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“Shocking,
emotional, and punctuated by moments of brutal savagery, SLOWLY WE ROT contains
some of the most frightening scenes in recent horror fiction. If you enjoy
zombie stories, you’ll love this book. If you believe there’s no life left in
the zombie subgenre, Bryan Smith is about to prove you wrong. SLOWLY WE ROT is
a searing, stunning triumph.”
--Jonathan
Janz, author of The Nightmare Girl and Savage Species
A
novel of the zombie apocalypse that's NOT about the zombies. Long after a
plague that wiped out most of the human race, a young man named Noah resides in
a remote mountain cabin. Several years have passed since he last saw another
human being. The long period of isolation and loneliness has fostered a deep
despair in Noah, who also struggles with suicidal impulses. But Noah is a man
who was struggling even before the end of the world, a seemingly helpless slave
to his addictions. When the vindictive sister he has long believed dead
unexpectedly returns, events transpire that prompt him to leave his mountain
refuge and embark on a cross-country trek to find the lost love of his life. It
doesn't matter that she’s probably long dead. He just needs a purpose again and
this is it. Along the way, he experiences moments of hope and profound tragedy.
Soon Noah’s sanity begins to fray and his ability to distinguish between fantasy
and reality starts to disintegrate. Through it all, he keeps trying to reach
the one he lost long ago. And he’ll continue no matter what, even if it costs
him his life, because it’s a big, empty world and this is all he has.
"Sure,
there are flesh-eating zombies in Bryan Smith’s gut-punch of a novel, SLOWLY WE
ROT, but in telling the tale of one man’s nightmarish journey through a
post-apocalyptic landscape, Smith reminds us of the most brutal truth of all:
the worst monsters dwell inside us."
– Tim Waggoner, author of LIKE DEATH and EAT THE
NIGHT
“SLOWLY
WE ROT sneaks up on you like the walking dead. It opens in familiar territory,
and then, slowly and methodically, sheds the trappings of the genre… piece by
bloody piece. Bryan Smith’s latest is bleak and brutal, an uncompromising and
completely unpredictable genre-bender. As heartfelt as it is batshit, purple
sky crazy, SLOWLY WE ROT belongs on the shelf next to Brian Keene’s THE
RISING.”
--Mason
James Cole,
Author
of PRAY TO STAY DEAD and BUSTER VOODOO
"SLOWLY WE ROT isn't just the best book I've read in years. It might be my favorite of all time. I can't remember the last time a story invoked such an array of emotions from me. When I was finished, I knew Smith had taken me on a brutal journey that I will never forget."--Kristopher Rufty, author of JAGGER and THE LURKING SEASON
