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Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Apocalyptic fiction is all the rage these days. If it's not zombies, it's zombie-like beings terrorizing survivors. It sometimes seems like everyone is doing it.
Why? Maybe it's a residual of the shock and horror of 9/11. That awful day made most Americans feel that the society that they loved to hate, but took for granted, could crumble.
Or maybe it's just a trend. Either way there are so many zombie/apocalyptic stories in the horror genre that it has become a cliche. It reminds me of the hoary old Indian Burial Grounds and Evil Tots of the 80's.
But you know what? As hoary and predictable as those 80's cliches were, I had a lot of fun reading many of them and I now look back upon them with fondness. And today I enjoy some of these post-apocalypse stories. I enjoyed J.F. Gonzalez's Primitive recently and I liked Lisa Morton's The Lucid Dreaming even more.
The story begins in a mental health facility, where a girl named Spike is staying. Spike is a schizophrenic with violent tendencies. The staff begins acting very strangely and
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