Walter Greatshell
http://www.waltergreatshell.com
Welcome to the mind of Walter Greatshell. Just about
everything you find on his website has been drawn, painted,
written, or otherwise created by him. The only exceptions
are the cover art for his novel Xombies and Xombies:
Apocalypse Blues, which are by Berkley/Ace, and the layout
of the site itself, for which he thanks Brian Greene of bgfolio.
The rest is mine, all mine.
Enter. Explore! Surf the inner wallpaper of his tortured
psyche. And if you should happen to be a publisher, film
producer, or anyone else with a professional interest in him
or his work, welcome! He'd love to hear from you.
But who, you may ask, is Walter Greatshell?
To answer that question, we must go back a long way...all
the way to 1962. To the time of the Beatles and Ed Sullivan
and John F. Kennedy. Back to the sleepy little hamlet of
Torrance, California, where in the hushed maternity ward of
Harbor General Hospital, a new life is about to be born...
Etcetera etcetera — fast forward to the present.
Nowadays he lives with his wife and son in Providence, Rhode
Island. When not writing satirical horror novels a la
Xombies, he dabbles in freelance illustration (with an eye
to creating dark children's books, comics or graphic
novels), humorous nonfiction (a throwback to his early days
as a freelance journalist and arts critic), and stage acting
(most recently in local productions of Oedipus Rex and Karel
Capek's R.U.R.). Which is to say He's unemployed. The last
real job he had was as a graveyard-shift nuclear-submarine
technician, and before that he was the general manager of a
Providence landmark: the Avon Cinema. What he does next is
anyone's guess.
Seriously, got any suggestions?
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Books
Mad Skills
December 28, 2010
Unconscious for fourteen months after a debilitating
accident, Maddy Grant awakens at the Braintree Institute,
where scientists have successfully implanted her with a
radical technology designed to correct her brain injury. But
Maddy is Read more...
Xombies: Apocalypticon
February 23, 2010
Survivors of a cataclysmic zombie-making plague leave a
temporary safety of a refitted nuclear sub to scavenge for
food and supplies on land. But they soon find themselves
facing new terrors on the Read more...
Xombies: Apocalypse Blues
September 29, 2009
When the Agent X plague struck, it infected women
first, turning them into mindless killers intent only on
creating an army of "Xombies" by spreading their disease.
Running for her life, seventeen-year-old Read more...
Xombies
August 1, 2004
Agent X is unlike anything modern science has seen
before—a fast-spreading virus that turns the infected
into raving maniacs on the hunt for earth's few remaining
survivors.
One of those survivors Read more...
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