"The Skull-Faced City" (A sequel to "The Skull-Faced Boy")
- The Living Dead 2, edited by John Joseph Adams, Night Shade Books, Fall 2010

    The pair stood, and marched. The woman glanced back at Park.
    "Eyes front," he ordered.
    She gasped. "Oh my god." To the man she hissed frantically, "He's one of them! The ones that can talk."
    The man turned to stare too, his face full of terror.
    "Eyes front!" Park shouted.
    The man and woman looked away. After a minute, the woman said quietly, "Are you going to eat us?"
    "I don't intend to," Park said.
    "So why do you want us?" she asked.
    "It's not me that wants you," Park answered.
    "Who does then?" the man demanded.
    For a long moment Park said nothing. Then he removed his goggles, exposing dark sockets and two huge eyeballs threaded with veins. He yanked off his ski mask, revealing a gaping nose cavity, bone-white forehead and cheeks -- a horrific skull-visage.
    "You'll see," he said.

    The zombie army of Dustin the skull-faced boy has grown legion, and has constructed a grim necropolis for him to rule over alongside his reluctant bride, Ashley. His followers are urged to carve off their faces, and bounty hunters are sent out from the city to bring back living prisoners, for purposes unknown. Can anyone put an end to Dustin's mad, paranoid reign?