Books with author Paul S. Dead

Zombies and Wolfmen and Ghosts - oh my! When a little boy named JC enters The Dead Tree Forest with his best friend and favorite toy, Zombi The Zombie, he learns that Zombi has a whole bunch of other friends here in this world. There’s: Wolfey - a super-fun and energetic wolfman; Mum-Z - a serious, brainy mummy; Gho-Stee - a gentle and caring ghost; Skellii - a sweet but ditzy skeleton; Vam Pea - a musical/artsy vampire; Franky - a bossy, gadget-building Frankenstein monster; and Witchie - a clever, science-loving witch. But JC and Zombi soon discover that while Zombi was living as a toy in The Real World with JC, a beast ate Witchie’s house - a house that was made of delicious candy! Sure, Witchie had cast a magical spell over the house to make it uneatable, but the beast had struck during a full moon. And everyone knows how spells can go gaga during a full moon. So the friends all agree to help Witchie build a new home. However, they also know that first they have to do something about this beast called The Candy Monster. But what exactly will they do about it? And why is The Candy Monster even in The Dead Tree Forest to begin with? Will the friends get eaten themselves? You'll just have to read the story to find out! This book is for kids who love the Winnie-The-Pooh stories. In the same way that a wild, ferocious animal like a bear was transformed into a cuddly, lovable companion, this book introduces a friendly, happy zombie, who takes us on similar, cheerful adventures.

Lems, small furry people, live in secret passages within the buildings of the much larger zooks. Zooks hunt, poison, and trap their small neighbors, unaware of their true nature. Then the lem leader, Old Gray, announces, “The time has come,” and the lems leave their warrens and begin a prophesied journey to the Portal where the Chosen are destined to go to a mysterious place called Tomorrow. Zooks learn of the exodus, and frightened by the danger the lems pose to long-term zook security, begin an all out campaign to destroy them before any escape. Trez, thirteen years old and Chosen, flees with his mother and sister from the only home they have ever known. Racing against time, he and his family cross deserts, forests, and mountains, living on what they can find or steal from their zook enemies. Along the way, they dodge the zooks, their fierce deggs and kaats, and the most awesome danger of all: zook hunter-killer robots. Driven by faith as much as reason, they risk all to fulfill a prophecy they scarcely comprehend in search of a future beyond their imagination.

While exploring the cosmos, humans sometimes encounter intelligent beings very different from themselves. Dealing with these beings requires learning to understand them. Yet acquiring the knowledge needed to do that is not easy, as the people in these five stories discover. In The Home Song, a pair of ship wrecked space travelers must learn how to get the cooperation of a being whose nature they can hardly imagine. In Survival City, the survivors of a civilization-destroying war have to decide what they should share and what is not worth sharing. In Crucible of Vyath, a teenage boy, captured by the most feared enemy humans have ever encountered, has to find an ally among his enemies before he can find the key to his freedom. In Fatal Flaw, four alien abductees, while coping with what appears to be incomprehensible evil, must look past that evil to understand their captors. In Dilemma, two scientists, working to save a people who follow rules of conduct utterly at odds with their own, must decide if it is ever right to compromise principle as a matter of principle.

Zombies and Wolfmen and Ghosts - oh my! When a little boy named JC enters The Dead Tree Forest with his best friend and favorite toy, Zombi The Zombie, he learns that Zombi has a whole bunch of other friends here in this world. There’s: Wolfey - a super-fun and energetic wolfman; Mum-Z - a serious, brainy mummy; Gho-Stee - a gentle and caring ghost; Skellii - a sweet but ditzy skeleton; Vam Pea - a musical/artsy vampire; Franky - a bossy, gadget-building Frankenstein monster; and Witchie - a clever, science-loving witch. But JC and Zombi soon discover that while Zombi was living as a toy in The Real World with JC, a beast ate Witchie’s house - a house that was made of delicious candy! Sure, Witchie had cast a magical spell over the house to make it uneatable, but the beast had struck during a full moon. And everyone knows how spells can go gaga during a full moon. So the friends all agree to help Witchie build a new home. However, they also know that they first have to do something about this beast called The Candy Monster. But what exactly will they do about it? And why is The Candy Monster even in The Dead Tree Forest to begin with? Will the friends get eaten themselves? You'll just have to read the story to find out! This book is for kids who love the Winnie-The-Pooh stories. In the same way that a wild, ferocious animal like a bear was transformed into a cuddly, lovable companion, this book introduces a friendly, happy zombie, who takes us on similar, cheerful adventures.

Lems, small furry people, live in secret passages within the buildings of the much larger zooks. Zooks hunt, poison, and trap their small neighbors, unaware of their true nature. Then the lem leader, Old Gray, announces, "The time has come," and the lems leave their warrens and begin a prophesied journey to the Portal where the Chosen are destined to go to a mysterious placed called Tomorrow. Zooks learn of the exodus, and frightened by the danger the lems pose to long-term zook security, begin an all out campaign to destroy them before any escape. Trez, thirteen years old and Chosen, flees with his mother and sister from the only home they have ever known. Racing against time, he and his family cross deserts, forests, and mountains, living on what they can find or steal from their zook enemies. Along the way, they dodge the zooks, their fierce deggs and kaats, and the most awesome danger of all: zook hunter-killer robots. Driven by faith as much as reason, they risk all to fulfill a prophecy they scarcely comprehend in search of a future beyond their imagination.