Rachel asked Isaac Marion:

Your undead characters have such a great sense of humanity. What inspired you to create such human zombies?

Isaac Marion Zombies are human. I've always found it weird that most zombie fiction labels the two sides as "zombie" and "human" because zombies are just people in an altered state. Is someone with rabies not human? Is a dead body not human? I think the tendency to divide along those lines is indicative of the way zombies are usually used in fiction: as props. As generic obstacles for the characters to overcome. Not as people, because thinking of them as people raises too many sad and uncomfortable thoughts when you're just trying to blow shit up and splatter some brains. I've never been very interested in that traditional type of zombie story. I'm interested in zombies as a window into the human condition, not just in a broad social sense as in the usual metaphors (consumerism, etc) but in an individual sense, on a more spiritual, existential level. So the zombies in my stuff are much more personal, because they're what the story is all about.

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