Rusty Fischer

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  • Bibliography:
    132 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 2001
  • Latest Book:
    September 2019
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Full Series List in Order

A Living Dead Love Story

1 - Zombies Don't Cry (May-2011)
2 - Vamplayers (Dec-2011)
3 - Zombies Don't Forgive (Apr-2013)

Reanimated Readz

1 - Zombie Interrupted (Feb-2012)
2 - Project Z (Apr-2012)
3 - Private EyeZ (May-2012)
4 - The Zombie Vote (Jun-2012)
5 - My Brother, My Zombie (Jul-2012)

Multi-Author Series List

Weekend Getaways

144 - Merry Mocha (Nov-2014)

Book List in Order: 132 titles

  • The 25 Stories of Christmas

    Celebrate Christmas all December long with this treasury of new holiday classics! A wonderful way to encourage family togetherness at the holidays, this value-packed volume contains 25 heartwarming stories that both celebrate and illuminate the holid...

  • Buddy Film

    Welcome to Flicks Cinemas. Meet Alex Morgan, your assistant manager for the evening. He is a widower, 30 (okay, forty) pounds overweight, and trying desperately to find some bigger meaning in a life that hasnt quite turned out like he planned. Meet y...

  • Freedom To Freelance

  • Weapons of the West

  • Project Angel Tree

    CHURCH NEEDS KIDS IN NEED!Grace Pastermark has been sad for a long, long time. Three months, to be exact, ever since she lost her newborn son two days after delivery. Now Grace spends her days looking for workunsuccessfullyand gobbling up every piece...

  • Merry Christmas, Mrs. President:

  • Merry Christmas, Mrs. President: Or How I Spent My Winter Break in 250 Pages or Less

    BAH HUMBUG:

    STUDENT SUSPENDED OVER CHRISTMAS CHEER!

    Kennedy Middle School student Megan Walker was suspended yesterday, the first day of school for the new academic year. Her offense? You might think it was vandalism, tard...

  • Vampires Drool! Zombies Rule!

  • Zombies Don't Celebrate



  • Christmas Broken

    All Rio wants to do over Christmas break is forget about the boy who got her sent to boarding school in the first place. So what's a girl to do when he winds up working at her favorite bookstore-slash-cafe on Christmas Eve?This 5,590-word short story...

  • The Christmas Cowboy

  • Holiday On Hold

  • Spin Cycle

    All Dana Devlin wanted was to get the stain out of her favorite shirt. Was it her fault the only other guy in the Laundromat on Christmas Eve just happens to be the most eligible bachelor in all of Snowflake, South Carolina?This 5,880-word short stor...

  • Zombies Don't Kiss & Tell

  • Make Way for Mrs. Claus

    Lily McClain is a confirmed SantaPhobic, which is why she's so ticked off that her regular Santa, Blake, has backed out for the night. But when she steps into Santa's red suit, she becomes an inspiration for hundreds of little girls, just in time for...

  • Special Delivery

    Chelsea Darwin is looking forward to a girls' only holiday with her assistant, Myra, when a mysterious stranger calls her catering company just before midnight, ordering the last-minute New Year's Eve special. Who Chelsea delivers to that night will ...

  • Zombies Don't Cry

    A Living Dead Love Story - 1

    In the sleepy small town of Barracuda Bay, Maddy Swift leads the life of a fairly typical teenager, but while attending a party one night, Maddy is struck by lightning and awakens to realize she has been reanimated and turned into a zombie. While bec...

  • Zombies Don't Sleep

    One sheep, two sheep, three sheep, four... aaarrrggghhh!!! In Zombies Don't Sleep, a high school senior with insomnia discovers that there's a zombie hanging out at her local Laundromat. She also finds out that he's way cooler than the mere mortals a...

  • Zombies Don't Study



  • Ushers, Inc.

  • Zombies Don't Swim

    Viv is just looking to enjoy the last few days of spring break. Hang with her best friend, Lavinia, and, perhaps, reunite with her skeevy, cheating, but drop dead sexy ex-boyfriend, Scott. But a chance encounter with her undead pool boy, Flynn, has h...

  • A Long Winter's Fright

  • Now Showing in Snowflake

  • Once Upon a Christmas

  • The Vampire's Valentine

  • Vampire Thanksgiving

  • A Very Vampire Holiday

  • Blue for Christmas

  • Our Christmas Wedding



  • A Simple Christmas Gift

    In Simple Gifts, a young couple must rediscover what the spirit of the season really means when they leave behind their fancy oceanfront condo for much humbler digs on Christmas Eve.This 5,870-word short story is 37 pages long....

  • Snowfall

    In 'Snowfall,' what starts out as a routine catering job turns into a magical night as two lost souls try to keep warm during the year's first big snowfall.This 4,220-word short story is 25 pages long....

  • The Werewolf's Halloween Costume

  • Panty Raid at Zombie High

  • Vamplayers

    A Living Dead Love Story - 2

    At the Afterlife Academy of Exceptionally Dark Arts, Lily Fielding and her classmates Alice and Cara begin their latest assignment: they're to simply spot the Vamplayer--part vampire, part player--identify the popular girl he's set his sights on, and...

  • Double Feature of the Living Dead

    If you’ve ever settled in for a cheesy, B-movie, double creature feature with a hot bag of popcorn and a nice, cold soda, then you know what’s in store in Double Feature of the Living Dead. Together " and in print " for the first time ever, t...

  • Zombie Interrupted

    Reanimated Readz - 1

  • Zombie, Interrupted

    As a zombie, Reggie is used to people asking questions. But when his ex-girlfriend Julia decides to play reporter and record his “confession,” Reggie decides to turn her exposé into a true crime story -- with Julia at his side!~Excerpt~“Reggie...

  • My Big, Fat, Hairy Werewolf Intervention - A Love Story with Fur

  • Project Z

    Reanimated Readz - 2



  • Private EyeZ

    Reanimated Readz - 3

  • The Zombie Vote

    Reanimated Readz - 4

  • My Brother, My Zombie

    Reanimated Readz - 5

  • A Town Called Snowflake

    olly Swift had a choice to make that fateful Christmas Eve: break her boyfriend’s heart or become a famous country music star. She chose stardom and, for awhile, all was a picture book fairy tale for Molly. She cut her debut album, made the rounds ...

  • Detention of the Living Dead

  • Happy Halloween, Little Zombie

  • The Zombie Who Ate Too Much Candy Corn

  • The Girl Who Could Talk to Zombies

    Grace Chalmers can talk to zombies. Now, if she could only make them listen!Some girls talk to their BFFs. Some girls talk to their boyfriends. Grace Chalmers talks to zombies. They even talk back! Thanks to her newfound talent, Grace is the key to s...

  • Zombies Don't Write Valentines

    Once upon a time, Sarah and Brody dated. Now he's one of the living dead, and can't remember her name. Or... can he? When Brody asks Sarah to help him make a Valentine's Day card, she'll find out whether or not zombies can still remember what to do o...

  • If You Take a Zombie to the Prom



  • My Big, Fat, Undead Zombie Crush

  • My Teacher Was a Zombie! A Living Dead Poem

  • Night of the Living FRED! A Living Dead Poem

  • The Silent Type

  • A Very YA Holiday

  • What Rhymes With BRAIN?!? 13 YA Poems of the Living Dead

  • The Zombie's Night Before Halloween

  • Zombies Don't Pucker

    When two hapless bloggers make the scoop of the year -- that zombies can actually talk!!! -- they get the surprise of their lives: being fed to the zombie to cover up the evidence! But Zed is one zombie who'd rather let the bloggers go to tell their ...

  • Afterlife Academy

  • The Night Ranger

  • Zombies Don't Forgive

    A Living Dead Love Story - 3

    Following Barracuda Bay’s homecoming cum zombie Armageddon, fellow zombies Maddy, Dane, and Stamp have fled to Orlando where they work at a theme park, hiding in plain sight at their jobs in the Great Movie Monster Makeover show. The three spend mo...

  • Careful Hearts

    Reggie Fontaine isn’t exactly looking forward to his shift at the Suds ‘N Slice Pizza Parlor. That is until he meets Tori, who owns the tattoo parlor next door. What starts as a boring shift blossoms into something unexpected and magical,...

  • The Ghost in the Aisle Seat

  • The Werewolf On Christmas

  • Zombie Eve

    It’s Christmas Eve and the zombie known as “Scout” is doing her job: scouting out freshly dug graves for the rest of her zombie pals. But when she comes across a young kid guarding the nearest graveyard, the two strike up an unlikel...

  • Zombie Thanksgiving

    It’s Thanksgiving and all Cassie wants to do is sit in her dorm room eating cheesy poofs and binge watching a Horror High marathon on HitFlix. That’s when Rex, one of the members of the Zombie Job Corps, shows up, wanting to clean her floor. With...

  • Zombies Don't Dance

    The last thing Rex ever wanted to do was break Cara’s heart. That’s why he’s canceling prom… at the last minute. But will Cara ever understand that, after being a zombie longer than he’d care to remember, Rex is simply t...

  • Zombies Don't Need Bodyguards

    Let’s face it: Rex Limburger, Jr. is a wimp. He knows it, the whole world knows it, especially the bullies. But today Rex stops being a wimp. Because today he’s brought… a bodyguard. A zombie bodyguard. And nothing will ever be the ...

  • The Aftermath

    Michelle has just escaped the zombie infestation at her high school. That’s the good news. The bad news is she has to stick around and be debriefed by every department of every branch of the US government. Oh, and the local reporters, of course...

  • Born Lucky

  • A Halloween Heart

    Gemma Mathers is a tour guide at Frightening Footsteps, a Ghost Walk company in Snowflake, South Carolina. It's Halloween and when only one guest shows for the tour, Gemma can hardly believe her good fortune at being stuck with handsome, young Greg S...

  • Seasons in Snowflake

  • Sleepless in Snowflake

    It's Molly's first Christmas without her husband, which might explain why she's shown up at her mother's nursing home, desperate for a visit. When a chef busy preparing Christmas brunch overhears and invites her into his kitchen, the two make Christm...

  • A Toast for Thanksgiving

    It's Thanksgiving night and Haley Sylvester is working behind the bar at the Sips N Snowflake Bar & Grille when Grady Cox, the one that got away, saunters in. As the two stroll down memory lane, Haley hopes the night will find them in each other's ar...

  • The Vampire in the Vampire Costume

    Grace has been watching the cute guy in the vampire costume long enough to know he isn’t just role playing: dude’s the real thing. So what do the only zombie and the only vampire – both sworn enemies – do in a town like Nights...

  • Love, Werewolf

  • Dumping Dexter

  • Reanimation Reform School

    Alex Mortimer Witherspoon wants to be is a writer. But when she is thrown from a fair ride and tossed into electric cables, Alex finds herself reanimated; one of the Living Dead. She wakes up in a place called Reanimation Reform School, designed to h...

  • Elevator Music

    Darby is heading home on New Year's Eve when she gets stuck in the elevator with a handsome stranger. But just when their last minute love story is heating up, the elevator starts and they part ways forever. Or will a New Year's miracle bring them ba...

  • Home for Christmas

    It’s Christmas Eve but Tanner doesn’t know it yet. Nor does her buddy, Scrim. That’s because they’re both zombies; with no memories. Of anything. At all. Not of their past lives. Not of who they are… or were. Not even of...

  • Homecoming

  • Zombie Next Year

    The Winter Wonderland Dance was supposed to be a chance to get outside after the zombie outbreaks that had been plaguing the Carolinas all holiday season. But the heavy guards and all the adult supervision in the world couldn’t stop the Great N...

  • Candy Hearts

    Cara Styles is happy to be working at Snowflakes 'N Scones on Valentine's Day. At least it keeps her busy while she's trying to get over her cheating, no-good, two-timing ex-boyfriend. It doesn't hurt that her young coworker, Rory Fox, is doing every...

  • Greetings from Snowflake

    Greetings from Snowflake, where for one true Believer, it really IS Christmas every day! Jazz Noel is a Christmas “nut.” From her candy cane panties to her year-round Christmas tree, she’s perpetually stuck in December. She even runs the Chris...

  • Silent Night

    Grace Palmer’s boyfriend, Grady, died suddenly one year ago. But that’s okay, because tonight it’s Christmas Eve, and he’s promised to visit Grace at the Spin Cycle Laundromat… one way or the other.This 4,731-word short ...

  • The 12 Stories of Snowflake

    Happy Holidays from Snowflake! Welcome to Snowflake, South Carolina, where it’s Christmas all year long. And now, for the first time ever, enjoy these twelve delightful tales of warm, wintry romance, finally collected in a single volume. Happy Holi...

  • Monster Party

    Welcome to the Monster Party, pal! Here you’ll find a YA paranormal short story collection featuring all your favorite holidays: From Valentine’s Day to Halloween, from St. Patrick’s Day to New Year’s Eve. And all your favorite monsters are h...

  • Pinch Me

    Grace Phelps is working her way through graduate school at the local Minute Mart when a handsome undergrad comes racing in at midnight looking for cat food. And again the next night, and the next. When she decides to do a little snooping, Grace will ...

  • Upon Halloween

    Upon Halloween What could be better than a simple Halloween poem? Four lines, one stanza, autumn fun, fall leaves, candy corn, trick or treat, bats and witches and ghostly things? How about… two poems? Three? Four? Fourteen? How about 31 creepy, cr...

  • Zombies Don't Read

    What could be better than a short story collection containing five YA zombie tales? What could be more awesome than 10 creepy stories of the living dead? What could be cooler than 15 spooky tales of leg shuffling walkers? Would 20 stories be cooler? ...

  • Creeperz

  • Kid Pumpkin

  • Little Birds

  • The Third of July

    Milo Regis is the newest assistant manager at Buccaneer Bob's Raw Bar, so it's his job to interview the nervous applicant who's so clearly desperate for a job. But when it's also clear that Elliot Avery just isn't right for the open waitress job, Mil...

  • Zombies Don't Surrender

    As the final volume in the series opens, Maddy, Dane, and Stamp are still together, though barely, nestled safely inside the walls of Sentinel City, a stronghold designed to keep Zerkers out--and zombies in. Maddy trains night and day, hoping to j...

  • Christmas Music

    Grace Weatherly is fresh out of rehab and looking to start her life over. So when the power goes out on Christmas Eve, she can't help but lose her cool. But as the residents of her dumpy apartment complex come together in the dark, she finds out the ...

  • Elf Wanted

    All Toby Wyatt wants is a job bussing tables at Holly Days Diner. What he doesn’t expect is how hard it will be to earn his “candy cane” pin at the popular year-round Christmas restaurant. But he gets a little help from an unexpecte...

  • Scary Movies

    It’s Halloween and Haley Tyson is working late at her father’s video store, Rewind. When her last customer turns out to be Josh Ridgeway, high school dweeb turned college freshman hunk, she can’t believe her luck. That is, until Jos...

  • Skipping Thanksgiving

  • Vampire Book of the Month Club

    At the age of seventeen, Nora Falcon is already a best-selling author of vampire lit, with fans lining up around the block to read the next installment of her Better off Bled series. So it might seem like she's something special. But at the Nightshad...

  • Christmas Carols

    Alex Baker has been waiting for Rafe Sanchez to ask her out ever since she started working at Holly Day’s Diner, where Rafe plays guitar five nights a week. But when he finally invites her to spend Christmas Eve with her, a nursing home is not ...

  • Christmas Eve

    Cole Rainey’s new client, Eve Macy, wants the impossible: a completely furnished, two-bedroom apartment, on the third floor in one of Noel, North Carolina’s most popular apartment complexes… before Christmas Eve. With only a few day...

  • Conversation Hearts

    Benjy Simmons is a freshman in college but has never had a Valentine before. His neighbor, Todd Phelps, decides to do something about that. In the process, both discover what it means to truly celebrate Valentine's Day… in very different ways....

  • The Elf in Summer

  • Love and Other Spells: Three Romantic Halloween Stories

  • Meet Me At Midnight

    It's New Year's Eve and Tara Fields is back in Frostbite, Florida, doing a story on the town's most famous surfers. So is Reggie South, who just happens to run Hang Ten Tours, taking tourists on a star tour of famous surfer homes. On a private tour, ...

  • My Lucky Day

    Brent Coffee hasn’t seen his former classmate, Molly Sinclair, in nearly a decade, but all that changes when he shows up to fix her Wi-fi connection on St. Patrick’s Day. After a quick fix, Brent asks Molly to join him at a local horror f...

  • The Right Vampire

    When Haley Chambers mistakes a handsome stranger in a Dracula costume for her blind date, she thinks she's died and gone to matchmaker heaven! That is until her friend points out her real blind date – half as handsome but just as Dracula –...

  • Seasons Change

    Tyler Pressley has just lost her marketing job… on Thanksgiving, no less. When Cliff, the owner of the failing diner next door, offers her a free dinner, she accepts… neither of them expecting how grateful they'll be for what happens next...

  • A Thanksgiving Heart

  • Three of Hearts

  • A Brief Intermission

    As the theaters at Flickers Cinemas empty and the whole town prepares to watch the 4th of July fireworks, Chance Prescott interrupts the horror flick in Theater 4 to surprise the movie's only patron with a brief intermission, including a rooftop view...

  • Midnight Kiss

  • King Toot: 101 Revolting Rhymes for Little Monsters

  • Halloweeny Screamy! 101 Haunting Rhymes

  • A Living Dead Love Story Series

    Maddy Swift is just a normal high school girl -- until she’s struck by lighting and reanimated as a zombie. Great. Like Barracuda Bay High wasn’t cold-blooded enough already! Navigating the perils of cliques and hot guys was bad enough. Now Maddy...

  • Pumpkin Power

  • Merry Mocha

    Weekend Getaways - 144

  • Store Hours

    The last thing Lea Sommers expects on Christmas Eve is to run into Gil Cramer, the "one who got away." But that's exactly what happens when she finds that Gil has come back to Noel, North Carolina, to work at the local Books 'n' Beans Caf?.Lea's stuc...

  • February the 13th

    Nina Miller always has a Valentine. Except this year. Before she leaves her ex-husband’s house for good, Nina decides to host one final event -- an anti-Valentine’s party for her similarly single besties. Graphic designer Chad Meager arrives w...

  • Reanimated Readz

    Just when you thought it was safe to read again…the zombies are back! And in greater number too!In Reanimated Readz, you’ll find five young adult zombie tales from Rusty Fischer’s popular “Reanimated Readz” series of living dead short stori...

  • Mister Perfect

    Dollar Jungle isn’t Mia Crawford’s idea of the perfect job. Then again, the cute older guy who comes in every night to hunt around for just the right Halloween decorations makes things a little easier. When Mia realizes her “mystery...

  • Pub Crawl

    New to Snowflake, Cara Caruthers resorts to going on a blind date to find a “plus one” for her company sponsored pub crawl on St. Patrick’s Day. Will Tyler Hampton be a dud? Or will Cara finally be lucky in love?...

  • Throwing Shade

    The last thing Cara Halpern expected to do at the office Christmas party was fall in love. But that’s exactly what happens when she goes looking for a hiding space after her boyfriend humiliates her and finds a lovelorn admirer in the mood to c...

  • Christmas in Snowflake

    Molly Swift had a choice to make that fateful Christmas Eve: break her boyfriend’s heart or become a famous country music star. She chose stardom and, for awhile, all was a picture book fairy tale for Molly. She cut her debut album, made the rounds...

  • Trick or Treat

    A Beautiful Mess is one of the most popular DIY style blogs in the world, with more than 1 million readers. Co-creators (and sisters) Emma Chapman and Elsie Larson share their unique and approachable diet with fans and healthy eaters in this, their f...

  • The Vampire Who Lost His Cape

    Chester is busily stitching a vampire cape for his Halloween costume when a real vampire arrives. The vampire has lost his cape, and a vampire without a cape is hardly a vampire at all! He'd like to borrow Chester's cape, but Chester needs it for tri...

  • Frankly Frankie

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  • Halloweeny Screamy! 101 Haunting Rhymes for Little Monsters

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  • Little Monster, Big Rhymes

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  • Mummies Mumble

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  • Werewolves Wobble

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  • Witches Wacky

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Rusty Fischer has published 132 books.

Rusty Fischer does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Vampire Who Lost His Cape, was published in September 2019.

The first book by Rusty Fischer, The 25 Stories of Christmas, was published in May 2001.

Yes. Rusty Fischer has 2 series.
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