Rex Cutty refuses to provide any credentials for his “authority” as a supernatural and survivalist writer. “I’m here, aren’t I?” he says. “You guys bury your head in the sand of ‘reality’ all you want to. Meanwhile, guys like me deal with what goes bump in the night. You’ll believe me when you need me bad enough.”

A somewhat shadowy figure with vague ties to agencies like the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, Cutty is an expert on both zombies and vampires. “The rotters are kinda the trailer park trash of the monster world,” he says. “Them you can deal with. But vampires? They’re social climbing, bloodsucking elitists. All about the politics with them.”

Packing his books with useful survival information and a hearty dose of self-deprecating and sarcastic humor, Cutty says living through anything is about attitude and a decent sense of humor. “Man, you stop laughing? You’re gonna start dying. Simple as that.”
He readily admits that his survival tactics would work in a Hurricane Katrina situation as well as a full-on monster apocalypse, adding sagely, “And I don’t know about you, but I’d a hell of a lot rather deal with zombies than those FEMA guys.”