Can zombies run or do they only walk? The purist position appears to be they shamble; they think it’s ridiculous that dead people can run. To which I say: Um, this is a debate about what dead people can do. Dead people can’t walk or run or crave human flesh.
So I say: If people like running zombies, they should have them.
Me, I like ’em slow, fast, dead, alive, whatever, as long as it’s a good story.
Just finished COMES THE DARK, a survival horror novel by Patrick D’Orazio. I had fun with it. It reminded me of David Moody’s AUTUMN in that the zombies are literally rotting off the page. The world is realistic, lived in, smashed to pieces and almost hopeless. With its basic survival plot and extreme gore and violence, it serves as excellent meat and potatoes zombie fiction for fans who like their read bloody.
Fantastic short film about Australia slowly falling to a zombie plague.
Atlanta Zombie Apocalypse–looks like fun! Check it out.
Horror website 28DaysLaterAnalysis.com reviews TOOTH AND NAIL and says: “There is something magical that happens while reading Craig DiLouie’s TOOTH AND NAIL. Worries fall to the wayside, the trigger finger begins to twitch, the heart races, and the imagination focuses on a darker, more exciting, rage-filled world.”
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Just finished John Ajvide Lindqvist’s HANDLING THE UNDEAD. Not your traditional zombie fare in any way, a little slow, and with a somewhat unsatisfying ending (a major story line ends without resolution), but a highly original, entertaining and emotionally charged story about what would happen if our loved ones came back from the dead.
(By the way, I was a bit surprised by the image used for the cover, which had already been used for a cover for another zombie novel by a fairly prominent author. I saw a similar duplication with another two zombie novels recently. Stock photos are open source images but one would think cover designers would want their work to be somewhat original, and not duplicate other works in the field.)