THE DEAD TIMES
DEAD ARE COMING...
One of Zombies most admirable characteristics - taking a completely morbid point of view - is their relentless nature, they simply never stop. Zombies never sleep, never eat, never get out of breath, never worry about getting lost or give up when met with a seemingly insurmountable obstacle. Once a Zombie senses prey, it will go after it and not stop until it is dispatched or its prey is dead. In most cases, that prey will - if caught - become a Zombie, turning on former friends.
These two concepts - relentlessness and betrayal (whether willing or not) - are staple themes for Zombie books. Other factors also influence the world of Zombie literature such as deep emotion at the loss of family and friends, forced murders of those you would never dream of killing, conflict between two sides, morality and sometimes even romance. It is not just dark fantasy novels either. Many Zombie books are survival guides teaching you the indispensable techniques required to survive a Zombie outbreak.
As always, different people have vastly different views about published texts. I generally find Zombie books as being free from the boggy muck that plagues other sources of Zombie merchandise but feel free to disagree with me in the comments section for each item. Keep your typings mature and, as far as possible, free from harsh language. Failure to do so will see such comments quarantined, never to become publicly viewable.
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Sgt. Rock Vs. The Army of the Dead | In Berlin, 1944, the Nazi war machine is surrounded on all sides by the Allied forces - defeat seems inevitable. In one final, desperate attempt at victory, Hitler - the leader of the German army - authorises a diabolical scheme to bring fallen Nazi... Click for More |  |
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Cadaver: Book 2 | This second book in the Cadaver series continues the story started by the first. Our hero has now left the hospital which, authorities think, is the epicentre of the Zombie outbreak. Afterall, it was the place the boys who discovered the... Click for More | |
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Dead Among Us | A lone salesman, trapped fifteen-hundred miles from his family, faces an impossible predicament; how to get back home alive now the majority of the world's population have turned into mindless, flesh-hungry Zombies. He has no survival skills and is... Click for More | |
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Cadaver: Book 1 | Two teenagers discover a frozen human body hanging in a small, isolated cabin in the woods. When they bring the corpse back to town for an autopsy, they inadvertently start a chain reaction to a full-blown Zombie apocalypse. As whatever virus this corpse... Click for More | |
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Emergency Broadcast | When an Emergency Broadcast is sent to the citizens of Witherton, no one knows what to believe but the advice it gives is simple; "Lock your doors, cover your windows and avoid making noise. Do not, for any reason, go outside.". For the peaceful townsfolk... Click for More | |
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Wither: A Zombie Novel | Out of nowhere, Zombies appear - the Earth has spat out its dead. Civilization crumbles as the world is plunged into an undead nightmare. People flee, fight, beg, steal, kill - do whatever they have to in order to survive. One family, the Stillengers,... Click for More | |
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Dead Inside: Do Not Enter | A so-called 'super flu' has spread across the entire globe and, even worse, has now mutated causing the dead to re-animate as flesh-hungry Zombies. The treatment facilities are quickly overwhelmed as those infected die and come back, spilling into the... Click for More | |
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My Name Was Nigel: Memoirs of a Killer Zombie | This novel is a first-hand account of the final days of civilization, as seen through the eyes of a Zombie; the one they called Nigel when he was still a living, breathing human (or "Bean" as "Muters", Zombies, refer to them). The tale begins in the early... Click for More | |
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The Dead Walk The Earth II | The Great British mainland has been lost, overrun by the walking dead, sweeping through the land like a plague, destroying civilization, leaving nothing but decaying buildings and rusting vehicles in their ungodly wake. What is left of the human race now... Click for More | |
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Exploited Blood: Book 1: The Onslaught | The world has gone mad. People, average people, are getting infected by some unidentified virus. The world has grown accustomed to diseases rampaging across the globe, causing lockdowns and social distancing but never one as severe as this. Those... Click for More | |
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Crawlerz: Red Sky in the Morning | After months of hype, an ancient tomb is opened, for the first time, on live TV - the archaeological equivalent of Shark Week. However, no one foresaw exactly how apt this reference was, as the horror that is unleashed from the tomb is predatory -... Click for More | |
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Dead Sea | A team of archaeologists are sent on a mission to Russia to investigate a long-lost Cold War-era radar station. However, while there, two of their number come down with an unknown sickness - a disease that makes those infected highly aggressive and hungry... Click for More | No stars | |
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The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks | Throughout history, from the Stone Age right up to the Information Age, the Zombie menace has plagued our lands. This book recounts those bygone tales when the restless dead walked, journeying everywhere the hungry monstrosities were found; on the African... Click for More | |
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Night of the Living Dead '90: The version you've never seen | In 1990, a remake of George A. Romero's classic Zombie movie from 1968, Night of the Living Dead was released. It was directed by Tom Savini and garnered a decent reception, having scores of over 65% on rotten tomatoes (the major international film... Click for More | |
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This Rotten World | An illness is ravaging the world; no one knows where it came from, what to call it or how it spread so quickly, but, before any answers can be found, it arrives in Portland, Oregon. The pathogen has the power to bring any living being it kills back from... Click for More | |
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I, Zombie | This book is not your typically Zombie book; there is no desperate struggle against a Zombie outbreak, no race to find a cure... It is a book about what happens after you've become a Zombie, imagining that the people the Zombies once were are still there,... Click for More | |
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DCeased: Unkillables | You read the story of how the heroes faired during the Zombie apocalypse in DCeased - now it's the turn of the villains! Vandal Savage, an immortal supervillain who has lived for thousands of years, was prepared for the imminent cataclysm and has... Click for More | |
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The Living Dead | One day in America, two medical examiners make a grave discovery; the dead don't stay dead. After that, the plague, disease or whatever this living Hell is that re-animates dead souls, spreads quickly, consuming the entire North-American continent - even... Click for More | |
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Extinction Horizon | Building 8, a top-secret army research site housing the latest developments on a cure for a new strain of Ebola, has gone dark and, fearing an outbreak of the virus, an elite Delta Force team known as Ghost is sent in to secure the area. However, to... Click for More | |
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Faster, Stronger, Deader - Augmented book 1 | Getting augmented was cool - small implants weaved into your body so you could jump higher, think smarter, lift impossible weight, see longer distances... literally anything you ever wanted to do, you could do; assuming you had enough cash to buy the... Click for More | |
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Outpost H311 | Outpost H311 was a top-secret bunker, used by the Nazis for a highly-classified, paranormal experiment, located as far away from civilisation as possible; a remote island in the Arctic circle. When a plane crash lands on the island, the oil exploration... Click for More | |
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DCeased | Cyborg - a cybernetically-enhanced superhero from the DC Universe - has been taken and transported to a Hellish alien world by an evil villain from outer space named Darkseed. Cyborg's body now corrupted, he plays the unwilling host of a technological... Click for More | |
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Zombies: A Brief History of Decay | Zombies have overrun the planet; they outnumber the living in seemingly unstoppable numbers. A few survivors remain, some scattered and alone, others banding together in small groups, desperate to rebuild the civilization which was cruelly ripped from... Click for More | |
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Dead of Night | A heinous serial killer named Homer Gibbons is being executed by lethal injection at a prison near the small township of Stebbins County. However, currently unbeknownst to the outside world, what this evil murderer is being injected with is not the usual... Click for More | |
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Road of the Dead: Highway to Hell | The dead have risen and are driven to feast upon the flesh of the living. However, hope remains as a young female scientist, working for the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), may have found a cure. Biker gangs and other rednecks believe... Click for More | |
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Z. E. D. S. Rising | When the Zombies rose, one group was ready, one group had been preparing for this fateful day for years, that group was the Z. E. D. S. (Zombie Elimination and Defense Squad). Under the leadership of Atlas, the group of makeshift heroes heads out into... Click for More | |
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The Remaining | The world as we know it has been shattered; all but one tenth of the population wiped out by infectious bacteria. Those infected do not die outright, oh no, that would be too easy. Death is the inevitable end but, along the way, the infected become... Click for More | |
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Zombies: Encounters with the Hungry Dead | This truly epic book delves deep into the history of Zombie fiction and mythology, pulling out no fewer than 35 spooktacular, horrifying, dramatic, action-filled and down-right mind-mending tales to keep even the most hard-to-please Zombie lover... Click for More | |
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Nights of the Living Dead | It all started back in 1968 when, relative new-comer, George Romero, brought terror into our hearts for decades to come with his legendary movie, Night of the Living Dead. This was the first outing of the modern Zombie and, ever since, the concept... Click for More | |
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#I'm Zombie | In October 2019, a deadly plague of unknown origin spread across the globe like wildfire, killing those infected within minutes, only to later see them rise up as the living dead. This book is a conglomeration of notes, forum reports and other documents... Click for More | |
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Coldbrook | Hidden deep in the Appalachian Mountains lies a very special building. On the surface, a wire fenced perimeter, flanked by tall hedges, it does not seem that out of the ordinary; it's the underground where the magic happens, and, as it turns out, not the... Click for More | |
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These Dead Lands: Immolation | The undead have risen and are sweeping across the United States of America like rats fleeing a sinking ship. Only a handful of the military division sent to defend New York City survived the merciless wave of dead that descended upon the urban jungle. Led... Click for More | |
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The Dead Walk The Earth | As war rages on, a deadly flu of unknown origin sweeps across the globe, infecting the populace with unholy speed, gripping humanity by the throat and squeezing all life from it - no one is safe. Eight soldiers, treated as expendable by their government... Click for More | |
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Empire of the Dead: Act Three | In the third and final act of George Romero's Humans vs. Vampires vs. Zombies comic marathon, we return to New York City, still gripped under Vampire rule. Questions come thick and fast: Who is kidnapping the city's children? What is the purpose of the... Click for More | |
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Omega Days: Ship of the Dead | This second book in the Omega Days series sees the group of rammed together friends try and storm a crashed aircraft carrier to outrun the virus and its terrible creation - the living dead. Their plan is as horrific as it is brilliant; aircraft carriers,... Click for More | |
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Omega Days | When Zombies, hungry for human flesh, enter the world of the living without warning, it does not take long for civilization to collapse. Initially, panic spreads as the insidious terror sweeps over the cities of mankind. Later, comes a realisation that... Click for More | |
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'68: Scars | Scars is the second issue of the '68 comic series - the fictional account that dares to wonder what else was going on in the nightmarish, Zombie-fuelled world of Night of the Living Dead. The action picks up, right where the first... Click for More | |
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I Am Scrooge: A Zombie Story for Christmas | The legendary Dickensian Christmas tale is given a whole new twist with the addition of Zombies. The miserly Ebenezer Scrooge still sits, counting his money, caring little for the festive period others so enjoy. However, after being visited by an undead... Click for More | |
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'68: Better Run Through the Jungle | In 1968, the dead rose from their graves - we saw them mercilessly assault a farmhouse in the hit movie Night of the Living Dead, but, the question remains, was this an isolated incident or global catastrophe? The '68 comic series tells the story... Click for More | |
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Dead South | In Dead South, for unknown reasons Zombies have started appearing all over London; feasting on the flesh of the living. The city goes into panic and as the government sends out promises that the situation is under control, millions of people watch... Click for More | |
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900 Miles | Flesh-crazed Zombies have begun to rise all over the globe - the government and military fight back but their struggle is doomed to failure as the relentless dead advance through the streets. For John, a business man, trapped in New York, this apocalypse... Click for More | |
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Empire of the Dead: Act Two | Following on from Act One, the Humans vs. Vampires vs. Zombies story continues with five more issues written by the legendary George Romero. New York City - or the still inhabited parts of it - teeters on the edge of chaos. The Vampires who have... Click for More | |
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Apocalypse Z: The Wrath Of The Just | This is the third and final book in the Apocalypse Z saga. The action picks up exactly where Dark Days left off, the same group of survivors - a young Spanish lawyer, the beautiful woman he loves, his cat Lucullus, and the lawyer's brash,... Click for More | |
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Empire of the Dead: Act One | This comic begins in New York City, years after the undead have risen as bloodthirsty Zombies. Quarantine has kept the foul demons at bay, for the most part, allowing survivors to continue civilization on Manhattan Island. However, those hopeful few are... Click for More | |
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Star Wars: Red Harvest | Long ago - decades before any concept of the Rebellion or Empire - a dark Sith Lord known as Darth Scabrous has a fantastic and terrible dream, one he intends to turn into nightmarish reality. Meanwhile, a young Jedi assigned to the Agricultural Corp.,... Click for More | |
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The Afflicted | Evan Crow wakes up looking at the sky. He has no memory of how he got there, where there is and it takes a bit of investigation just to remember his own name. A bit more detective work and he discovers that he is a survivor of a plane crash in Melbourne -... Click for More | |
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Apocalypse Z: Dark Days | This is the follow-up book to the excellent Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End. The Zombie infection has ravaged the entire world, the "safe havens" set up by various governments have fallen, society has crumbled into a lawless "live or die"... Click for More | |
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Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End | An incident in a small province of Russia does not get much attention from the media - dismissed as nothing more than ill-thought-through terrorist activity. However, this insignificant blip is actually the beginning of the end for civilisation. A virus... Click for More | |
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Star Wars: Deathtroopers | Before Luke Skywalker's journey to become a Jedi began, when the Empire was at the height of its power - its reign supreme and exhaustive - the universe was a much darker place. Rebel sympathizers were caught and shipped to Imperial prison camps on... Click for More | |
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Ministry of Zombies: Metahorde | The year 2020 was a good one for the dead. As the undead rose to prey upon the living, the world turned to a chaotic hell as nations betrayed former allies in the battle to survive. NATO forces managed to create safe zones in cities that had intact... Click for More | |
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Zombie CSU: The Forensics of the Living Dead | What would law enforcement do in the beginning of a Zombie uprising? Zombie CSU offers the answer to that question, interspersing the emergency response guide with a healthy dose of humour. Puzzle over scenarios where a Zombie or a group of Zombies... Click for More | |
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FEED | In 2014, the common cold had been cured, cancer was no more, the world was idyllic - unless you counted the hordes of Zombies that the "cure" accidentally unleashed. However, "the Rising", the start of the Zombie plague, did not spell the end for humanity... Click for More | |
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Zombie Survival Guide | The bible of Zombiism and an exhaustive guide to everything you could ever want to know about Zombies. Whether you want to learn about the deadly naturally occurring Zombie-virus called 'Solanum', survive a Zombie apocalypse, defend your home from the... Click for More | |
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The Walking Dead: Compendium One | A cop wakes from a coma to find Zombies roaming the streets. He journeys to Atlanta encountering both the living and the living dead. There he becomes part of a group of survivours and the desperate struggle for life begins. This compendium contains... Click for More | |
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