List of zombie novels
Appearance
This is a list of zombie related novels that are notable themselves or by notable authors.
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Novels and anthologies
Name | Author | Year | Description |
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Breathers: A Zombie's Lament | Browne, S. G. | 2009 | A dark, comedic take on zombies told from the point of view of a recently reanimated corpse. |
Cell | King, Stephen | 2006 | Anyone talking on a cell phone after a particular event becomes an aggressive, bloodthirsty zombie.[1] |
City of the Dead | Keene, Brian | 2005 | This is the official follow up to The Rising. Demons possess the bodies of the dead, including animals. One man attempts to reach his son. |
Day By Day Armageddon | Bourne, J.L. | 2009 | Zombie apocalypse as reported by an US Naval Aviator in his daily journal. |
Day By Day Armageddon: Beyond Exile | Bourne, J.L. | 2010 | Sequel to Day By Day Armageddon. Zombie apocalypse as reported by an US Naval Aviator in his daily journal. |
The Dead | Rogers, Mark E. | 1989 | When God turns His back on the world and the Rapture takes the righteous to Heaven, those left behind face sadistic, flesh-hungry demons clothed in the bodies of the deceased. |
Dead Sea | Keene, Brian | 2007 | A zombie apocalypse starts with undead rats emerging from Baltimore's sewers. |
The Dead-Tossed Waves | Ryan, Carrie | 2010 | Teen book. Sequel to The Forest of Hands and Teeth. |
Death Troopers | Schreiber, Joe | 2009 | An non-canon story in the Star Wars universe about Han Solo encountering a derelict ship filled with zombie Imperial Stormtroopers. |
The Dying Times | Kittrell, Brian | 2010 | After the entire U.S. east coast, NATO military bases in Europe, and a few other places are hit with biological weapons via a missile attack, the dead rise to seek out living flesh. The book focuses primarily on a 13-year-old girl, Nadene Schafer, her mother, Pamela Schafer, and the other survivors they meet during the crisis. Book #1 of The Survivor Chronicles. |
Eve of the Dead | Tucker, Nathan | 2007 | When the dead begin to rise, a small group of survivors seek refuge in a local Walmart. |
The Enemy | Higson, Charlie | 2009 | A young adult novel. Surviving youngsters battle adults who have become zombies. |
Feed | Grant, Mira | 2010 | News reporters blogging in a world that survives a zombie apocalypse. |
Forest of Hands and Teeth | Ryan, Carrie | 2009 | Teen book. In a village generations after the zombie apocalypse a 16-year-old struggles with her town's religious rules until the village walls are breached and she is forced to flee into the woods.[2] |
Generation Dead | Waters, Daniel | 2008 | Teen book. In the present day, U.S. teens are randomly rising from the dead, and the country is in turmoil over the question of zombie civil rights. |
Handling the Undead | Lindqvist, John Ajvide | 2005 | During a massive heatwave the unexplained resurrection of thousands of recently deceased people begins in Stockholm, Sweden. David, whose wife has recently died, has gone to the morgue to identify remains of his lost love only to find that she has begun to move. It's terrifying to David, but gives him a strange kind of hope. |
Illuminatus! | Shea, Robert and Wilson, Robert Anton | 1976 | In the third volume, Leviathan, the book opens with the world's greatest-ever rock festival on the shores of Lake Totenkopf in Bavaria. Unknown to all except the heroes and the villains, Lake Totenkopf plays host to an entire division of the Waffen SS whose dead bodies were interred on an underwater plateau in the lake supported by a "biomystical field" to maintain bodily integrity. At the climax of the festival, they will return to life as zombies, surface, and slaughter all 250,000 hippies at the festival to boost their power. |
Kiss of Life | Waters, Daniel | 2009 | Teen book. Sequel to Generation Dead. |
Monster Island | Wellington, David | 2006 | In New York City, the dead walk the streets. From the other side of the planet, a small but heavily armed group of schoolgirls-turned-soldiers comes in search of desperately needed medicine, with a former UN weapons inspector as their local guide. |
Monster Nation | Wellington, David | 2006 | A prequel to Monster Island where a sentient zombie tries to cure herself. |
Monster Planet | Wellington, David | 2007 | Sentient zombies are intent on taking over the world killing the living with a nuclear weapon. |
Night of the Nazi Zombies | Thomas, Michael G. | 2010 | ‘Night of the Living Dead’ meets ‘Saving Private Ryan’ in a bloodthirsty World War II night of terror. In the early hours of D-Day, Sergeant Smith and his unit of elite airborne infantry arrive in occupied France. Their mission is to capture a series of important bridges deep behind enemy lines. It soon becomes apparent that the Germans have a terrifying secret weapon, one that could drive the allies back into the sea! |
On Stranger Tides | Tim Powers | 1988 | Puppeteer John Chandagnac, who was sailing to Jamaica, has no choice but to join the buccaneers who have taken him prisoner. Blackbeard is assembling an empire of ruthless navy of pirates, living and undead, to voyage to the fabled Fountain of Youth. John, now known as Jack Shandy, must use magic, swordsmanship, and even his puppeteer skills to free himself from Blackbeard's deadly supernatural domination. |
Patient Zero: A Joe Ledger Novel | Maberry, Jonathan | 2009 | A radical Middle Eastern terrorist group plans to release a deadly bio-weapon on the American people. |
Paul Is Undead: The British Zombie Invasion | Goldsher, Alan | 2010 | An alternate history mashup in which The Beatles (except Ringo Starr, depicted as a ninja) are zombies. |
Plague of the Dead: The Morningstar Strain | Recht, Z. A. | 2006 | Victims infected with the Morningstar virus are subject to delirium, fever, violent behavior, and have a 100% mortality rate. People who die while infected with Morningstar return from death to walk the earth.[3] |
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies | Grahame-Smith, Seth | 2009 | Mashup combining Jane Austen's classic 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice with elements of modern zombie fiction.[4] |
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls | Hockensmith, Steve | 2010 | Prequel to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. |
Resident Evil: Zero Hour | Perry, S.D. | 2004 | Adaption of Resident Evil 0. |
Resident Evil: The Umbrella Conspiracy | Perry, S.D. | 1998 | Adaptation of Resident Evil. |
Resident Evil: Caliban Cove | Perry, S.D. | 1998 | |
Resident Evil: City of the Dead | Perry, S.D. | 1999 | Adaptation of Resident Evil 2. |
Resident Evil: Underworld | Perry, S.D. | 1999 | |
Resident Evil: Nemesis | Perry, S.D. | 2000 | Adaptation of Resident Evil 3. |
Resident Evil: Code Veronica | Perry, S.D. | 2001 | Adaptation of Resident Evil Code: Veronica. |
So Now You're a Zombie: A Handbook for the Newly Undead | John Austin | 2010 | Teen book. All aspects of the zombie lifestyle are surveyed in this satirical take on an orientation manual for the newly undead. |
The Rising | Keene, Brian | 2004 | Demons possess the bodies of the dead, including animals. One man attempts to reach his son. |
The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror | Moore, Christopher | 2004 | |
Thunder and Ashes: The Morningstar Strain, Book 2 | Recht, Z. A. | 2008 | Three months have passed since the Morningstar Virus first appeared. Sequel to Plague of the Dead.[3] |
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War | Brooks, Max | 2007 | An oral history told by many survivors of the start, during, and aftermath of the zombie apocalypse.[5][6] |
Zombie Survival Guide, The | Brooks, Max | 2003 | An earnest discussion of various survival techniques in a world threatened by zombies. |
Zombies: A Record of the Year of Infection | Roff, Don | 2009 | A man writes in his bird watching journal about trying to survive in a zombie apocalypse. |
Zombie Dawn Outbreak | Thomas, Michael G. & Thomas, Nick S. | 2010 | The first novel in the exciting Zombie Dawn series that follows the outbreak of a deadly Zombie plague and the people that are left, fighting to survive. |
Zombie Dawn Exodus | Thomas, Michael G. & Thomas, Nick S. | 2010 | The second novel in the exciting Zombie Dawn series that follows the outbreak of a deadly Zombie plague and the people that are left, fighting to survive. This book continues the story one year on from Zombie Dawn Outbreak. |
Zombie Dawn Apocalypse | Thomas, Michael G. & Thomas, Nick S. | 2011 | The third novel in the Zombie Dawn Trilogy. |
Nonfiction
Name | Author | Year |
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The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia | Dendle, Peter | 2000 |
Book of the Dead: The Complete History of Zombie Cinema | Russell, Jamie | 2005 |
Introducing Zombies (Famous Movie Monsters) | Forget, Thomas | 2006 |
The Undead and Philosophy: Chicken Soup for the Soulless | Greene, Richard and K. Silem Mohammad | 2006 |
Gospel of the Living Dead: George Romero's Visions of Hell on Earth | Paffenroth, Kim | 2006 |
Eaten Alive!: Italian Cannibal and Zombie Movies | Slater, Jay | 2006 |
Zompoc: How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse | Michael G. Thomas and Nick S. Thomas | 2009 |
Zompoc: Weapons and Tactics for the Zombie Apocalypse | Michael G. Thomas and Nick S. Thomas | 2010 |
Comic books
Name | Author | Year |
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28 Days Later: The Aftermath | Niles, Steve | 2007 |
Deadworld | Reed, Gary | 1992 |
Escape of the Living Dead | Russo, John A. | 2005 |
Highschool of the Dead | Daisuke Sato and Shouji Sato | 2006 |
The Last Christmas | Posehn, Brian | 2006 |
Marvel Zombies | Mark Millar and Robert Kirkman | 2005 |
Marvel Zombies 2 | Kirkman, Robert | 2007 |
Marvel Zombies 3 | Van Lente, Fred | 2008 |
Marvel Zombies vs. The Army of Darkness | Layman, John | 2007 |
Remains | Niles, Steve | 2004 |
Victorian Undead | Edginton, Ian | 2010 |
The Walking Dead | Kirkman, Robert | 2003 |
Xombie: Reanimated (Volume 1) | Farr, James | 2008 |
The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks | Brooks, Max | 2009 |
See also
References
- ^ "Cell Review from Pickerington Public Library". Publishers Weekly. 2006-01-02. Retrieved 2008-08-28.
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(help) - ^ "Zombies Rise in Teen Lit". Pittsburgh Post Gazette. 2009-05-26. Retrieved 2009-08-08.
- ^ a b "The Morningstar Saga". Retrieved 2010-07-26.
- ^ Grossman, Lev (2009-04-02). "Pride and Prejudice, Now With Zombies!". Time. Retrieved 2009-04-04.
- ^ "Exclusive Interview: Max Brooks on World War Z". Eat My Brains!. October 20, 2006. Retrieved April 26, 2008.
- ^ Currie, Ron (September 5, 2008). "The End of the World as We Know it". Untitled Books. Retrieved September 21, 2008.