List of zombie novels
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This is a list of zombie related novels that are notable themselves or by notable authors.
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| Name | Author | Year | Description |
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| Breathers: A Zombie's Lament | Browne, S. G. | 2009 | A dark, comedic take on zombies told from the point of view of a recently reanimated corpse. |
| Cell | King, Stephen | 2006 | Anyone talking on a cell phone after a particular event becomes an aggressive, bloodthirsty zombie.[1] |
| Autumn: The City | Moody, David | 2003 | The second novel in the Autumn series begins by introducing new characters whose actions run concurrent with the action in the original novel, before uniting the two groups. |
| Autumn: Purification | Moody, David | 2004 | The third novel in the Autumn series revolves around a military bunker sealed off from the outside world. |
| Autumn: The Human Condition | Moody, David | 2005 | A continuation of the Autumn series |
| Autumn: Disintegration | Moody, David | 2011 | A continuation of the Autumn series |
| Autumn: Aftermath | Moody, David | 2012 | The final book in the Autumn series |
| The Awakening | McBean, Brett | 2012 | A coming-of-age novel concerning a teenager’s tumultuous summer as he deals with the joys and hardships of growing up, while learning about the value of freedom at the hands of a kind but cursed old man. Contains strong elements of traditional Haitian Vodou and zombies. |
| City of the Dead | Keene, Brian | 2005 | This is the official follow up to The Rising. Demons possess the bodies of the dead, including animals. One man attempts to reach his son. |
| The Dead | Higson, Charlie | 2010 | A young adult novel. Adults over fourteen turn to zombies, and young survivors battle against them. |
| Dead City | McKinney, Joe | 2006 | Battered by five cataclysmic hurricanes in three weeks, the Texas Gulf Coast and half of the Lone Star state is reeling from the worst devastation in history. A deadly virus has broken out, returning the dead to life. |
| Deadline | Grant, Mira | 2011 | A continuation of Feed. |
| Dead of Night | Maberry, Jonathan | 2011 | A prison doctor injects a condemned serial killer with a formula designed to keep his consciousness awake while his body rots in the grave. But all drugs have unforeseen side-effects. Before he could be buried, the killer wakes up. Hungry. Infected. Contagious. This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang…but a bite. |
| Dead Sea | Keene, Brian | 2007 | A zombie apocalypse starts with undead rats emerging from Baltimore's sewers. |
| Death Troopers | Schreiber, Joe | 2009 | A story in the Star Wars universe about an Imperial prison ship stranded in space, encountering another ship crammed with the ship's crew, which have been turned into zombies due to a bioweapon the ship was carrying. |
| The Enemy | Higson, Charlie | 2009 | A young adult novel. Surviving youngsters battle adults who have become zombies. |
| The Fear | Higson, Charlie | 2011 | A young adult novel. Surviving youths battle "mothers" and "fathers" who have fallen ill. |
| Feed | Grant, Mira | 2010 | News reporters blogging in a world that survives a zombie apocalypse. |
| Forest of Hands and Teeth | Ryan, Carrie | 2009 | Teen book. In a village generations after the zombie apocalypse a 16-year-old struggles with her town's religious rules until the village walls are breached and she is forced to flee into the woods.[2] |
| Friday the 13th: The Jason Strain | Faust, Christa | 2006 | An attempt at replicating the immortality and healing factor of Jason Voorhees goes wrong, and results in a zombie plague. |
| Generation Dead | Waters, Daniel | 2008 | Teen book. In the present day, U.S. teens are randomly rising from the dead, and the country is in turmoil over the question of zombie civil rights. |
| Handling the Undead | Lindqvist, John Ajvide | 2005 | During a massive heatwave the unexplained resurrection of thousands of recently deceased people begins in Stockholm, Sweden. David, whose wife has recently died, has gone to the morgue to identify remains of his lost love only to find that she has begun to move. It's terrifying to David, but gives him a strange kind of hope. |
| History is Dead: A Zombie Anthology | Paffenroth, Kim (editor) | 2007 | Twenty short stories by twenty different authors with zombies in alternate histories. |
| Herbert West–Reanimator | Lovecraft, H.P. | 1921 | Medical doctor invents a serum that re-animates corpses. |
| Illuminatus! | Shea, Robert and Wilson, Robert Anton | 1976 | In the third volume, Leviathan, opens with a rock festival on the shores of Lake Totenkopf in Bavaria. Unknown to all except the heroes and the villains, the bodies of an entire division of the Waffen-SS were interred on an underwater plateau supported by a "biomystical field" to maintain bodily integrity. At the climax of the festival, they will return to life as zombies, surface, and slaughter all 250,000 hippies at the festival. |
| Kiss of Life | Waters, Daniel | 2009 | Teen book. Sequel to Generation Dead. |
| The Living Dead 2 | Adams, John Joseph | 2010 | A collection of 44 short stories about zombies includes contributions by Max Brooks, Robert Kirkman, and David Wellington. |
| Le protocole Reston | Mathieu Fortin | 2009 | In the city of Trois-Rivières, a mutant Asian monster escapes from a boat and a zombie outbreak begins. The governments try to keep the story from the media while a high school teacher and his roommate try to survive to their zombie neighbour. |
| Les morts ont marché | Mathieu Fortin | 2011 | In Saint-Liconet, a zombie outbreak took place. To try finding who was the first living dead among the eight last suspects, you read interviews with witnesses, autopsy reports, and proofs analysis reports. |
| Monster Island | Wellington, David | 2006 | In New York City, the dead walk the streets. From the other side of the planet, a small but heavily-armed group of schoolgirls-turned-soldiers comes in search of desperately needed medicine, with a former UN weapons inspector as their local guide. |
| Monster Nation | Wellington, David | 2006 | A prequel to Monster Island where a sentient zombie tries to cure herself. |
| Monster Planet | Wellington, David | 2007 | Sentient zombies are intent on taking over the world killing the living with a nuclear weapon. |
| Necromancer | Harper, Scott | 2009 | Sequel to Predators or Prey?. Monster hunter Wendy Markland fights zombies in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey. |
| On Stranger Tides | Powers, Tim | 1988 | Puppeteer John Chandagnac, who was sailing to Jamaica, has no choice but to join the buccaneers who have taken him prisoner. Blackbeard is assembling an empire of ruthless navy of pirates, living and undead, to voyage to the fabled Fountain of Youth. John, now known as Jack Shandy, tries to free himself from Blackbeard's deadly supernatural domination. |
| On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert With Dead Folks | Lansdale, Joe R. | 1989 | A bounty hunter chases his quarry in a land where the "dead folks" have re-animated due to a bacteria which has escaped a lab. |
| Patient Zero: A Joe Ledger Novel | Maberry, Jonathan | 2009 | A radical Middle Eastern terrorist group plans to release a deadly bio-weapon on the American people. |
| Pontypool Changes Everything | Burgess, Tony | 1998 | The dark side of humanity as an epidemic virus terrorizes the earth. |
| Pride and Prejudice and Zombies | Grahame-Smith, Seth | 2009 | Mashup combining Jane Austen's classic 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice with elements of modern zombie fiction.[3] |
| Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls | Hockensmith, Steve | 2010 | Prequel to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. |
| Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dreadfully Ever After | Hockensmith, Steve | 2011 | Sequel to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. |
| Raising Stony Mayhall | Gregory, Daryl | 2011 | Set in 1968, after the first zombie apocalypse, the body of a teenage mother is discovered amongst the snow, clutching a dead baby. The dead child begins to grow. |
| Resident Evil: Zero Hour | Perry, S.D. | 2004 | Adaption of Resident Evil 0. |
| Resident Evil: The Umbrella Conspiracy | Perry, S.D. | 1998 | Adaptation of Resident Evil. |
| Resident Evil: Caliban Cove | Perry, S.D. | 1998 | A paramilitary force investigates an Umbrella cover facility. |
| Resident Evil: City of the Dead | Perry, S.D. | 1999 | Adaptation of Resident Evil 2. |
| Resident Evil: Underworld | Perry, S.D. | 1999 | A monster-creation lab is targeted for destruction. |
| Resident Evil: Nemesis | Perry, S.D. | 2000 | Adaptation of Resident Evil 3. |
| Resident Evil: Code Veronica | Perry, S.D. | 2001 | Adaptation of Resident Evil Code: Veronica. |
| The Rising | Keene, Brian | 2004 | Demons possess the bodies of the dead, including animals. One man attempts to reach his son. |
| The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror | Moore, Christopher | 2004 | In his inept attempt to bring "Santa" back to life, an angel causes the townspeople of Pine Cove to fall under siege by brain-hungry zombies who arise from their burial plots. |
| Undead | Russo, John | 2010 | A novelization of Night of the Living Dead and a sequel called Return of the Living Dead. |
| The Undead: Zombie Anthology | D. L. Snell (Editor), Elijah Hall (Editor), Eric Shapiro (Contributor) | 2005 | Collection of 23 stories. Classic tales of survival in a world populated by the living dead as well as an array of unique takes on the zombie genre from authors including David Wellington and David Moody[4] |
| Under a Graveyard Sky | Ringo, John | 2013 | The story of a family escaping a zombie epidemic in the US on a sailboat and the beginning of the process of finding survivors on the high seas as a prelude to retaking the mainland. Book one of the Black Tide Rising series. |
| The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor | Kirkman, Robert and Bonasinga, Jay | 2011 | It depicts the journey of Philip Blake in the early days of the undead apocalypse to his eventual rise as "The Governor" of Woodbury. |
| The Walking Dead: The Road to Woodbury | Kirkman, Robert and Bonasinga, Jay | 2012 | It follows the travails of Lilly Caul who finds herself coming in contact with the "The Governor" of Woodbury, a refuge amongst the zombie apocalypse that is not what it seems. The second of a planned trilogy. |
| Warm Bodies | Marion, Isaac | 2010 | R is a zombie who is a little different than his fellow Dead. He meets Julie Grigio, a Living girl, and ends up falling in love. |
| World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War | Brooks, Max | 2007 | An oral history told by many survivors of the start, during, and aftermath of the zombie apocalypse.[5][6] |
| Zom-B | Shan, Darren | 2012 | When news reports start appearing of a zombie outbreak in Ireland, B Smith's racist father thinks it's a joke—but even if it isn't, he figures, it's ok to lose a few Irish. When zombies attack B's school, B is forced on a mad dash through the serpentine corridors, making allegiances with anyone with enough guts to fight off their pursuers. |
| Zom-B: Underground | Shan, Darren | 2013 | The second book in the Zom-B series. Waking up in an underground military complex, months after the zombie outbreak, B has no memory of the last few months. As B learns more about the zombies held in the complex, and the scientists keeping them captive, unease settles in. |
| Zom-B: City | Shan, Darren | 2013 | The third book in the Zom-B series. B explores the streets of London, where we get our first glimpses of what has happened to the world in the wake of the zombie attacks. |
| Zom-B: Angels | Shan, Darren | 2013 | The fourth book in the Zom-B series. B finds refuge with Angels, a group of teenagers who are dedicated to the task of restoring order back to the living. They are led by a mysterious, kindly doctor who can answer many of the questions that have been thrown up so far in the series |
| Zom-B: Baby | Shan, Darren | 2013 | The fifth book in the Zom-B series. B is trying to settle into life with the Angels, but finds it hard to believe some of Dr Oystein's claims. When she decides to seek refuge elsewhere, she scours the streets of London in search of a place to call home. But what she finds will lead B to question everything that she has ever held to be true. |
| Zom-B: Gladiator | Shan, Darren | 2014 | The sixth book in the Zom-B series. B Smith has decided to live—and to fight for good as long as possible. However, London is overridden with the brain-eating undead and swarming with human mercenaries whose sense of right and wrong dissolved when society did. When they lay a trap, B is captured. And it'll take dozens of battles—and the fight of a lifetime—to escape. |
| Zom-B: Mission | Shan, Darren | 2014 | The seventh book in the Zom-B series. B Smith and the other Angels receive their first mission - to safely escort a group of human survivors from the zombie-infested streets of London to New Kirkham, a barricaded safe haven in the country. But after battling through crowds of undead monsters, B discovers that the survivors of the town don't necessarily represent the best of humanity. . ... |
| Zombie Survival Guide, The | Brooks, Max | 2003 | An earnest discussion of various survival techniques in a world threatened by zombies. |
| Zombies: A Record of the Year of Infection | Roff, Don | 2009 | A man writes in his bird watching journal about trying to survive in a zombie apocalypse. |
| Zone One | Whitehead, Colson | 2011 | Mark Spitz is a "sweeper," clearing away stragglers from Manhattan's Zone One district after the zombie attacks. These trapped souls are malfunctioning zombies, destined to ceaselessly repeat mundane acts they carried out while alive. |
| Zombie Apocalypse! | Jones, Stephen | 2010 | A mosaic novel in which interconnected narratives create a unique vision of the End of the World brought about by a plague. |
| The Sacrifice | Charlie Higson | 2012 | A post-apocalyptic young adult horror novel and the fourth book in a planned seven-book series, titled The Enemy. |
| The Fallen | Charlie Higson | 2013 | A post-apocalyptic young adult horror novel and the fifth book in a planned seven-book series, titled The Enemy. |
| The Hunted | Charlie Higson | 2014 | A post-apocalyptic young adult horror novel and the sixth book in a planned seven-book series, titled The Enemy. |
| The End | Charlie Higson | 2012 | A post-apocalyptic young adult horror novel and the seventh book in a planned seven-book series, titled The Enemy. |
| Geeks vs. Zombies | Charlie Higson | 2012 | A companion short story book in The Enemy series portrays an exclusive scene from The Fear (2011), on World Book Day. |
| Zombie Apocalypse! Fightback | Jones, Stephen | 2012 | The sequel to Zombie Apocalypse! The human fightback against the legions of the walking dead begins. |
Nonfiction
| Name | Author | Year |
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| The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia | Dendle, Peter | 2000 |
| The Undead and Philosophy: Chicken Soup for the Soulless | Greene, Richard and K. Silem Mohammad | 2006 |
| Gospel of the Living Dead: George Romero's Visions of Hell on Earth | Paffenroth, Kim | 2006 |
| Theories of International Politics and Zombies | Drezner, Daniel | 2010 |
Comic books
See also
References
- ↑ "Cell Review from Pickerington Public Library". Publishers Weekly. 2006-01-02. Retrieved 2008-08-28.
- ↑ "Zombies Rise in Teen Lit". Pittsburgh Post Gazette. 2009-05-26. Retrieved 2009-08-08.
- ↑ Grossman, Lev (2009-04-02). "Pride and Prejudice, Now With Zombies!". Time. Retrieved 2009-04-04.
- ↑ D.L. Snell (Editor), Elijah Hall (Editor), Eric Shapiro (Contributor) (2005). The Undead: Zombie Anthology. Permuted Press. ISBN 978-0976555940.
- ↑ "Exclusive Interview: Max Brooks on World War Z". Eat My Brains!. October 20, 2006. Retrieved April 26, 2008.
- ↑ Currie, Ron (September 5, 2008). "The End of the World as We Know it". Untitled Books. Retrieved September 21, 2008.
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