Rue Morgue #71 is out now and includes a great cover feature on Return of the Living Dead, including awesome interviews with Dan O’Bannon, Linnea Quigley, Allan Trautman (TheTarman!) and Dinah Cancer (singer of 45 Grave). It also includes an interview with the zombie-freindly band Balzac. Check it out.
Sci-Fi Wire has a write-up on sci-fi/fantasy writer Chris Roberson‘s newest novel, Set the Seas on Fire, which he describes as a…
…Napoleonic-era nautical adventure and a love story—with Polynesian zombies.
Not really sure where to go with that. Â
I recently picked up two issues of a great zine called Brains. Awesome reading, especially if you dig your zombies with your punk. All prose, with a few spot illustrations, this is a definite must read. It’s a few years old, but issue 1 & issue 2 are still available from Microcosm Publishing. I couldn’t top this portion of review from a 2005 issue of the punk zine Slug & Lettuce:
“This zine is hilarious. It takes place in a fictional world where cops, yuppies, McDonald’s employees, and Nazis are zombies (wait, that’s kinda like reality) and punks are the heroes who hunt them. I’m not a horror or zombie aficionado but these storeis are immensely entertaining for both their depiction of the punk scene and their setting of a zombie world where drunk spanging punks stand up against them.
Skullring.org has an interview with Max Brooks, author of The Zombie Survival Guide and World War Z. Brooks offers some interesting insight into how he researched for the books and how the movie and graphic novel based on his works are going.
Max Brooks’ World War Z recently made our “X(ombie)-Mas” list. I’ve been trying to pick up a copy of this book, but my local bookstore have been chronically out of stock for the last few months. I really enjoyed his last book, the classic Zombie Survival Manual – Complete Protection from the Living Dead.
Phil Reisman has written an excellent review of World War Z. He also mentions in the article that Brad Pitt has optioned the movie rights, just in case it ever makes to the big screen.
Here are some last minute gift ideas for all your zombie-lovin’ friends and family (living or undead)…
…for the Romero purists: Dawn of the Dead Ultimate Edition
…for the fan of European films: Zombie (aka Zombi 2), The Blind Dead Box Set
…for the fan of Asian films: Wild Zero, Stacy
…for the fan of classic films: Val Lewton’s I Walked With a Zombie
…for the musician: zombie guitar picks
…for the comic book reader: The Walking Dead Book One
…for the comic book reader (who’s fluent in French): The Zombies That Ate the World
…for the zombie fanatic: The Zombie Survival Guide, World War Z
…for the ultimate zombie fanatic: The Book of the Dead: The Complete History of Zombie Cinema
Everyone should own this book, it comes with the highest recommendation.
Now go get your zombie-lovin’ fanatic something they can really sink their teeth into…BRAINS!
Gospel of the Living Dead: George Romero’s Vision of Hell on Earth, by author Kim Paffenroth Ph. D., is the book for fans of George Romero’s biting social-political and religous themes.
From the publisher’s site:
This volume connects American social and religious views with the classic American movie genre of the zombie horror film. For nearly forty years, the films of George A. Romero have presented viewers with hellish visions of our world overrun by flesh-eating ghouls. This study proves that Romero’s films, like apocalyptic literature or Dante’s Commedia, go beyond the surface experience of repulsion to probe deeper questions of human nature and purpose, often giving a chilling and darkly humorous critique of modern, secular America.
While this can be a slighty dry read at times, it is definitely worth checking out.
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