Deadly, Unstoppable Zombie Horde on the World—Hailed as “A Frightening, Violent, and

Gory Un-Dead Story”

 

 

Masterfully crafted by Scott Shoyer, The Mutation, the powerful second volume in the Outbreak

trilogy, continues to break the stagnant mold of zombie fiction as it ensnare and brings readers

along in a deadly last chance attempt to save the world from complete annihilation. The Mutation

takes place two years after a deadly virus swept across the world. Not only does Shoyer have his

readers follow two groups of people as they fight for survival, but he again takes readers where

they have never been before—this time on a horrifying trip inside the minds of the deadly

zombies themselves. The Mutation is intense, violent, and brings the genre back from the dead.

 

 

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Austin, Texas – While nobody will deny zombie fiction’s huge surge in popularity, both readers

and critics alike are currently crying out for wholly unique, mould-breaking narratives that don’t

succumb to the recycling of the same old ideas. Thankfully, Scott Shoyer has stepped up to the

plate with gusto.

Volume one of Shoyer’s Outbreak trilogy has already injected literally new blood into the

market. In The Hunger, readers were captivated as a seemingly innocent day at the zoo led to a

violent and world-threatening zombie apocalypse. In volume two, The Mutation, Shoyer further

explores the world that he created in volume one and details how two groups of survivors are

coping with their fight for survival. In true Shoyer style, he now explores new territory by taking

the reader on a horrifying trip inside the minds of the deadly zombies themselves.

Synopsis:

Zombies have overrun the world making human beings an endangered species. The zombies are

getting stronger, smarter, and deadlier. The remaining human survivors are finding it more and

more difficult to fight them off. Amidst this apocalyptic war, two separate groups of survivors

are drawn to the small, seemingly dead town of Spicewood, Texas—but for very different

reasons. There is Walt and his group of ex-addicts, and Wilder and Butsko, two of the only

characters who made it out of The Hunger alive. Each group believes that what lies in

Spicewood, Texas could alter the course of the war with the dead. But what they couldn't know is

that what also lies in Spicewood, Texas might be the source of the outbreak itself and the very

end to all life on earth.

“The Mutation continues to explore the world I created in The Hunger,” explains the author,

founder of the popular AnythingHorror.com website and community. “In the first volume I traced

the origin of the outbreak back to those lovable creatures that live all around us—animals.

Readers loved the source of the outbreak. But now the virus has mutated, and The Mutation will

take readers into the same world, but with seemingly unstoppable zombies who have gotten

stronger, smarter, and deadlier.”

 

Cotinuing“The Outbreak trilogy was designed from the ground up to give the zombie genre

something new. As strange as it sounds, zombie fiction can often have a distinct lack of zombies,

with the human drama taking center stage and dragging readers away from what they really

want—zombie action. I promise my readers that the violence, gore, and horror will keep coming

at them hard and fast, while also having interesting, strong characters that drive the narrative

forward.”

 

It is a creative cocktail that appears to be working; readers have come out in force with rave

reviews for volume one, Outbreak: The Hunger. For example, one Amazon customer comments,

“This was an exhilarating read. The author brings a new and terrifying twist to the zombie horror

genre. I read this book in one nail-biting sitting. The unimaginable horrors of this story will keep

me up for many nights and will have me looking at my beloved pets with a wary eye. Great

read.”

 

Early praise for Outbreak: The Mutation suggests Shoyer has successfully continued what he

started in The Hunger. David Bernstein, author of Toxic Behemoth, writes, “Shoyer raises the

stakes with his second book in the Outbreak series, giving us an even smarter, deadlier and

harder to kill enemy. Loaded with brutal violence and military action and an ending that took me

by total surprise, Outbreak: The Mutation is a must read!”

 

 

Joe McKinney, award-winning author of Dead City and The Dead Won’t Die writes, “Scott

Shoyer steps into the ring swinging as he continues with the next harrowing volume in the

Outbreak series. As I've come to expect from him, he handles his action with a sure hand, both

violent and furious, and his characters with unrelenting viciousness.”

 

Outbreak: The Hunger and Outbreak: The Mutation are both published by Severed Press.

Outbreak: The Mutation is available on amazon.com in both eBook and paperback.

For more information about the author and his other published works, visit his Author Page on

Amazon.

 

 

About the author, in his own words:

I’m a horror writer who is also a life long fan. I draw inspiration from everyday situations and

then put them through my twisted filter to hopefully shock, disgust, and entertain you.

I find my heaviest influences from the writings of H.P. Lovecraft and Clive Barker. With my

Outbreak trilogy I get to write about the sub-genre I grew up on—zombies—and while doing so

I get to add my unique twist to it. In addition to zombies, I also love writing about more human

monsters and I have many more ideas for novels, short stories, novellas, and scripts. I recently

wrote a short script for a brutal, violent Joker-Batman confrontation, and I am currently writing a

series of novellas that are heavily influenced by Lovecraft. I’ve created my own Lovecraftian

world full of nightmarish creatures and madness—including horrible things that live in the

darkness.