Posts by Chris Walters
Chris Walters is a one-time horror writer who might someday write another horror story. In the meantime, he'll obsess over parasitic infestations, the nature of evil, and practical special effects.

Zombie Pizza iPhone game temporarily free

If you own an iPhone or iPod Touch and want to check out the Zombie Pizza game, the publisher Appy Entertainment has dropped the price from $2 to free for a limited time.

I reviewed the game earlier this year, and I think it’s a fun casual game if you like pattern matchers like Frenzic. There’s already a free “lite” version available, but at least for today you can go ahead and grab the real thing without paying a dime.

iPhone app review: Zombie Pizza


Check out Zombie Pizza:

Full Version:
Zombie Pizza
Lite Version:
Zombie Pizza Lite


 

 

April 16, 2010 | Filed Under Apps, Games, News, Zombies | View Comments 

Review: “The Atrocity Archives” and “The Jennifer Morgue” by Charles Stross

Here’s the easiest way to decide whether you’d enjoy the three novels, one novella, and three short stories that so far make up The Laundry, a horror/sf thriller series by Charles Stross. See how many of the following statements you agree with:

  1. I enjoy the idea of Lovecraftian horrors.
  2. I enjoy James Bond and/or other British spy series.
  3. I’m a geek, or at least I appreciate geek humor and geek terminology.
  4. I am familiar with and have contempt for the bureaucratic nonsense of large organizations. Specifically, I hate PowerPoints.
  5. I watched Animaniacs in the 90s.
  6. I like conspiracies.
  7. I enjoy sci-fi, and/or I like the idea of string theory and multiverses.

If you agree with at least four of those statements, give the Laundry books a shot.

Okay, more details: the stories take place in the present day, in our world, but there’s a lot about our world that various governments keep hidden from average schmucks like you and me.

For one thing, Alan Turing–the famous (and real) cryptographer who cracked German codes in WWII and is the sort of the father of computer science–uncovered a final mathematical proof that just happens to allow access to other universes in our multiverse. Sometimes there are very hostile entities in those other universes, things that feed on information and that can take hold of a person’s body, eat his mind, and spread by contact to other people in milliseconds. Read more

April 8, 2010 | Filed Under Books & Writing, Lovecraft, Reviews | View Comments 

iPhone app review: Zombie Smash!

Castle defense games and zombie scenarios are both pretty tired concepts for the App Store, but despite that, Zombie Smash keeps me entertained. I think it’s a great go-to game when you want to kill a few minutes (and zombies) between more pressing activities. Read more

April 4, 2010 | Filed Under Apps, Games, Reviews, Zombies | View Comments 

Jewelry for the fashionable zombie lover

I don’t know much about accessorizing, but I know that frequently one puts rings and bracelets on one’s body to achieve that “put together” look. If you’re one of those people, and if you love zombies, you need to know about Undead Ed.

Ed makes rings and bracelets (among other creepy and usually silly things) out of polymer clay and found objects, and he sells them on his Etsy store for reasonable prices. Let’s face it–you’re not likely to find rotting flesh designs at local boutiques, and to my great surprise maggot-themed jewelry still hasn’t caught on at the big department stores.

The gorgeous and oversized Zombie Eye ring above has already sold, unfortunately, but there’s still a blue one available, as well as bracelets and other zombie-themed rings. If you’d rather have zombie dolls and objects instead of jewelry Ed’s got plenty of other options for you; I really like the miniature zombie-piggy bank.

Undead Ed’s Art [Etsy via Boingboing]

March 29, 2010 | Filed Under Clothing, Shopping, Zombies | View Comments 

Taunt your family from the dead with a talking tombstone

Video tombstones and talking tombstones have, in theory at least, been around for a while. Or wait, maybe I’m thinking of Futurama. At any rate here’s another talking tombstone product, this one from a company called Objects.

The RosettaStone Tablet is a $200 device about the size of a credit card that can be embedded in or stuck to grave markers. It stores data on RFID circuitry, then powers up when a compatible cell phone is within range and transmits the data to the phone’s recipient.

Here’s my question: if you use the device for from-the-grave sexting, is that considered necrophilia?

“Speak From the Dead Via Talking Tombstone” [Tom's Guide]

(Photo: alistairhamilton and ElvertBarnes)

March 28, 2010 | Filed Under Funerals, Technology | View Comments 

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