The night when the five Bennet sisters successfully defended a party where Mr.Charles Bingley was also in attendance was a result of several years of training in the art of killing zombies. This training and its first applications are the focus of Steve Hockensmith’s book “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls”. Set…
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The world has turned upside down. The epidemic that transformed living human beings into undead zombies had a more devastating impact on countries that depended heavily on advanced technologies. When the power plants, communications systems, and transport facilities stopped working, so did the entire country. The United States, Europe, Japan, and the other advanced civilizations…
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A new strain of virus arose naturally in the remote regions of Africa which turned out to be far worse than Ebolavirus, SARS coronavirus, and the influenza A virus combined. People infected with the virus, eventually named the Morningstar Strain, suffered from high fever and delirium leading to hallucinations, delusions, incoherent speech, and violent behavior….
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Another secret government project is botched. Toxic chemicals are released into the air over Witcham, a city in northern Wisconsin. By sheer misfortune, the discharge of the yellow-green gas coincided with torrential rains that have been battering the city for three days. The rains pouring on the city were thus contaminated leading to horrendous results….
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In an attempt to understand black holes, the scientist Baker and his assistants were conducting experiments with a particle accelerator –a device that propels charged particles to extremely high speeds using electromagnetic fields and containing them in well-defined beams. This would help them understand the nature of that area in space where nothing, including light,…
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A lot of books set their zombie stories in an urban environment, where there are malls, pubs, schools, museums, apartments, and offices. Rise and Walk by Gregory Solis is different in that the setting of the protagonists’ experience with the undead is in the mountains.
The story begins when the students of a geology course…
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The rock band Exploding Heads had just been practicing in their jam room, a converted wooden shed in the backyard of Mark and Scott Walker’s parents’ house. Mark is the lead singer while his brother Scott is the drummer. As they usually do, they had a few beers after their practice and soon, they got…
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A number of reviewers have called Kim Paffenroth’s “Dying to Live: A Novel of Life among the Undead” a thinking man’s zombie book, or even a philosopher’s zombie novel. This isn’t really surprising considering that the author holds a degree of Master of Sacred Theology (STM) from Harvard School of Divinity. He also has a…
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In a yet another departure from the Romero zombies, the undead in “Dead America: A Zombie Novel” are not monsters or ghouls who shamble around looking for human brains to eat. On the contrary, they are just like the living, talking, walking, and even working. The only difference is that they were once dead, but…
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Presented in the form of a journal, the book is a first person account of the writer’s experience of the outbreak of a virus in China that turned infected persons into mindless, flesh-eating, zombies. The infection eventually spread all over the world threatening to end civilization and the established social order.
The writer, unnamed in…
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