Steven E. Wedel offers four short stories that run the gamut from pure horror to shocking hilarity. In The Zombie Whisperer, a young woman living in a secure compound with a few fellow survivors of the zombie apocalypse invites in a man who says he can communicate with the walking dead. In One Night in Benevolence a man returns to the home where he suffered so much abuse at the hands of his now-dead father, only to find that some things are never forgotten, and some words mean more than others. Dead Betty tells the tale of a scientist who finds a way to reanimate the dead. Unfortunately, he underestimates the power of his amorous creation. Three buddies on a fishing expedition in Oklahoma’s backwoods reel in more than they bargained for when Noodlers Nab Nekkid Nymphs.