Zombie Novels and Books To Devour
When you're tired of reading your Shakespeare, Tolstoy, and Mark Twain, it's time to reach for a good 'ole-fashioned Zombie Book. One of the more recent literary movements found writers weaving tales of the undead. 1990 saw the real birth of zombie novels with the release of Book of the Dead.
Lesser-known and major writers alike have written stories about our favorite decomposing friends, including David Wellington's 2004 contribution Monster Island, which gave way to two sequels - Monster Nation, and Monster Planet. These were no ordinary zombies, either, as supernatural forces seem to come into play as well. Even Stephen King did his part to satisfy our need for fine zombie literature - in 2006 he released Cell, a zombie book of sorts involving electromagnetic pulses via cellphones, turning their owners into zombie-like maniacs.
Many recent zombie novels tend to have a government/military twist to them (Plague of the Dead, Thunder and Ashes, Day By Day Armageddon).
The zombie video game series Resident Evil also spawned its own series of zombie novels (Resident Evil: Apocalypse, Code Veronica, Genesis, among others). Other notable zombie books, albeit on the stranger side, are The Zen of Zombie (a self-help book of sorts) and Zombie Haiku (a series of haiku's written by a human slowly decomposing into the undead).
Recommended Zombie Books
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In 2003 Max Brooks released The Zombie Survival Guide, depicting the idea of a potential zombie attack and how to survive it. The book quickly became a fan-favorite, and is held highly by zombie purists. The zombie book breaks down into sections such as Myths and Realities, Weapons and Combat Techniques, On the Defense, On the Run and more.
Max Brooks followed up his hit in 2006 with World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War. A movie based on the zombie book is currently in production starring Brad Pitt. |
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