A Lovecraftian style tale of the horrors that surround the simple draining of a park pond and the modern day research that leads back to the Civil War and the discovery of an undead zone.

"Edward Hawthorne had no premonition of the first disturbing and later horrifying consequences that would result from his joining the Friends of Pilley Park Garden Society." Thus begins "The Undead Zone" a tale H.P. Lovecraft fans will dip into and not emerge until they have learned why neighbors around Pilley park start acting strange, murderous and suicidal when the park's garden pond is drained for repairs and a city codes enforcement officer finds a document from the past that tells of the extraordinary discovery made by Pilley during a Civil War battle on the park's site.

Randy Attwood grew up on the grounds of Larned State Hospital where is father worked as the dentist for that mental hospital. He attended the University of Kansas during the tumultuous 1960s. The first half of his adult career was in newspaper journalism where he won numerous writing awards and was twice honored with the investigative reporting award by the KU's William Allen White School of Journalism. The second half of his career was as Director of University Relations for The University of Kansas Medical Center before he transitioned to retirement as the media relations officer for The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City. He lives in Kansas City where he is busy promoting his fiction and creating new works.