Who would have guessed something he’d penned in jest would turn out to be real and swarm his island retreat? Yet for Ambrose Bierce, renowned nineteenth-century wit and author of The Devil's Dictionary, the joke was on him. If he didn’t want to be digested—and he didn’t, much—he had to stay alive.

His reputed disappearance and death in Mexico in 1914 had been…enlightening, and his animalistic new nature gave Ambrose hope of escaping the undead army. However, there was another to save. On this island was she whom he believed to be his soul mate. And while Joyous Jones promised to give her all for love, he doubted she meant her life. Stranded literally between the devil and the deep blue sea, a past fraught with secrets and a future full of questions, the world’s eminent cynic would have to trust fate. To every night sky finally came the dawn, and from this B horror movie would rise a…DIVINE FANTASY