, except now there’s zombies

First there was Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, then The War of the Worlds Plus Blood, Guts and Zombies. Now, there’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Zombie Jim.

It’s nineteenth century America and a mutant strain of tuberculosis is bringing its victims back from the dead. Sometimes they come back docile, and other times vicious. The vicious ones are sent back to Hell, but the docile ones are put to work as servants and laborers. With so many zombies on the market, the slave trade is nonexistent. The black man is at liberty, and human bondage is no more. Young Huckleberry Finn has grown up in a world that shuns the N-word, with its scornful eye set on a new class of shambling, putrid sub-humans: The Baggers.

“Like we did with Eric S. Brown and his take on The War of the Worlds, Bill came along and did the same with Huckleberry Finn, that is mimic to a T the original author’s voice in the book’s narrative,” says Coscom Entertainment publisher A.P. Fuchs. “All the slang, the cut-off words—everything—has been included in Czolgosz’s undead take on this story. People should also take note this story isn’t just about adding zombies to Twain’s book, as fun as doing that was—and that’s what these books are: just plain fun to do—it also carries with it a very strong message, one about racism, the slave trade and the value of human life, something amplified in the text.”

More from the book’s jacket copy: When his abusive father comes back into his life, Huck flees down the river with Bagger Jim, seeking a life of perfect freedom. When the pox mutates once again, causing even the tamest of baggers to become bloodthirsty monsters, the boy Finn is forced to question his relationship with his dearest, deadest friend. In this revised take on history and classic literature, the modern age is ending before it ever begins. Huckleberry Finn will inherit a world of horror and death, and he knows the mighty Mississippi might be the only way out . . .

The novel is set to be published on July 10, 2009.

For more on Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Zombie Jim by Mark Twain and W. Bill Czolgosz, please visit www.coscomentertainment.com

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Black Water - Second Digital Monsters Release - Out Now!

Black Water: A Cthulhu Story (also part of the Axiom-man Saga) by A.P. Fuchs, the second release in Coscom Entertainment's Digital Monsters line, is now available on Amazon Kindle. We expect to see it up on Fictionwise within the next couple of weeks.

Available on Amazon Kindle right here.

The Story:

Bodies litter the sand of a friendly beach. They have no muscles. No bones. They are just bags of skin.

And they are alive.

Axiom-man flies down to Florida to investigate only to discover this isn't your average series of murders. Something else caused the deaths of these innocent people, and something else has caused them to rise.

Something unnatural, perhaps even supernatural.

Something...from beneath the ocean's black water.

DriveThru Comics Interview

Coscom Entertainment was recently interviewed for online comics store, DriveThru Comics.

You can read it here.

Zombifrieze Now Available!

Zombifrieze by W. Bill Czolgosz and Sean Simmans is now available at the following on-line retailers:

Full-color Paperback:

Amazon.com
Amazon.ca
Amazon.co.uk
Barnes and Noble
Other On-line Retailers

Full-color eBook:

Amazon Kindle
Fictionwise.com

The Story:

Times are tough . . .

The ruling despots, from the safety of Ahura Mazda, their hidden underground fortress, have plunged the nation into civil war . . .

The church has been taken over by a pagan fanatic who craves Armageddon . . .

False-flag nuclear attacks on home soil are destroying the planet . . .

And now the dead have risen up to feast on the living.

Zora, an army deserter who hears voices from above, joins up with a baldly scalded nuke-survivor named Zeno in order to locate Ahura Mazda and deliver a taste of justice to the cowards who orchestrated the apocalypse . . . preferably without being served up as zombie lunch-meat.

A paranoid, absurdist fable spattered throughout with humor, bathos and viscera . . .

Coscom Entertainment to Soon Launch Digital Monsters eBook Line

Coscom Entertainment is proud to announce its forthcoming launch of its brand new Digital Monsters line of downloadable eBooks for your computer, Kindle, Sony Reader and other electronic book reading devices.

Coscom Entertainment is no stranger to the eBook market and has been publishing them since 2004 alongside its regular line of printed books. Now, the company takes another fantastic step as it continues its journey as a niche-publisher of monster and superhero fiction by introducing Digital Monsters, a new line of eBooks exclusively for longer pieces of fiction.

“For a writer, it’s much easier to sell a shorter piece, say, around 5,000 words than it is for them to try and find a market for longer works, ones around the 9,000-word mark. They’re too long for short story markets and too short to be stand-alone novellas,” says A.P. Fuchs, Coscom Entertainment’s publisher. “Now, with Digital Monsters, Coscom is providing a market for authors to place their monster-themed stories without having those stories sit in limbo in a desk drawer.”

Presently, plans are in place to make these titles available for the Amazon Kindle and Fictionwise.com.

“I’ve long known and experienced the exciting possibilities the digital market can bring and I’m eager to see where the Digital Monsters eBook line takes the company,” adds Fuchs.

Look for at least one new Digital Monsters title to be added to the Coscom Entertainment library each month.

For more information about Coscom Entertainment, please visit www.coscomentertainment.com

Cult of the Damned is Out Today!

Cult of the Damned (The Wraith Series, Book 3) by Frank Dirscherl is now available at the following on-line retailers:

Paperback:

Amazon.com
Amazon.ca
Amazon.co.uk
Barnes and Noble
Other On-line Retailers

eBook:

Amazon Kindle

The story:

The Wraith returns in this amazing tale of heroism, deadly evil and horror.

With the city back firmly in his grasp, crime lord and entrepreneur Robert Latham is celebrating by bankrolling Metro City’s 200th anniversary gala year, which includes the unveiling of a never-before-seen ancient Aztec stone carving—the Cortes Stone—at the City Gallery, a carving that has thrilled the scientific and artistic communities, but infuriated the monstrous Aztekoth.

Now, Aztekoth has formed his own cult of primeval, revenge-minded Aztec warriors who are capable of any atrocity. Their aim: to retrieve the carving, seek retribution upon its desecrators, and recreate their long-dead empire with the flesh of the population of Metro City!