When you were a kid, if you were like me, you read some Choose Your Own Adventure Books. Well, the Zombie Apocalypse meme has finally branched out to corrupt even this longstanding childhood tradition, putting out yet more fiction that seeks to exclude Zombies from the conversation/audience:

This thrilling, fast-paced adventure pits you, the reader, against hordes of the undead. Every page offers a choice that can result in a grizzly death or bring you one step closer to stopping the zombie horde.

Zombie ‘horde’ again, eh? We’re still going with that term I see. Fantastic.

When I was a kid I got to read about haunted houses, caves that let you travel through time, or even stopping Space Vampires, which, to be fair, were still depicted as pretty awesome, and they were illegal immigrants to our planet so there was a legitimate reason to stop them.

The last thing we need are Anchor Space-pires.

But now, Zombie kids get to contend with this instead. Tragic really.

I actually had the idea to do a CYOA style book about the Zombie ‘Apocalypse’ once, but I’m lazy, so nothing ever came of it. Now that the bandwagon has really gotten moving it’d just seem derivative, though, unlike the above book which promises ‘no happy endings’, mine would have had some, and you can probably guess that you don’t get them by fighting the ‘Zombie hordes’ either.

Tags: Anti-Zombie Products, Books

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