Steven E. Wedel offers four short stories that run the gamut from pure horror to shocking hilarity. In "The Zombie Whisperer," a young woman living in a secure compound with a few fellow survivors of the zombie apocalypse invites in a man who says he can communicate with the walking dead. In "One Night in Benevolence" a man returns to the home where he suffered so much abuse at the hands of his now-dead father, only to find that some things are never...