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Zombie Zoology
Zombie Zoology an Unnatural History
Severed Press has assembled a truly original anthology of never before published stories of living dead beasts. Inside you will find tales of prehistoric creatures rising from the Bog, a survivalist taking on a troop of rotting baboons, a NASA experiment going Ape, A hunter going a Moose too far and many more undead creatures from Hell.
The crawling, buzzing, flying abominations of mother nature have risen and they are hungry.
Table of Content
"Monkey House" by Tim Curran
"You will" by Ted Wenskus
"Lucy" by Eric Dimbleby
"Loss of Vector" by William Wood
"One Man and His Dog" by Wayne Goodchild
"Why the Wild Things Are" by Carl Barker
"Two Days before the End" by Ryan C. Thomas
"Gift Horse" by J. Gilliam Martin
"The Roo" by Anthony Wedd
"Dead Dog Tired" by Anthony Giangregorio
"The Rising" by Hayden Williams
"SWAT" by Brian Pinkerton
Severed Press has assembled a truly original anthology of never before published stories of living dead beasts. Inside you will find tales of prehistoric creatures rising from the Bog, a survivalist taking on a troop of rotting baboons, a NASA experiment going Ape, A hunter going a Moose too far and many more undead creatures from Hell.
The crawling, buzzing, flying abominations of mother nature have risen and they are hungry.
Table of Content
"Monkey House" by Tim Curran
"You will" by Ted Wenskus
"Lucy" by Eric Dimbleby
"Loss of Vector" by William Wood
"One Man and His Dog" by Wayne Goodchild
"Why the Wild Things Are" by Carl Barker
"Two Days before the End" by Ryan C. Thomas
"Gift Horse" by J. Gilliam Martin
"The Roo" by Anthony Wedd
"Dead Dog Tired" by Anthony Giangregorio
"The Rising" by Hayden Williams
"SWAT" by Brian Pinkerton
254 pages, Paperback
First published May 7, 2010
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About the author
Tim Curran
149 books601 followersTim Curran lives in Michigan and is the author of the novels Skin Medicine, Hive, Dead Sea, Resurrection, The Devil Next Door, and Biohazard, as well as the novella The Corpse King. His short stories have appeared in such magazines as City Slab, Flesh&Blood, Book of Dark Wisdom, and Inhuman, and anthologies such as Shivers IV, High Seas Cthulhu, and Vile Things.
For DarkFuse and its imprints, he has written the bestselling The Underdwelling, the Readers Choice-Nominated novella Fear Me, Puppet Graveyard as well as Long Black Coffin.
Find him on the web at: www.corpseking.com.
For DarkFuse and its imprints, he has written the bestselling The Underdwelling, the Readers Choice-Nominated novella Fear Me, Puppet Graveyard as well as Long Black Coffin.
Find him on the web at: www.corpseking.com.
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July 24, 2021
Only liked these stories in the book.
Monkey House
The Yule Cat
Loss of Vector
Why the wild things are
Gift horse mouth
Monkey House
The Yule Cat
Loss of Vector
Why the wild things are
Gift horse mouth
July 20, 2010
Zombie Zoology, an anthology by Severed Press, is no ordinary zombie anthology. There are no human zombies here….it’s all Mother Nature’s finest creatures hungry for the taste of flesh. If you’ve ever wondered what happened to the animals during a zombie apocalypse, wonder no more. From a failed NASA experiment on the old Skylab, to a boy and his horse, as and a pet goat that won’t die, there’s something here for everyone.
The first story in the anthology and one of my favorites is “Monkey House” by Tim Curran. The Necros-3 virus has killed off and then reanimated two-thirds of the world’s population, but through the efforts of the military and scientists creating an anti-viral for the survivors, people are starting to come out of hiding and are talking about rebuilding. Emma and Gus have managed to survive in their fortified home and Emma is ready to move on to Ft. Kendrix even if it means leaving Gus behind. What they discover, to their horror is the virus has apparently jumped species and everyone forgot about the Primate Research Center. This is a great story, and the end is priceless.
Another favorite of mine is “One Man and His Dog” by Wayne Goodchild. While doing a job at the Kelson house, exterminator Burt finds a large pale cockroach that he thinks is too beautiful to kill. He spares it and finds that the three-inch bug is smart and eats other bugs—providing Burt with a chemical free way to run his exterminating business. Connor, Burt’s only employee isn’t so sure. The two men soon discover that this is no ordinary roach, and eradicating other bugs is not what it has in mind. This story really freaked me out along with “The Roo” by Anthony Wedd, about a couple of travelers in the Outback whose car accident exposes them to something horrifying; and “SWAT” by Brian Pinkerton about a SWAT team sent into Clarkson in the swamps of Louisiana to control a zombie outbreak that they soon find is being spread by mosquitoes. All three of these stories gave me the creepy-crawlies and they’ll do the same for you.
One other story I liked but found very disturbing is “Dead Dog Tired” by Anthony Giangregorio. In this story we learn that Rufus’ wife divorced him because he abused her but he fought her in court for custody of her beloved pit bull and won. To punish his ex-wife for leaving him, Rufus allows the dog to starve to death over a period of four days and even enjoys it. Now I despise anyone who abuses a dog and reading this story really bothered me…even after the dog becomes reanimated. Anthony Giangregorio gets total props for making me uncomfortable while reading his story.
I didn’t care for “Why the Wild Things Are” by Carl Barker, only because I didn’t think it flowed as well as the other stories. A story about local wildlife turning into zombies and the government’s response, I found myself losing interest while reading about how it happened via a newspaper article along with the main character (he’d read it repeatedly). I also wasn’t crazy about “The Yule Cat” by Ted Wenskus, about a story told about a cat that eats little children in Iceland who don’t wear the knitted garments given them at Christmas. I was a bit confused when Jon, the protagonist, finally finds a whole family of these cats living in a volcano. I think a single cat would have fit the story better. With these two exceptions I loved this very unique anthology and highly recommend it. It will make you think as well as make you squirm.
Contains moderate use of language and lots of gore.
Review by Colleen Wanglund
The first story in the anthology and one of my favorites is “Monkey House” by Tim Curran. The Necros-3 virus has killed off and then reanimated two-thirds of the world’s population, but through the efforts of the military and scientists creating an anti-viral for the survivors, people are starting to come out of hiding and are talking about rebuilding. Emma and Gus have managed to survive in their fortified home and Emma is ready to move on to Ft. Kendrix even if it means leaving Gus behind. What they discover, to their horror is the virus has apparently jumped species and everyone forgot about the Primate Research Center. This is a great story, and the end is priceless.
Another favorite of mine is “One Man and His Dog” by Wayne Goodchild. While doing a job at the Kelson house, exterminator Burt finds a large pale cockroach that he thinks is too beautiful to kill. He spares it and finds that the three-inch bug is smart and eats other bugs—providing Burt with a chemical free way to run his exterminating business. Connor, Burt’s only employee isn’t so sure. The two men soon discover that this is no ordinary roach, and eradicating other bugs is not what it has in mind. This story really freaked me out along with “The Roo” by Anthony Wedd, about a couple of travelers in the Outback whose car accident exposes them to something horrifying; and “SWAT” by Brian Pinkerton about a SWAT team sent into Clarkson in the swamps of Louisiana to control a zombie outbreak that they soon find is being spread by mosquitoes. All three of these stories gave me the creepy-crawlies and they’ll do the same for you.
One other story I liked but found very disturbing is “Dead Dog Tired” by Anthony Giangregorio. In this story we learn that Rufus’ wife divorced him because he abused her but he fought her in court for custody of her beloved pit bull and won. To punish his ex-wife for leaving him, Rufus allows the dog to starve to death over a period of four days and even enjoys it. Now I despise anyone who abuses a dog and reading this story really bothered me…even after the dog becomes reanimated. Anthony Giangregorio gets total props for making me uncomfortable while reading his story.
I didn’t care for “Why the Wild Things Are” by Carl Barker, only because I didn’t think it flowed as well as the other stories. A story about local wildlife turning into zombies and the government’s response, I found myself losing interest while reading about how it happened via a newspaper article along with the main character (he’d read it repeatedly). I also wasn’t crazy about “The Yule Cat” by Ted Wenskus, about a story told about a cat that eats little children in Iceland who don’t wear the knitted garments given them at Christmas. I was a bit confused when Jon, the protagonist, finally finds a whole family of these cats living in a volcano. I think a single cat would have fit the story better. With these two exceptions I loved this very unique anthology and highly recommend it. It will make you think as well as make you squirm.
Contains moderate use of language and lots of gore.
Review by Colleen Wanglund
June 7, 2013
I need to get in the habit of writing reviews right after I finish reading.
Honestly, I've forgotten most of the stories except for the beginning and the end. The first one about the freakin' baboons and the last one about the mosquitoes are what got to me the most. Yikes. If I remember correctly, I had a nightmare. Zombies are the only thing that can do that to me.
...Excluding that one nightmare about Santa Claus. Don't judge me.
Honestly, I've forgotten most of the stories except for the beginning and the end. The first one about the freakin' baboons and the last one about the mosquitoes are what got to me the most. Yikes. If I remember correctly, I had a nightmare. Zombies are the only thing that can do that to me.
...Excluding that one nightmare about Santa Claus. Don't judge me.
August 24, 2012
This is the only Anthology I have every read that I finished feeling every story was worth reading. And as far as zombie anthologies specifically go these were all solid reads, although some did shine brighter than others. the last story, "SWAT", is by far the best in the book and probably the creepiest.
November 8, 2012
Good call Holden! I have stayed away from anthologies for a while, mostly because I find myself flipping ahead to see how long a certain story is. The contents of this anthology are rich with fresh spins on the zombie genre, and every one was worth the read.
March 15, 2023
Thanks to one of my hooligan friends who brought a grossly age-inappropriate book (Return Of The Living Dead to 3rd Grade lunch back in 1980, I've been obsessed with zombie fiction.
Thing is, aside from the above and novelizations of Night Of The Living Dead and Dawn Of The Dead, there wasn't any zombie fiction. It simply didn't exist.
At least not until 1989, that is, when Skipp and Spector (Book of the Dead) exploded my brain and helped get the nightmares out of my head.
Therapy resumed in 1992 with Still Dead.
Then came The Internet, and the late '90s (1997? '98?) brought Homepage Of The Dead, where I read each and every story (even the garbage) as they went up.
And in the decade-and-a-half that followed, hundreds of zombooks hit the stands...and thousands more [of generally terrible, Terrible, TERRIBLE offerings] arose from the vanity presses.
I'm a certified zombologist. I know my stuff.
I'm also bored to tears with said stuff.
So it's always neat to find something unique, and Zombie Zoology fits the bill. Aside from zombie dogs in vidya games, animal-based undead mayhem isn't all that common in media; Brian Keene has probably done the most with it, in his The Rising franchise, and Dead Sea.
The Zombie Zoology moan-agerie features monstrous primates, panthers, moose, bugs (zombugs!), hounds, birds (zombirds!), sheep, and horses, with the full spectrum of origins mysterious, magical, and scientific.
Of the twelve tales within, Tim Curran's "Monkey House" is the goopiest, Anthony Wedd's "The Roo" is the most heebie-jeebie-ing, Carl Barker's "Why The Wild Things Are" is the most heart-tuggy, William Wood's "Loss Of Vector" is the most steal-this-idea-for-a-tabletop-game-ful, and Wayne Goodchild's "One Man And His Dog" is the the-world-is-totally-fucked-est.
And while Hayden Williams' "The Rising" [seriously?] is satisfying, I wished more had been done with the concept. More fossil-things > less fossil-things. That's just science.
The true duds are Eric Dimbleby's "Lucy" and Anthony Giangregorio's "Dead Dog Tired", because the leads are cartoonishly, obnoxiously awful and ever-so-deserving of their climactic comeuppances. Slogs to read.
The grammatical errors are kept to a minimum (I counted about five), which is a godsdamned miracle in this era of anyone-can-publish-anything. Severed Press did much, much better than the norm here...but it's weird there's no editor credited for the collection. None at all.
Human zombies show up in trace amounts. Zombie Zoology truly showcases the critters, and lives up to its title.
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MostHilariously Disgusting Evocative Line In The Collection: Emma pulled herself away, wet and stinking with the male's drainage.
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Final Review Score: 3 Tom Petty's Full Moon Fevers out of 5.
Thing is, aside from the above and novelizations of Night Of The Living Dead and Dawn Of The Dead, there wasn't any zombie fiction. It simply didn't exist.
At least not until 1989, that is, when Skipp and Spector (Book of the Dead) exploded my brain and helped get the nightmares out of my head.
Therapy resumed in 1992 with Still Dead.
Then came The Internet, and the late '90s (1997? '98?) brought Homepage Of The Dead, where I read each and every story (even the garbage) as they went up.
And in the decade-and-a-half that followed, hundreds of zombooks hit the stands...and thousands more [of generally terrible, Terrible, TERRIBLE offerings] arose from the vanity presses.
I'm a certified zombologist. I know my stuff.
I'm also bored to tears with said stuff.
So it's always neat to find something unique, and Zombie Zoology fits the bill. Aside from zombie dogs in vidya games, animal-based undead mayhem isn't all that common in media; Brian Keene has probably done the most with it, in his The Rising franchise, and Dead Sea.
The Zombie Zoology moan-agerie features monstrous primates, panthers, moose, bugs (zombugs!), hounds, birds (zombirds!), sheep, and horses, with the full spectrum of origins mysterious, magical, and scientific.
Of the twelve tales within, Tim Curran's "Monkey House" is the goopiest, Anthony Wedd's "The Roo" is the most heebie-jeebie-ing, Carl Barker's "Why The Wild Things Are" is the most heart-tuggy, William Wood's "Loss Of Vector" is the most steal-this-idea-for-a-tabletop-game-ful, and Wayne Goodchild's "One Man And His Dog" is the the-world-is-totally-fucked-est.
And while Hayden Williams' "The Rising" [seriously?] is satisfying, I wished more had been done with the concept. More fossil-things > less fossil-things. That's just science.
The true duds are Eric Dimbleby's "Lucy" and Anthony Giangregorio's "Dead Dog Tired", because the leads are cartoonishly, obnoxiously awful and ever-so-deserving of their climactic comeuppances. Slogs to read.
The grammatical errors are kept to a minimum (I counted about five), which is a godsdamned miracle in this era of anyone-can-publish-anything. Severed Press did much, much better than the norm here...but it's weird there's no editor credited for the collection. None at all.
Human zombies show up in trace amounts. Zombie Zoology truly showcases the critters, and lives up to its title.
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Final Review Score: 3 Tom Petty's Full Moon Fevers out of 5.
March 24, 2025
A great anthology full of zombie animals a few of my favorites included, Tim Curran Monkey House, it was kinda reading a zombie version of Planet of the Apes. Gift Horse was great but I would have named it Black Beauty. And last but not least. Anthony Giangregorio, Dead Dog Tired. Revenge of a pet is awesome as dog zombie eats his abusive master.
January 23, 2018
A collection of stories by a variety of writers. The quality varies heavily and some of the pieces are stinkier than the zombie subject matter.
February 7, 2015
At a time where zombie anthologies are a dime a dozen, it's nice to see people out there trying to come up with original ideas for zombies and their kind. I got this book as a gift (I requested it) because it looked like it would be an interesting take on the whole zombie genre. If that's all you are looking for, pick it up, it's a nice collection, though it does suffer some problems throughout each story.
I'll do a quick review of each story, though I am missing one. Spoiler alert:
Monkey House: Out of this anthology, this story was the worst in my mind and suffered from a few things. One was the 'gross out' factor, which I am sure was meant to horrify. This may have happened if my ability to suspend my disbelief wasn't dashed at the behaviors of the monkeys within the story. You have them talking about zombies, which act like the typical mindless, flesh hungry zombies. But then you have these zombie monkeys which act like undead, but fully aware, monkeys. They throw their own organs, they hump for dominance, they pick vermin off each other. Nothing, NOTHING has changed in their zombie states, yet the zombies that are people are stereotypical zombies. It honestly makes no sense, and killed the story for me. That, and of course, the mindless gore/gross out tactics which seemed to have been only included to make the story horrific.
Yule Cat: Excellent story, right up until he discovers his prey in the cave with a bunch of others of its kind. Then the story just fell apart. Why? Because this one cat, not a BUNCH of cats, has been stalking the village. Why haven't the other cats been doing the same? What could have been a wonderful story also ended up with a sort of deus ex machina resolution that really could have been handled far better to create a more engaging story.
Lucy: An interesting story. A main character you hate right off the bat, it is nice to see him get his just rewards at the end. Hits a lot of good beats, and I don't have a lot of bad things to say about it. A good story overall.
Loss of Vector: Not badly written, though not all that entertaining.
Why The Wild Things Are: Boring, long, and although an interesting look into the mind of someone in a zombie animal situation, it just takes too long to get anywhere. Too much time is spent on world building, not enough time spent on the whole reason for the story.
Two Days Before The End: Actually a good story, and handled well. The two boys are believable, and the reader feels for the sheep as well as for both boys. Overall a good story and an enjoyable one.
Gift Horse: This story was excellent for its characters. You feel for them, you cheer for them, yet in the end, you go wtf at the ending. The fact that the two main characters weren't present at the end of the book (off doing other things) and you don't really know what happened to them (did they die, did they go off to get the satanic book, etc) you are left not really caring about the girl, the bullies, or the man with the gun. Why? Because you aren't really made to care about them within the story, so you can't really sympathize with them at all. It's the two boys you care about and they aren't even there in the end.
The Roo: Worms. Wow, that actually creeped me out. It's a nice idea, and a setting you don't normally find. It's a situation where the zombie itself isn't what scares you, but what it carries instead. The source of the zombie kangaroo is what terrifies the crap out of you. Very well done.
Dead Dog Tired: Poorly written, too much narrative that is poorly done and an ending that you figure out pretty much from the get go. The only thing you care about is the dog, and you lose that caring when you notice the number of pages until you are done the story. This story felt like watching a standard, cliché zombie movie, only with a dog. Even the revenge felt poorly done and unrewarding for what you have had to slog through to get to that point. Almost skip worthy.
The Rising: Alright, interesting idea, well written, but if these prehistoric animals who were brought back from the tar pits are truly what they are, why do they still have things like eyes and skin colours intact? Why do they have maggots feeding on what would be inedible flesh? But still, the zombie prehistoric animal idea is a unique and interesting one.
Swat: A very interesting take on zombie mythology, one that actually got to me suring the opening phase of the story until the characters started to behave like your standard action movie folk, and then it just felt overplayed. The swarming vermin kind of killed the dramatic tension that had been building, where one bug in the room was all sorts of terrifying. This story had a lot of potential, but in the end, the story was only so-so, and the ending after the climax took far too long to come to a close, even for the ironic joke at the end.
I'll do a quick review of each story, though I am missing one. Spoiler alert:
Monkey House: Out of this anthology, this story was the worst in my mind and suffered from a few things. One was the 'gross out' factor, which I am sure was meant to horrify. This may have happened if my ability to suspend my disbelief wasn't dashed at the behaviors of the monkeys within the story. You have them talking about zombies, which act like the typical mindless, flesh hungry zombies. But then you have these zombie monkeys which act like undead, but fully aware, monkeys. They throw their own organs, they hump for dominance, they pick vermin off each other. Nothing, NOTHING has changed in their zombie states, yet the zombies that are people are stereotypical zombies. It honestly makes no sense, and killed the story for me. That, and of course, the mindless gore/gross out tactics which seemed to have been only included to make the story horrific.
Yule Cat: Excellent story, right up until he discovers his prey in the cave with a bunch of others of its kind. Then the story just fell apart. Why? Because this one cat, not a BUNCH of cats, has been stalking the village. Why haven't the other cats been doing the same? What could have been a wonderful story also ended up with a sort of deus ex machina resolution that really could have been handled far better to create a more engaging story.
Lucy: An interesting story. A main character you hate right off the bat, it is nice to see him get his just rewards at the end. Hits a lot of good beats, and I don't have a lot of bad things to say about it. A good story overall.
Loss of Vector: Not badly written, though not all that entertaining.
Why The Wild Things Are: Boring, long, and although an interesting look into the mind of someone in a zombie animal situation, it just takes too long to get anywhere. Too much time is spent on world building, not enough time spent on the whole reason for the story.
Two Days Before The End: Actually a good story, and handled well. The two boys are believable, and the reader feels for the sheep as well as for both boys. Overall a good story and an enjoyable one.
Gift Horse: This story was excellent for its characters. You feel for them, you cheer for them, yet in the end, you go wtf at the ending. The fact that the two main characters weren't present at the end of the book (off doing other things) and you don't really know what happened to them (did they die, did they go off to get the satanic book, etc) you are left not really caring about the girl, the bullies, or the man with the gun. Why? Because you aren't really made to care about them within the story, so you can't really sympathize with them at all. It's the two boys you care about and they aren't even there in the end.
The Roo: Worms. Wow, that actually creeped me out. It's a nice idea, and a setting you don't normally find. It's a situation where the zombie itself isn't what scares you, but what it carries instead. The source of the zombie kangaroo is what terrifies the crap out of you. Very well done.
Dead Dog Tired: Poorly written, too much narrative that is poorly done and an ending that you figure out pretty much from the get go. The only thing you care about is the dog, and you lose that caring when you notice the number of pages until you are done the story. This story felt like watching a standard, cliché zombie movie, only with a dog. Even the revenge felt poorly done and unrewarding for what you have had to slog through to get to that point. Almost skip worthy.
The Rising: Alright, interesting idea, well written, but if these prehistoric animals who were brought back from the tar pits are truly what they are, why do they still have things like eyes and skin colours intact? Why do they have maggots feeding on what would be inedible flesh? But still, the zombie prehistoric animal idea is a unique and interesting one.
Swat: A very interesting take on zombie mythology, one that actually got to me suring the opening phase of the story until the characters started to behave like your standard action movie folk, and then it just felt overplayed. The swarming vermin kind of killed the dramatic tension that had been building, where one bug in the room was all sorts of terrifying. This story had a lot of potential, but in the end, the story was only so-so, and the ending after the climax took far too long to come to a close, even for the ironic joke at the end.
March 19, 2011
Zombie Zoology, released last May from Severed Press, features twelve stories about dead animals coming back from the grave. The stories take place in varied locals like roach-infested buildings, farms and outer space, and the animals are brought back to life by magic, extraterrestrial pathogens, experiments gone wrong and unexplainable circumstances.
The anthology stands apart from others in the zombie subgenre not on the strength of any particular stories in the book (they’re all good!) but because of the uniqueness of the material covered. There are whole publishing imprints dedicated to nothing but zombie fiction, but hardly any of it deals with zombie animals. Zombie Zoology, by and large, skirts the topic of undead people in the majority of its stories, focusing primarily on animal outbreaks both small- and large-scale.
The only thing that might irk some zombie purists is the tendency of these zombie beasts to break one of the tried and true rules: in several of these stories, damage to the brains did nothing to stop them. In one particular story, a zombie goat sustained multiple skull fractures and still came back for more. But then, zombie animals are largely uncharted territory, so it isn’t a major issue. Zombie Zoology should definitely earn Severed Press some new fans and offer a breath of fresh air to any zombie fan.
The anthology stands apart from others in the zombie subgenre not on the strength of any particular stories in the book (they’re all good!) but because of the uniqueness of the material covered. There are whole publishing imprints dedicated to nothing but zombie fiction, but hardly any of it deals with zombie animals. Zombie Zoology, by and large, skirts the topic of undead people in the majority of its stories, focusing primarily on animal outbreaks both small- and large-scale.
The only thing that might irk some zombie purists is the tendency of these zombie beasts to break one of the tried and true rules: in several of these stories, damage to the brains did nothing to stop them. In one particular story, a zombie goat sustained multiple skull fractures and still came back for more. But then, zombie animals are largely uncharted territory, so it isn’t a major issue. Zombie Zoology should definitely earn Severed Press some new fans and offer a breath of fresh air to any zombie fan.
March 27, 2012
Well....this was kind of a really mixed bag for me.
Some stories were terrible, some were good...none were great.
This was a different take on the Zombie genre dealing with animals that get infected, and the effect on life if an animal gets infected.
The stories that were worth reading in this collection were definitely worth reading, Monkey House, Why the Wild Things Are, Gift Horse, Dead Dog Tired and SWAT.
I especially liked SWAT because it deals with mosquitos...how the hell are you suppsed to stop a mosquito from spreading the virus?? Good story.
It's violent, but nothing crazy...thankfully it's not very long...I really wanted to skip over some of the stories.
Some stories were terrible, some were good...none were great.
This was a different take on the Zombie genre dealing with animals that get infected, and the effect on life if an animal gets infected.
The stories that were worth reading in this collection were definitely worth reading, Monkey House, Why the Wild Things Are, Gift Horse, Dead Dog Tired and SWAT.
I especially liked SWAT because it deals with mosquitos...how the hell are you suppsed to stop a mosquito from spreading the virus?? Good story.
It's violent, but nothing crazy...thankfully it's not very long...I really wanted to skip over some of the stories.
August 18, 2012
This is an anthology of twelve zombie stories with a difference: each story has zombie animals, not just humans. The animals range from birds to kangaroos and from monkeys to mosquitoes. Sometimes the source of the zombieism is a virus, sometimes mutations, sometimes satanic rituals. All are bloody, gory, and graphic- frequently way too much so for my taste. I ended up not even liking most of the stories but there were a couple that I thought were very good- ‘SWAT’ really gave me the heebie-jeebies and ‘One Man and His Dog’ created a very sympathetic character, one I could feel empathy for. Those two are definitely worth a read. Fans of slasher movies will probably appreciate the rest.
January 28, 2014
I've read several zombie anthologies starting with Spector and Skipp's splatterfest Book of the Dead way back in '91. Ever since reading that IMO a perfect collection of Romeroesque undead fiction it's been very tough chasing down stories that would give me the same intensity of that first high. I'm glad to say that Zombie Zoology while far from perfect still manages to deliver short raw bursts of great zombie writing that manage to take me pretty close to reaching that first high. From undead simians, both from the zoo and outer space, to clouds of undead mosquitos, to a recently returned moose, ZZ has a nice collection sure to please the zombie fan eager to try something different.
July 15, 2015
Love animals, love zombies. Most, if not all, the animals kind of 'win' and I love that about these stories. It's about time animals got some revenge on what we have done to them over the thousands of years, if they had to be zombie animals to do that then so-be-it. Stupid humans. ;-)
Only thing to make this better would be longer stories :)
Only thing to make this better would be longer stories :)
August 9, 2012
This amazing book features undead creatures that are not human based. Humans are infected due to different critters but they aren't the main cause. I really enjoyed the variety of causes from voodoo rituals to natural phenomena.
February 7, 2011
Next Stephen King...if not better
January 28, 2012
This is a collection of short stories. I liked the first one, but my interest fell off as I went thru the next three. Shelving this one.
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April 4, 2013
Loved this, such a nice switch from the usual human zombies. Hard to pick a favorite, but I'm leaning towards the one with Rex.
September 24, 2010
Your basic zombie animal I'm gonna eat you type collection!
May 26, 2013
Great set of great short animal zombie tales. Good set of authors and all quite believable. Yesh!
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