Zombies and Power Tools

The latest bloody offering from Alan Spencer is a fairy straight-forward story of zombies and power tools titled, you guessed it, Zombies and Power Tools.  The premise of the story is that Sam Kolke, the owner of the local cemetery, gets attacked by four corpses.  The corpses leave a message in blood of "CONFESS MURDERER" and soon, the local sheriff gets involved.  Before long, Sam, Bruce (the sheriff), and Walter are all having to keep their secret from their loved ones, with Bruce going as far as to cover up any evidence of the zombie attacks.  However, the newly revived corpses remain persistent in their quest to coerce confessions from the trio, eventually resorting to killing the townsfolk by unusual means: with miter saws, wood chippers, and other forms of power tools.  Do the trio confess their murders and live or do they die with their secrets?  The only way to find out is to read on.

For the first quarter of the story, there isn't much in the way of gore, as Zombies and Power Tools decides to build its story through Sam, Bruce, and Walter, as well as Sam's son Ryan and his wife Stacy.  Throughout the story, references to Lillie Table and Frank Mueller are made, and they will be important figures to the story, as the reader will figure out.  When the first murders happen, everything seems to snowball from there, and soon, the entire town suffers at the hands of the zombies, which grow in numbers as the story progresses through unusual means.  No detail of how this happens is spared, and though it is unbelievable to many, logic does not apply in horror, movie or book form.  The story itself is somewhat plodding, particularly the the first half, but like a puzzle, the reader will feel compelled to complete it just to see what the finish looks like.  Want blood?  Zombies and Power Tools has plenty, and it doesn't hold back.  Recommended if you like mindless violence, but don't expect any part of the story to make sense.  Then again, if you're a horror fan, you expect things to not make sense.