Eric Pollarine of Flames Rising recently posted an interview with author, Kim Paffenroth!

Kim’s novella Orpheus & The Pearl releases alongside David Dunwoody’s Nevermore in late September, and his novel Closes at Dusk is scheduled for September 2011.

It seems as if, at the time, both you and Permuted Press, along with Max Brooks and Bryan Keene, all hit the nail on the head when it comes to the public’s want, or need for all things flesh eating, as in the last 4-5 years everything seems to have involved zombies in some way. What is it about zombies Kim? Why do you think they fascinate and terrify us?

They’ve got some of the usual monster fears – of being killed, of being eaten, of turning into one of “them.” But they also have this overwhelming sense of ordinariness – of how we already are them, we just don’t realize it yet. You see them wandering in the mall, and it’s a nervous laugh you give, because you know you look just like them, to some other objective observer. That gives them a different, steadier kind of dread, rather than just the adrenaline rush of being chased and killed.

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