Author’s Note:
The Estuary is a novel of claustrophobic terror that happens to have flesh eating zombies in it. I love zombie novels and films but one thing that was getting too played out, in my opinion, is the number and destructive ability of the guns that everyone seemed to be able to get their hands on. In ‘Night of the Living Dead’ there were very few weapons and the atmosphere was one of relentless terror as the zombies kept crashing against the door. I wanted to capture that atmosphere but in a bigger setting so I set it in Ireland.
We don’t have guns in Ireland, oh sure we have some elite armed police, but you just don’t have access to weaponry. I thought it would be interesting to see how, or even if, people could survive an outbreak of such creatures with no bazookas and an endless supply of bullets.
I happened to visit some friends in a small town in Waterford for the weekend and the town set off my imagination. The town is beautiful but it is surrounded by mountains on three sides and the sea on the other so this was perfect to give that hemmed-in feeling. All I needed was a reason for the outbreak.
The estuary in the town is gorgeous and I just had to include it somehow. The Keep isn’t there unfortunately, but it did supply that out-of-reach sanctuary I was looking for. The PH science in the book is real and gave me a credible reason for the affliction. Again, I wanted to stay away from comet trails and the like. As my wife says the book is more a thriller than horror, but it will get your heart beating faster and that is exactly what I wanted....
The Estuary is a novel of claustrophobic terror that happens to have flesh eating zombies in it. I love zombie novels and films but one thing that was getting too played out, in my opinion, is the number and destructive ability of the guns that everyone seemed to be able to get their hands on. In ‘Night of the Living Dead’ there were very few weapons and the atmosphere was one of relentless terror as the zombies kept crashing against the door. I wanted to capture that atmosphere but in a bigger setting so I set it in Ireland.
We don’t have guns in Ireland, oh sure we have some elite armed police, but you just don’t have access to weaponry. I thought it would be interesting to see how, or even if, people could survive an outbreak of such creatures with no bazookas and an endless supply of bullets.
I happened to visit some friends in a small town in Waterford for the weekend and the town set off my imagination. The town is beautiful but it is surrounded by mountains on three sides and the sea on the other so this was perfect to give that hemmed-
" The scares here are realistic and human, so to me the feeling of terror is more prolonged never wavering till the last page. The Estuary is a zombie novel but it's not just for zombie fans."
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