David’s Snareville tale first showed up in a zombie webzine in 2009. The short story collection, Ghosts of Interstate 80, hit in 2007 and in 2008, Ghosts of the Illinois Canal System earned positive reviews from readers across the internet. In 2006, Youngquist saw his first short story get published and it was during that same year that he was offered a contract to produce a collection of ghost stories. Youngquist began his writing career at Western Illinois University and while he has had success writing for a number of publications outside of the horror genre, his love for the macabre ultimately won out. Through the first two installments in the series, Youngquist has done a fantastic job of sinking his literary claws into the reader’s mind and I will be the first to raise my hand and say I am eagerly awaiting the third and presumably final book. The town is unlike most in the United States, in that it has survived the zombie apocalypse. In a little over a year, David Youngquist has introduced us to a small town in Illinois called Snareville in the form of two books that will ultimately be a part of a trilogy. “I write these kinds of things because I can’t afford psychotherapy.”
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