Zombies Don't Read: 25 YA Short Stories

by Rusty Fischer

What could be better than a short story collection containing five YA zombie tales? What could be more awesome than 10 creepy stories of the living dead? What could be cooler than 15 spooky tales of leg shuffling walkers? Would 20 stories be cooler? How about... 25?!?! That's right, Zombies Don't Read contains not five, not 10, not 15, not even 20... but 25 short YA zombie stories, yours for the taking. The stories in this creepy, not-so-little anthology add up to nearly 100,000-words of outright, straight up YA zombie goodness! Zombies may not read, but you can... if you dare!

Genres: Young Adult, Zombies

728 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2010

About the author

Rusty Fischer is the author of several YA supernatural novels, including Zombies Don't Cry, Ushers, Inc., Becca Bloom & the Drumsticks of Doom and Panty Raid @ Zombie High.

Reviews

[Robert Zimmermann · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was my first time reading anything about zombies. I was pleased with it. The first few stories had zombies they were living "side by side" with humans. This was a new possibility to me. The last story in this collection was more of the traditional "zombie outbreak" sort of story. I enjoyed both of the types given here.

I look forward to reading more of Fischer's works. I have his novel "Zombies Don't Cry" sitting on my desk now and I think I might pick it up soon. I'd like to see more of this world with zombies that Fischer has created.

[Netanella · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another great free zombie read by author Rusty Fischer, who again fuses teenage sensibilities with zombie culture. I thought the books might be set in the same zombie universe, but they possibly might not be. In most of the stories, the zombies are an almost-accepted but marginalized part of society - they have jobs, petition to go to school, use the laundromat, flirt with cute high school girls. The last story, however, "Zombies Don't Carve", seemed much more of a traditional zombie story, even if it did start out as a lovely Christmas tale of the cute high school girl bringing her zombie boyfriend home to meet the fam.

Zombies Don't Swim, Zombies Don't Carve, Zombies Don't Kiss & Tell, Zombies Don't Study and Zombies Don't Sleep

A very good read.

[Mehsi · Rating 4 out of 5]

There were some nice stories in here. Some where a bit confusing though and made me go, wait what just happened.

I really liked the last story the most. Instead of zombies doing not so zombie-like, we had real zombies and even some gruesome parts. :)

[Jenn Swanson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good zombie stories.

[Olga · Rating 4 out of 5]

The most romantic zombie stories I ever read.