Freeze Dried The Awakening

When a wealthy man with an incurable brain tumor spends millions to have himself frozen in cryogenic stasis until a cure can be found, he gets more than he bargained for. Unbeknownst to him, sixteen years into his cryo-sleep the cryogenics company "Eternal Slumber" secretly decides to substitute a vital chemical used in the freezing process with a cheap and untested alternative to lower the company's overhead. This decision ends up killing the first patient they test it on, only to have her dead corpse reanimate and become a flesh hungry monster. When the lab is overcome with a spread of infection that is killing people and bringing them back as crazed cannibals, the staff is killed and the lab is left to ruin. Three months later the cryo system fails and our hero is rudely awakened prematurely into a world that has been plagued by a holocaust of the living dead.

About the Author

Keith Carpenter has been a diehard zombie fan since he watched his first Romero film at the tender age of 14. Growing up a dyslexic kid, he loved to watch horror movies and dream up stories but having a hard time as a young reader, finishing an entire novel was always more of a chore than a delight. Despite this battle with dyslexia, he loved to write as a kid and was always penning his own fantasy adventure stories that tended to get creepier and creepier the older he got. He has spent most of his life watching every zombie movie he could get his hands on but it was only in the last decade or so that he got a hold of his first zombie horror novel, Reign of the Dead by Len Barnhart, which he couldn't put down and flew through in a few hours. Today he has a large collection of zombie anthologies, novels and graphic novels that he loves to read again and again. "I don't consider myself a great writer." He says, "But I can't help having stories to tell and I just have to write them down or my head will explode. I just hope someone out there will enjoy reading them." As a result of having a secret passion to someday produce his own zombie movie, Keith collaborated with his dear friend Matt Ficner and came up with a fresh new zombie story that he later wrote in the form of a full length movie screenplay by the title of Zombie Circus. The movie has yet to be made, but to date he has taken the movie script and adapted it into novel form which is available on Amazon.com. After writing the novel version of Zombie Circus, the bug bit him hard and he began work on the book you just read, Freeze Dried. He also plans sequels for both of these books, so keep your eyes open for them.

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