Zombies are taking over the world!: Literature
Zombie literature is becoming increasingly popular
Max Brooks is currently one of the most prolific Zombie writers.
He wrote such texts as The Zombie Survival Guide, published in 2003, which contained everything a post-zombie apocalypse survivor needs to know, from which shelter is most appropriate to the best way to take down a zombie. The tongue-in-cheek but highly serious book was hugely popular, and spurned Brooks to write a sequel in comic book form, entitled Recorded Attacks, which told of zombie encounters throughout history.
Most well known of Brooks’ work – thanks to a new film starring Brad Pitt – is World War Z, a fictional historical document detailing events following a world wide Zombie outbreak. Check out the official trailer here.
Charlie Higson, a British writer and actor probably most famous for his appearance in The Fast Show, has written his own Zombie series aimed at younger audiences, with a plot involving teenagers immune to an infection that has turned the adult population into walking corpses. Higson has written four of the planned seven novels which are as follows:
- The Enemy (2009)
- The Dead (2010)
- The Fear (2011)
- The Sacrifice (2012)
The Fallen is due to be released in 2013.
David Moody is another British writer who has produced a successful series of Zombie novels. Moody’s Autumn, comprising six books and aimed at adults generated a huge online following when the book could be downloaded for free. Unfortunately Moody’s publishing house Infected Books was shut down after the rights to Autumn were bought by Thomas Dunne Books, putting an end to the free downloads. A low-budget film based on the novel, also entitled Autumn was released in 2009 to mixed reviews. Here are the books from the Autumn series:
- Autumn (2001 – republished 2010)
- Autumn: The City (2003 – republished 2011)
- Autumn: Purification (2004 – republished 2011)
- Autumn: The Human Condition (2005)
- Autumn: Disintegration (2011)
- Autumn: Aftermath (2012)
