The Walking Dead: Season Two, But Not Yet!

A few days ago, word broke that Breaking Bad actor Bryan Cranston told New York Magazine that Season two of The Walking Dead would premiere this month, not in October, as originally announced:

"And I believe they're going to put Walking Dead in July as well. I think it's just a sensible thing — they want to attract as many eyeballs as possible, away from the heavy competition of the September, November, January start."

Exciting, right? New Walking Dead any day now!

Settle, settle--it's not happening. I asked someone at AMC, and the response I received was simple:

"The Walking Dead will premiere around Halloween. It is not premiering now."

So there. Makes sense, considering that the season two promotion machine did not rumble into motion until tonight, with the release of this teaser trailer:



It's more stylized than I'd expect, but it does what it's supposed to do: let you know that a new season of The Walking Dead is right around the corner. Excited?

Welcome to Zombie Talk

There's not a lot here. There will be soon. Stuff like:

• News on PRINT IS DEAD's latest releases.
  
  
• News on AMC's The Walking Dead and the film version of World War Z.
  
  
• Interviews with some really awesome zombie authors, including Jonathan Maberry, Joe McKinney, and many more.
  
  
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For starters, you might be wondering: What the heck is PRINT IS DEAD?

It's a line from Ghostbusters, and it's also the name of the new zombie imprint from acclaimed indie-publisher, Creeping Hemlock Press. We launched in 2005, with Corpse Blossoms, a Stoker-nominated anthology that Jack Ketchum called "the best, most consistently satisfying anthology" that he'd read in years. Earlier this year at World Horror 2011 in Austin, we unveiled our first three zombie novels:

• Pray to Stay Dead by Mason James Cole
  
  
• World In Red by John Sebastian Gorumba
  
  
• Scavengers by Nate Southard

All three books are receiving rave reviews, and this is just the beginning: we have several other excellent zombie titles in the pipeline, including The Living by Kealan Patrick Burke and Reanimated Americans by Martin Mundt. 2012 will bring even more zombie awesomeness-- much of which I can't even tell you about. We'll be working with some of very best horror writers around to bring you the very best in zombie fiction.

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