EMPRESS OF THE LIVING DEAD collects 25 stories of horror and dark fantasy by Bram Stoker Award-winning author Mark McLaughlin. These stories are compiled in a paperback edition from three previous Kindle collections by McLaughlin - FOREIGN TONGUE, DRUNK ON THE WINE THAT POURS FROM MY WICKED EYES, and MAGIC CANNOT DIE. "Empress Of The LIving Dead," a tale of cult movies and zombies, completes this collection. The stories in this book abound with monsters, supernatural beings, aliens, practitioners of magic, kaiju, tentacled creatures and more. Stories in the collection include "Empress Of The Living Dead," "Cold-Blooded," "The Vainglorious Simulacrum Of Mungha Sorcyllamia: A Weird Romance," "Foreign Tongue," "The Astonishing Secret Of The King Of The Cats," "Zombies Are Forever," "Silky, Slinky, Fabulous - To Die For," "The Prince Of Dreadful Magick," "Why Cosmo Used To Wear A Lab Smock Every Halloween," "The Nightmare Quadrant: The Legacy Of Alphonse Sweetwater-DuBois," and many more. McLaughlin is the author of HIDEOUS FACES, BEAUTIFUL SKULLS and BEST LITTLE WITCH-HOUSE IN ARKHAM, among other horror collections. With Michael Sheehan, Jr., he has co-authored the Lovecraftian paperbacks, THE HOUSE OF THE OCELOT and HORRORS & ABOMINATIONS, as well as the Kindle collections, THE ABOMINATIONS OF NEPHREN-KA, THE HORROR IN THE WATER TOWER, THE BLASPHEMY IN THE CANOPIC JAR, SHOGGOTH APOCALYPSE, THE RELIC IN THE EGYPTIAN GALLERY, THE CREATURE IN THE WAXWORKS, THE TESTAMENT OF CTHULHU, and STAINLESS STEEL SARCOPHAGUS.