John Sears | January 20, 2011
Ever wonder what The Postman would be like with less David Brin (or Kevin Costner) and more Zombies (i.e., any)? Well, wonder no longer, because “The Last Mailman: Neither Rain, Nor Sleet, Nor Zombies” by Kevin Burke mixes post-apocalyptic mail service with Zombie scaremongering: Four-year degree in business. Trained in hand-to-hand combat. Works well with [...]
John Sears | January 19, 2011
I suppose after Diary of the Dead tried to marry digital cinematography with the Zombie Apocalypse this was only a matter of time:: One woman’s story as she blogs – and fights back – the zombie apocalypse Allison Hewitt and her five colleagues at the Brooks and Peabody Bookstore are trapped together when the zombie [...]
John Sears | January 17, 2011
Oh brother. You know the ‘Zombie Apocalypse’ meme is getting out of hand when the survivalist black-helicopter crowd is latching on to it: The walking dead. A global crisis. The remnants of America. Around the globe, the dead are rising to devour the living. Hospitals are overrun, and martial law has been declared. The streets [...]
John Sears | January 14, 2011
At least they’re not trying to hide the Anti-Zombie agenda with this book, entitled ‘Ten Little Zombies: A Love Story’: Description: When being chased by ten little zombies (no matter how cute they are), your only option is to systematically destroy them one by one, or else become zombie number eleven. In this love story [...]
John Sears | January 2, 2011
At least, that seems to be the theme of new book ‘Married with Zombies’ by Jesse Petersen: Sarah and David have hit a rut. They fight all the time; neither enjoys the other’s company; and the most trivial of issues sets their teeth to grinding. After six tortuous months of couples’ counseling, the pair has [...]
John Sears | December 30, 2010
Fangoria recently posted a fairly extensive review of a new Anti-Zombie book that, quite frankly, we hadn’t heard of here at the ZRC just yet called ‘No Flesh May Be Spared’. Said book apparently depicts a cruel world where Zombies are used as fodder for gladiatorial contests hearkening in style to the current ultimate fighting [...]
John Sears | December 29, 2010
Seriously, enough is enough, people. Slapping the Differently Animated into random historical works of fiction that are well in the public domain has gone from novel to quaint to outright derivative hackery. Now we get H.G. Wells’ ‘War of the Worlds’, but with Zombies: It was in 2009 that Seth Grahame-Smith released “Pride and Prejudice [...]
John Sears | December 28, 2010
I mean, just look at the title: “You Might Be A Zombie and Other Bad News” How exactly is that ‘bad news’, Cracked.com? For the blanket assumption that being a Zombie is somehow automatically ‘bad’ news alone, I think we can most likely peg this one as Anti-Zombie. When you read the description, though, it [...]
John Sears | December 22, 2010
The ZRC had a brief but productive dialogue with author Jonathan Maberry back in October of 2009 on the topic of Zombie portrayals and the Zombie Apocalypse… or so we thought. His latest book about Zombies, Rot and Ruin, is out now and on the ZRC’s review pile, but I’m not here to talk about [...]
John Sears | December 19, 2010
Our worthy adversaries over at Zombie Universe alerted the ZRC to this distasteful and highly disturbing image: Wow, huh? In case of Zombies you need a handful of guns, knives, utensils and Spam? The first thing that strikes me about this tableau is that it’s hateful, fearful and offensive. The idea of greeting Zombies with [...]