
He now lives in New York City with his dog Mary Shelley and wife Elisabeth who, in her wedding vows, promised to “kick serious zombie ass” for him.įBI Special Agent Jameson Arkeley a/k/a vampire hunter teams up with a state trooper Laura Caxton to take on a vampire. He also holds a masters degree in Library Science from Pratt Institute. Wellington attended Syracuse University and received an MFA in creative writing from Penn State. He also made his debut as a comic book writer in 2009 with Marvel Zombies Return:Iron Man.

His novels have been featured in Rue Morgue, Fangoria, and the New York Times. Response to the project was so great that in 2004 Thunder’s Mouth Press approached David Wellington about publishing Monster Island as a print book. His career began in 2004 when he started serializing his horror fiction online, posting short chapters of a novel three times a week on a friend’s blog. His books have been translated into eleven langauges and are a global phenomenon. There are only 13 bullets between us, the living, and them, the damned.ĭavid Wellington is a contemporary American horror author, best known for his Zombie trilogy as well as his Vampire series and Werewolf series. Now there are only 13 bullets between Caxton and Arkeley and the vampires. They want her for a reason, one she can't guess a reason her sphinxlike partner knows but won't say a reason she has to find out - or die trying. But the worst thing is the feeling that the vampires want more than just her blood. In an abandoned asylum she is rotting, plotting, and biding her time in a way that only the undead can.Ĭaxton is out of her league on this case and more than a little afraid, but the fed made it plain that there is only one way out. Sure, it has been years since any signs of an attack, but Arkeley knows what most people don't: there is one left. When a state trooper named Caxton calls the FBI looking for help in the middle of the night, it is Arkeley who gets the assignment - who else? He's been expecting such a call to come eventually.


There Are Only 13 Bullets Between the World You Know and the World They RuleĪll the official reports say they are dead - extinct since the late '80s, when a fed named Arkeley nailed the last vampire in a fight that nearly killed him.
