Love is horrible. It's ruthless, messy, mind-altering, and raw. It takes no prisoners. It chews you up and spits you out and leaves you for dead. Love is, you could say, very much like a zombie. In this haunting short story collection, anything is possible-a dying musician turns to tea for inspiration; a police sergeant struggles with a very unusual victim; a young wife is trapped in a house hiding unimaginable evil.... With "Hungry For You", A.M. Harte explores the disturbing and delightful in an anthology that unearths the thin boundary between love and death.
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"Ms. Harte writes with such beautiful subtlety that I really needed to pace myself reading Hungry For You." --Black Sun Reviews Black Sun Reviews Black Sun Reviews
"Picking a favourite [story] is like trying to choose an ice cream flavour on a hot day." --Hopelessly Devoted Bibliophile
"Engaging and heart-wrenching. The simultaneous themes of passion and destruction are unique, resulting in some chilling prose." --Frida Fantastic
"British author AM Harte gives us a different taste of zombies. There is something for everyone in Hungry For You." --One More Page
"Harte does a great job establishing pathos for the characters in each story. A clever juxtaposition of zombies and love."
--Darkeva's Dark Delights Darkeva's Dark Delights Darkeva's Dark Delights
"Picking a favourite [story] is like trying to choose an ice cream flavour on a hot day." --Hopelessly Devoted Bibliophile
"Engaging and heart-wrenching. The simultaneous themes of passion and destruction are unique, resulting in some chilling prose." --Frida Fantastic
"British author AM Harte gives us a different taste of zombies. There is something for everyone in Hungry For You." --One More Page
"Harte does a great job establishing pathos for the characters in each story. A clever juxtaposition of zombies and love."
--Darkeva's Dark Delights Darkeva's Dark Delights Darkeva's Dark Delights
About the Author
A.M. Harte is a London-based speculative fiction enthusiast and chocolate addict. She is an advocate of the Free Culture Movement and indie publishing in any shape or form. She is excellent at missing deadlines, has long forgotten what 'free time' means, and enjoys procrastinating at amharte.com.
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Hungry for You by A M Harte is a short fiction collection that examines the links between love, relationships and death. There are ten short tales each with their own take on these themes. My personal favourites are listed below.
Promises - An infected man watches as his girlfriend begins to turn into a zombie. In just three short pages Harte nicely sets the tone for what to expect from the other tales in the book.
Hungry for You - This story was one of the highlights of the collection for me. It reads like a police procedural but with added zombies. Some interesting ideas about how the undead are seen, and used by the living. This reads like a prologue to a larger story and I would be keen to read more.
A Prayer to Garlic - I like when an author takes an existing mythos and turns it on its head. What happens when an unfeeling creature like a zombie begins to care?
Dead Man's Rose - A women is trapped in an abusive relationship. She finds the strength to deal with her predicament only to end up even more trapped than before. The author uses both types of entrapment as effective metaphors for one another.
The Cure - The story feels like a homage to the work of George A. Romero. I was pleased to see the inclusion of a shopping mall in the collection. What is a zombie story without an iconic location? Again Harte takes existing mythology and twists it around making something new.
The Perfect Song - A darkly comic story of music, and tea addiction. A very simple story with the bare minimum of characters set in a single location that is made all the more effective by its confines. Fancy a brew?
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Promises - An infected man watches as his girlfriend begins to turn into a zombie. In just three short pages Harte nicely sets the tone for what to expect from the other tales in the book.
Hungry for You - This story was one of the highlights of the collection for me. It reads like a police procedural but with added zombies. Some interesting ideas about how the undead are seen, and used by the living. This reads like a prologue to a larger story and I would be keen to read more.
A Prayer to Garlic - I like when an author takes an existing mythos and turns it on its head. What happens when an unfeeling creature like a zombie begins to care?
Dead Man's Rose - A women is trapped in an abusive relationship. She finds the strength to deal with her predicament only to end up even more trapped than before. The author uses both types of entrapment as effective metaphors for one another.
The Cure - The story feels like a homage to the work of George A. Romero. I was pleased to see the inclusion of a shopping mall in the collection. What is a zombie story without an iconic location? Again Harte takes existing mythology and twists it around making something new.
The Perfect Song - A darkly comic story of music, and tea addiction. A very simple story with the bare minimum of characters set in a single location that is made all the more effective by its confines. Fancy a brew?
I really enjoyed Hungry For You.... Read more ›
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Damn you zombies, I keep coming back to you. I really don't like you. That's the thing with having nine days off from work, and not really needing any sleep. You start to whittle down the review pile, and you pick up books, that while you haven't forgotten about you may have forgotten what they were about. Hungry for you is a collection of zombie based short stories and poetry. WAIT don't go running. Where this book differs to most other shambler novels is that it explores the themes of love, relationships, and death.
As always, I skipped over the poems, I've said it once and I'll say it again, I don't do poems, dirty limericks yes, but not poetry. My English teacher couldn't get me to read poems, so there is no chance any of you out there will get me to read them.
So taking away the poems what are we left with. We are left with a pretty decent bunch of short stories. Yes some of them could have done with being a bit more fleshed out. Personally i also thought some of the stories where trying too hard to do something different with the zombie genre. However, as someone who is well past being jaded with the genre I have to applaud her attempt to try something new.
Overall this is a decent collection, that I think would appeal more to the female end of the horror spectrum.
As always, I skipped over the poems, I've said it once and I'll say it again, I don't do poems, dirty limericks yes, but not poetry. My English teacher couldn't get me to read poems, so there is no chance any of you out there will get me to read them.
So taking away the poems what are we left with. We are left with a pretty decent bunch of short stories. Yes some of them could have done with being a bit more fleshed out. Personally i also thought some of the stories where trying too hard to do something different with the zombie genre. However, as someone who is well past being jaded with the genre I have to applaud her attempt to try something new.
Overall this is a decent collection, that I think would appeal more to the female end of the horror spectrum.
Format:Paperback
An incredible collection of short stories about zombies and so much more.
I am still on the fence about zombies. I love other supernatural/paranormal creatures and will read almost anything with them involved (vampires, werewolves, angels, demons, and the like), but I have to think about whether or not I want to read a book about zombie. I was incredibly pleased with Harte's stories. She is an incredible short story and packs quite a punch in a few pages. Sure, there were zombies, but they were a backdrop to love, hate, despair, hope, anger. My favorite stories were the tea addict (who thought tea could be addictive), zombies who need sex to survive (such a twist), and the giant rose (so damn creepy!).
I would recommend this fans of horror, zombies, and anyone who enjoys stories that pack an emotional punch.
I am still on the fence about zombies. I love other supernatural/paranormal creatures and will read almost anything with them involved (vampires, werewolves, angels, demons, and the like), but I have to think about whether or not I want to read a book about zombie. I was incredibly pleased with Harte's stories. She is an incredible short story and packs quite a punch in a few pages. Sure, there were zombies, but they were a backdrop to love, hate, despair, hope, anger. My favorite stories were the tea addict (who thought tea could be addictive), zombies who need sex to survive (such a twist), and the giant rose (so damn creepy!).
I would recommend this fans of horror, zombies, and anyone who enjoys stories that pack an emotional punch.
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
Hungry for You is a collection of tales that surround a single event that takes place in the near future; Zombiepocalypse. At first I didn't get it, thinking it was novel and trying to fix on a protagonist. Maybe I should have read the blurb before buying the booking. It was an impulse purchase, following reading an interview with the author at Gayla Drummond's blog, Feral Intensity. But once I got past that fact, I was able to enjoy the volume for what it is. Hungry for You doesn't attempt to pull different characters together or even try for an overarching plot. Instead its held together by a common theme; love. Each story presents a relationship dynamic between humans and zombies or zombie and zombie, made unique by how the plague of zombification has impacted these relationships and how different forms of love transgress the boundaries of life and death. The writing is good and the volume showcases the author's storytelling abilities well. I recommend it to fans of zombie flash-fiction.
Format:Kindle Edition
Hungry For You is a collection of short stories by A.M. Harte. The common thread that holds all of these stories together is love. This love is the warped, dark love that walks the line between life and death. I think A.M Harte said it best when she says, "Love is, you could say, very much like a zombie."
The stories that Ms. Harte has created takes a new approach on zombie love. What if being a zombie was common and couples not only had to deal with every day situations but had the added stress of decomposition to worry about? A perfect, and somewhat humorous, example is A Prayer to Garlic. Told from the wife's point of view, A Prayer to Garlic tells the story of what concerns a wife, who happens to be a zombie, has when her mother-in-law is coming over for dinner. But this isn't your average zombie couple. Mog and his wife happen to prefer pork over human meat which goes against everything the zombie mother-in-law stands for. Let's hope the garlic will disguise the pork and the mother-in-law won't notice the difference.
In The Perfect Song, Ms. Harte reminds me that there may be more than one way to become a zombie and affirms my decision to not drink tea at the same time. When a batch of contaminated tea is released as an herbal alternative to anti-depressants, Michael decides to give it a try in order to take his mind off of his current situation. Michael just wants to make Valerie proud of his music and in turn, proud of him. But how does a zombie stay focused when he is determined to get his next fix?
And last but not least, the story in which this collection is named after, Hungry For You. This story takes a much different approach than the rest of its companions. Ms. Harte shows us that there is more than one way to skin a rat...... Read more ›
The stories that Ms. Harte has created takes a new approach on zombie love. What if being a zombie was common and couples not only had to deal with every day situations but had the added stress of decomposition to worry about? A perfect, and somewhat humorous, example is A Prayer to Garlic. Told from the wife's point of view, A Prayer to Garlic tells the story of what concerns a wife, who happens to be a zombie, has when her mother-in-law is coming over for dinner. But this isn't your average zombie couple. Mog and his wife happen to prefer pork over human meat which goes against everything the zombie mother-in-law stands for. Let's hope the garlic will disguise the pork and the mother-in-law won't notice the difference.
In The Perfect Song, Ms. Harte reminds me that there may be more than one way to become a zombie and affirms my decision to not drink tea at the same time. When a batch of contaminated tea is released as an herbal alternative to anti-depressants, Michael decides to give it a try in order to take his mind off of his current situation. Michael just wants to make Valerie proud of his music and in turn, proud of him. But how does a zombie stay focused when he is determined to get his next fix?
And last but not least, the story in which this collection is named after, Hungry For You. This story takes a much different approach than the rest of its companions. Ms. Harte shows us that there is more than one way to skin a rat...... Read more ›
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