Dead Reckoning
by Mercedes Lackey & Rosemary Edghill
Hardcover 2012
Bloomsbury
ISBN: 978-1-59990-684-3
Yet another entry in the subgenre of zombie steampunk westerns.
This is the story of three young people, Jett Gallatin, [Honoria] Gibbons, and White Fox, brought together by circumstances. Each of them is a unique person, traveling on a different quest, and none of them expected to run into zombies in the quiet town of Alsop, Texas.
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Zombies, Gods and Voodoo
by John Winn
© Buzzy Multimedia
They come out of the grave, products of the Devil, witchcraft or experiments gone horribly wrong, stalking us as a hound stalks its prey until no one is immune from their quest for brains or souls. The fear of zombies is so engrained in us that they have been immortalized in movies and popular culture dating back several decades. Yet the reality is zombies-or at least the zombie myth-has been around much longer. In fact, they are said to predate organized religion itself. Though the origin of the zombie myth is as murky as ancient tales of old, scholars and novelists have been mining the depths of recorded knowledge, inspired by the mystery surrounding these strange beings.
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Monster Nation
A Zombie Novel
by David Wellington
Publisher: Running Press
ISBN-10: 1560258667
ISBN-13: 978-1560258667
Alexis de Tocqueville once said that the only thing worse than a tyranny of the minority is a tyranny of the majority. In other words, mob rule. But what does one call a horde of undead descending on the American Heartland, devouring men, women and children and rendering entire governments obsolete? What if the dead aren’t really…dead? Those are just a few of the questions David Wellington poses in his doomsday thriller “Monster Nation”, and while it doesn’t rise to the level of a Steven King novel, the bizarre, surreal wasteland America that Wellington paints is more than a cure for narcolepsy.
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