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#371: Lightning Strikes Twice in ‘Z is for Zombie’ (1937) by Theodore Roscoe

April 7, 2018April 6, 2018 / JJ / 8 Comments

Z is for Zombie

It’s just over a year since Bold Venture Press republished Theodore Roscoe’s Murder on the Way! (1935), in which I was fortunate enough to have a hand.  As luck would have it, I recently acquired a copy of Roscoe’s equally zombie-centric and Haiti-set ‘Z is for Zombie’ (1937) and thought the two might bear some comparison.

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