Kim Paffenroth

Orpheus and the Pearl

Author: Paffenroth, Kim
Artist: Freeman, Bob
Format: Trade Paperback
Type: Novel
Page Count: 90pp.
Pub. Date: February 21, 2008
Publisher: Magus Press

Bram Stoker Award-Winning author Kim Paffenroth tells a beautiful and macabre tale in Orpheus and the Pearl.

Dying to Live: A Novel of Life among the Undead

Author: Paffenroth, Kim
Format: Trade Paperback
Type: Novel
Page Count: 216pp.
Pub. Date: April 1, 2007
Publisher: Permuted Press

Jonah Caine, a lone survivor in a zombie-infested world, struggles to understand the apocalypse in which he lives. Unable to find a moral or sane reason for the horror that surrounds him, he is overwhelmed by violence and insignificance. After wandering for months, Jonah’s lonely existence dramatically changes when he discovers a group of survivors. Living in a museum-turned-compound, they are led jointly by Jack, an ever-practical and efficient military man, and Milton, a mysterious, quizzical prophet who holds a strange power over the dead. Both leaders share Jonah’s anguish over the brutality of their world, as well as his hope for its beauty. Together with others, they build a community that reestablishes an island of order and humanity surrounded by relentless ghouls. But this newfound peace is short-lived, as Jonah and his band of refugees clash with another group of survivors who remind them that the undead are not the only — nor the most grotesque — horrors they must face.

Gospel of the Living Dead: George A. Romero’s Visions of Hell on Earth

Author: Paffenroth, Kim
Format: Hardcover
Type: Non-Fiction
Page Count: 210pp.
Pub. Date: October 30, 2006
Publisher: Baylor University Press

The 2006 Bram Stoker Award winner for Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction. (tie)

Kim Paffenroth, (Ph.D. Notre Dame) a Professor of Religious Studies at Iona College, examines the zombie movies of George A. Romero for their religious and social meaning.

The Truth Is out There: Christian Faith and the Classics of TV Science Fiction

Author: Bertonneau, Thomas and Paffenroth, Kim
Format: Trade Paperback
Type: Non-Fiction
Page Count: 272pp.
Pub. Date: June 1, 2006
Publisher: Brazos Press

How does Star Trek‘s Captain Kirk live by the Golden Rule? How does The Twilight Zone show the effects of original sin in our world? And how do the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse make an appearance in The X-Files? In The Truth Is Out There, Thomas Bertonneau and Kim Paffenroth examine these and many other Christian themes in six highly popular science fiction television series — Star Trek, The Twilight Zone, The X-Files, Doctor Who, The Prisoner, and Babylon Five. The authors analyze each series to show its insight into many central aspects of Christianity, such as the battle between good and evil, virtue, community, grace, and the apocalypse. Their discussion will interest science fiction fans and will be a useful guide for church groups or undergraduate courses in pop culture.

History Is Dead: A Zombie Anthology

Editor: Paffenroth, Kim
Format: Trade Paperback
Type: Anthology
Page Count: 300pp.
Pub. Date: December 1, 2007
Publisher: Permuted Press

Our team of crack historians has uncovered the truth you never learned in school: the living dead have walked among us since the dawn of time. In this collection of gruesome tales from throughout the ages, the ravenous undead shamble through bloody battlefields, plague-ridden cities, genteel country estates, and dusty frontier towns. They emerge from foggy cemeteries, frozen barrows, loamy bogs, cursed mines, and gore-spattered operating rooms to prey on the living.

But these zombies don’t just eat people. They help painters and writers save their faltering careers. They unwittingly push humankind on the quest for fire. They topple evil capitalists and their corporate empires. They fight crime. They fall in love.

Join us on a journey into our zombie-filled past . . . Neither history nor the living dead have ever been this exciting!

Table of Contents:

• This Reluctant Prometheus by David Dunwoody
• The Gingerbread Man by Paula R. Stiles
• The Barrow Maid by Christine Morgan
• Harimoto by Scott A. Johnson
• The Moribund Room by Carole Lanham
• Theatre is Dead by Raoul Wainscoting
• The Anatomy Lesson by Jenny Ashford
• A Touch of the Divine by Patrick Rutigliano
• A Cure for All Ills by Linda L. Donahue
• Society and Sickness by Leila Eadie
• Summer of 1816 by James Roy Daley
• The Hell Soldiers by Juleigh Howard-Hobson
• Junebug by Rebecca Brock
• Starvation Army by Joe McKinney
• Pegleg and Paddy Save the World by Jonathan Maberry
• The Third Option by Derek Gunn
• The Loaned Ranger by John Peel
• Awake in the Abyss by Rich Moore
• The Travellin’ Show by Douglas Hutcheson
• Edison’s Dead Men by Ed Turner