WWZ: Other Good Reads in this Vein

[Brad Theado]

Ghost Road Blues
Reign of the Dead
Apocalypse End: Reign of the Dead
Patient Zero: A Joe Ledger Novel
Day by Day Armageddon
The First Days
Monster Island

[Ben]

Not a novel or a collection of short stories, but I recommend the Book of the Dead: The Complete History of Zombie Cinema.

[Nathanael]

A few of my favorites besides what has already been mentioned above are:

Plague of the Dead
Thunder and Ashes
Eden: By Tommy Arlin
The Best of All Flesh: Zombie Anthology
The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks
The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection From the Living Dead

[Ben]

Cell

[Sean]

The Forest of Hands and Teeth is pretty fun, though being a YA novel[1:] there's quite a bit of teenaged wangst.

Unfortunately, the sequel really sucks.

[1:] Yes, a YA zombie novel.

[Peter]

For a different take on the zombie mythology (it is a std) you can read the upcoming book in online serial form for free before "The Loving Dead" by Amelia Beamer comes out this summer. With the transmission of the disease sexually transmitted it is not a young adult book.

http://www.ameliabeamer.com/category/...

[Sean]

Peter wrote: "For a different take on the zombie mythology (it is a std) you can read the upcoming book in online serial form for free before "The Loving Dead" by Amelia Beamer comes out this summer. With the tr..."

As though sexy vampire books weren't bad enough...

[Peter]

They aren't sexy zombies but the disease that causes the zombies is an std. The zombies behave in regular zombie like behavior once they have turned (for the most part). The story is mainly about the start of the outbreak.

[Sean]

How quickly does this STD work? It must be incredibly slow if it has any chance to spread before the infected become symptomatic.

[Peter]

It takes a few hours to a few days but biting spreads it almost immediatly. The story takes place over the first 48 hours or so of the outbreak.

[Sean]

It doesn't seem to me that there are enough people who have sex with multiple partners over the course of a few days for the STD vector to be a significant factor in the outbreak. We might have to nuke a couple college campuses and shut down a few dance clubs, but other than that, it'd be a standard zombie outbreak.

But maybe I'm hanging out with the wrong people.

[Peter]

Sex isn't the only vector, just the slowest. Biting is a nearly instant turning. Also it seems the when starting to turn the person is more aroused and puts out something that arouses the people around them (Never completely described in the book but it is all first person). Turning by std is more like being bitten in "Sean of the Dead".

[aldenoneil]

Peter wrote: "Sex isn't the only vector, just the slowest. Biting is a nearly instant turning. Also it seems the when starting to turn the person is more aroused and puts out something that arouses the people ar..."

Sounds like a Twilight move: "I love you, but I want you so bad it's dangerous." Pairing sex and monsters certainly isn't new, but it's strange to see a resurgence in YA fiction.

[Fresno Bob]

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