Meet The Horrors (And Don’t Call Them Zombies!!)

There are a number of different types of monsters that you will have to deal with when playing The Plum Island Horror. While none of them are very pleasant, some are far worse than others. So I felt it would be worthwhile to do a short treatise on the “Horrors” that you and your friends will be fighting. And by the way, be aware that the term “zombies” is never used in the game’s literature. Calling the abominations that attacked Plum Island “zombies” is an insult to them and their reputations. In fact, there was an unsubstantiated report that we uncovered which claimed that one researcher referred to a captured Horror as a “Zed”. Supposedly the Horror overheard this remark and became so infuriated that it tore out of its cage and consumed the researcher in one gulp. The “Horrors” of Plum Island are more vicious, faster and smarter than any of those ineffectual Romero monster wannabes. Sure, they’ve benefited from great publicity and their marketing department is pretty sharp. But don’t let that superficial nonsense fool you! The Horrors of Plum Island were a real threat to humankind, not like those slow-moving, groaning zombie half-wits that you see in all those popular movies and TV series. The Horrors come in two distinct and disgusting flavors … a Murder of Horrors and Mutations.

The Plum Island Horror is a cooperative game for one to four players who are … let’s be honest here … predominantly masochists who have nothing better to do with their free time but get pummeled by a boardgame. Just chalk it up as another wasted night of being embarrassed by some plastic dice and cardboard counters. But if you nonetheless insist on playing this game, you can take comfort in the knowledge that it is actually an accurate simulation of one of the most notorious and covered-up events in U.S. history.

Thanks to the intrepid work of the somewhat-famous journalist, private investigator and former Battle Bots contestant David “Sherlock” Spangler, this horrific story has finally been brought to light. David is most famously known (in some conspiracy and cryptozoology circles anyway) for his bestselling books “Squatching For Dummies” and “Ancient Aliens: Fact or … Fact?”. But it was his tell-all tome “Beware the Shade: Where Horrors Hide in the Daylight” that brought this event to my attention. The story was just too good to pass up and I assembled my team of developers, headed by Ken Kuhn and Fred Manzo, to begin collecting first-hand interviews from survivors of the disaster who were made known to us through accessing documents made available by Mr. Spangler and the Freedom of Information Act. Whatever stories and details we could not verify, well, we just filled in the blanks as best we could (using our highly intellectual and analytical talents). Therefore, I think I am quite justified in saying that this is the most historically accurate and well-researched simulation of a historical event that you will find anywhere in GMT’s game catalog. Obviously.