I found these zombies arresting, at Zombiefest 2008.

Zombiefest 2008 — held at the Monroeville Mall in Pittsburgh this weekend — has so far been both fun and disturbingly surreal.  I’ve posted some photos from the first day of the dead in the gorelets.com gallery – mostly of friends in publishing, but also a few freaky shots like the one above.  Aside from crawling the mall, hanging out at my publisher‘s table and saying “Brainnns!” over and over again, yesterday I performed a fiction reading along with Ryan Mecum (author of Zombie Haiku) and Steve North (author of Dead Tide) — which you should be able to hear a podcast of soon on Library of the Living Dead – and I was also videorecorded doing another reading of weird excerpts from my “dream journal” for FearZone.com, appearing soon.  This morning portends a record-breaking “mall crawl” for World Zombie Day.