Jonathan Crowl Alone with the Living Dead

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Enter Charlie Loomis. Locked safely behind a solid steel door in theembalming room of Pine Hills funeral home, he chronicles his experiencesin the embalmers notebook, before he prepares to decide his fate!A gravedigger at Pine Hills cemetery, in his hometown of Dyersville. Charlie has started his day as he would any other. Digging a fresh gravewith his workmate Bill Myers on a rainy summer morning. Except on thisparticular day, the people he worked so hard to put in the ground arereturning to life! In fact, worldwide the dead are rising and Charlieflees for his life as the corpses rise from their muddy graves; hungry tofeed on live flesh.Relive the nightmare as Charlie takes you through every gory detail ashe battles rotted corpses, observes a feeding frenzy in the bedroom of adeserted home, falls elbow deep in the blackened guts of an obese zombie,and attempts to save the life of an eight- year -old little girl named Sally,All while on a frantic desperate search to find his wife and son.Body fluids spew and appendages fly as Charlie fights his way to thechurch where he desperately hopes to find his family, Only to experiencea scene of horrific and epic proportions.Injured and in shock, Charlie and Sally face an impending doom. Thatis, until they are saved by an unlikely hero. A local homeless man namedArchibald Jones. As the one time doctor turned local mad man performssurgery and tends to their extensive injuries, deep in his sewer home,Charlie starts to suspect that their savior might have a more sinistermotivation for keeping them alive! Live (or die) with charlie as youfollow his nightmare alone with the living dead!