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Joe McKinney is a homicide detective for the San
Antonio Police Department. Joe McKinney has a Master's Degree in English Literature
from The University of Texas at San Antonio. Before joining the Homicide Division as a detective, Joe McKinney worked on the
San Antonio Police Department's Critical Incident Management Team, where he received training in dealing with a variety of
natural and manmade disasters, such as floods, fires, and train wrecks, and that training figures prominently in his fiction.
Joe McKinney is the author of Dead City
and a coauthor of The Sound of Horror.
According to the book description of Dead City, “Battered by five cataclysmic hurricanes in three
weeks, the Texas Gulf Coast and half of the Lone Star State is reeling from the worst devastation in history. Thousands are
dead and dying--but the worst is only beginning. Amid the wreckage, something unimaginable is happening: a deadly virus has
broken out, returning the dead to life – with an insatiable hunger for human flesh.”
According to the book description of
The Sound of Horror, “What does horror sound like? Well, probably a lot like this. Joe McKinney
(author of Dead City) brings us "Mr. Creator." John Edward Lawson (The Last Burn in Hell) brings us "Tyranny
of the Beat." Joseph McGee (In The Wake of the Night) brings us "Room 409." Eric Enck (author of Devotion)
brings us "Rock and Roll is Dead." Louise Bohmer (Black Act) brings us "Queen of Samhain." Matt Staggs
brings us "That Damned Box." John Dimes (Intracations) brings us "They Are Bound...Not Frozen." Benjamin
Bussey brings us "Grave Robber.”
Joe McKinney said of the short story,
The Gunner's Love Song, it “is a tale of a stuttering young simpleton whose love for a
doomed woman cannot be contained by her unmarked pauper's grave in a little East Texas peach orchard. Told from the perspective
of the young man's older, world-weary cousin, “The Gunner's Love Song” is as much a tale of lost innocence
as it is a creepy tale of things that just won't stay buried.”
Joe McKinney said of the short story
The Sixth Mission, it “is a tale of a five friends who found something terrible under a deserted
hotel back in 1965. Four decades later, the friends reunite for a funeral, only to discover that the evil they thought they
had buried has returned.”
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