
Zombies and TB make a new twist on a classic
Free at last! Free at last! This ain't your grandfather's
Huckleberry Finn. It's nineteenth century America and a
mutant strain of tuberculosis is bringing its victims back
from the dead. Sometimes they come back docile, and other
times vicious. The vicious ones are sent back to Hell, but
the docile ones are put to work as servants and laborers. With so many zombies on the market, the slave trade is
nonexistant. The black man is at liberty, and human bondage
is no more. Young Huckleberry Finn has grown up in a world
that shuns the N-word, with its scornful eye set on a new
class of shambling, putrid sub-humans: The Baggers. When his
abusive father comes back into his life, Huck flees down the
river with Bagger Jim, seeking a life of perfect freedom. When the pox mutates once again, causing even the tamest of
baggers to become bloodthirsty monsters, the boy Finn is
forced to question his relationship with his dearest,
deadest friend. In this revised take on history and classic
literature, the modern age is ending before it ever begins. Huckleberry Finn will inherit a world of horror and death,
and he knows the mighty Mississippi might be the only way out...
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