John Sears | March 20, 2011
This chart linked by the Horror Society illustrates almost everything that’s wrong with the Anti-Zombie Mainstream Media: the fixation on violent approaches to problem solving, the use of retribution at the expense of reconciliation, past mayhem justifying future slaughters, and of course, Max Brooks’ faux-academic Living Supremacist ravings; all are on display. Truly it is [...]
John Sears | March 17, 2011
The news is going around the web about a book that the former Editor-in-Chief of Rue Morgue magazine has coming out about Zombies: The zombie phenomenon is unique in Western popular culture. From its origins in the voodoo beliefs of Haiti, it has become a key ingredient in today’s cinema, popular literature and comics. With [...]
John Sears | March 17, 2011
First of course, Mr. Grahame-Smith got the ball rolling on the entire genre of ‘Mix public domain work with Zombies’, for which literature itself owes him a sound thrashing. Yes, we can lay the lion’s share of the blame for an entire subgenre of lazy, relatively unimaginative Anti-Zombie fiction at his feet, even if, of [...]
John Sears | March 15, 2011
I’m always on the lookout for more Zombie Friendly media, especially to help educate the next generation about Zombie Rights and to counter the hateful propaganda pushed at even our youngest citizens by things like Plants vs. Zombies, which cloak their fearmongering in cutesy graphics. So when I learned about a series of children’s books [...]
John Sears | March 12, 2011
I wonder why it is that, of all the potentially Zombie animals out there, it’s dogs that seem to inspire the most fiction. Perhaps the earliest I became aware of this phenomenon was in the story ‘The Pack’ by Chet Williamson, written in 1991. (Now that’s a gruesome one, more than a bit strange, and, [...]
John Sears | February 22, 2011
This statement put up on BuyZombie by the author of a number of Anti-Zombie books on their marketability and the influence of the Anti-Zombie craze on authorial choices was illuminating, if depressing: When I started writing fiction seriously I never thought I’d end up a zombie writer. That’s not to say I am strictly a [...]
John Sears | February 18, 2011
This story from BuyZombie got under my skin perhaps more than it should: Rhiannon Frater has to be happy these days. First off her novel The First Days is being reissued with a hot new cover and, probably slightly more exciting for her, one of her novels is going to be up on the big [...]
John Sears | February 17, 2011
We’ve mentioned the spinoff book from this touring comedy troupe/Anti-Zombie hate brigade before here on the ZRC, but British Anti-Zombie fanatics behind ‘How To Survive A Zombie Apocalypse’ are coming to the United States: The team behind the award winning, sell out, cult, comedy seminar ‘How To Survive A Zombie Apocalypse’ are about to take [...]
John Sears | February 15, 2011
I suppose, on reflection, there must be a lot of Anti-Zombie magnet products out there. There are magnets for everything, and it’s not too expensive to make them, which helps to explain why I have so many from local takeout restaurants on the ZRC fridge. Neither is Anti-Zombie poetry unheard of here at The Zombie [...]
John Sears | February 14, 2011
Recently I started going through the FearNet gift buying guide, looking for more Zombie-related products to review or at least discuss here for the site, and came across one seemingly tailor made for today’s particular holiday: Vampire romance is so last century. Zombie romance – now that is a sub-sub-genre. This anthology collects 21 stories [...]