Two Coscom zombie mash-ups resell to Gallery

Agent Evan Gregory at the Ethan Ellenberg Literary Agency sold reprint rights to two new zombie novels for original publisher Coscom Entertainment. Jaime Costas at Simon & Schuster’s imprint Gallery bought rights to both The War of the Worlds, Plus Blood, Guts, and Zombies by H.G. Wells and Eric S. Brown, and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Zombie Jim by Mark Twain and W. Bill Czolgosz. The Twain volume was first published last July; the Wells book was only released last week.
Small press Coscom was founded in 2004, and two years ago narrowed its focus to superhero books, comics and monster-themed fiction. They offer descriptions of the books, below:


Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Zombie Jim by Mark Twain and W. Bill Czolgosz
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 nonexistent. 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 .


The War of the Worlds, Plus Blood, Guts, and Zombies by H.G. Wells and Eric S. Brown
The invasion begins… and the dead start to rise.
There’s panic in the streets of London as invaders from Mars wreak havoc on the living, slaying the populace with Heat-Rays and poisonous clouds of black smoke. Humanity struggles to survive against technology far beyond its own, meeting fear and death at every turn.
But that’s not the only struggle mankind must face. The dead are rising from their graves with an insatiable hunger for human flesh. Friends, neighbours and loved ones lost to the war of the worlds are now the enemy and the Earth is forever changed.
It’s kill or be killed, if you want to survive, otherwise you might become one of the walking dead yourself.