The Complete Idiot's Guide to Zombies

by Nathan Robert Brown

The "New Vampire"...

The Complete Idiot's Guides (r) have explored the world of vampires, werewolves, the paranormal, and now the latest book in the "creepy" series is The Complete Idiot's Guide(r) to Zombies .

This book brings the world of zombies chillingly to life-in a manner of speaking-covering everything readers need to know about them. The book

?The voodoo zombie, the viral zombie, and the whole zombie family.

?What zombies and the delicious fear of them say about human psychology.

?Zombies in American in film, from the Romero classics to the Living Dead flicks that are so bad they're good, and in fiction, video games, comics, and more!

?The zombie survival phenomenon-of course they're not real , but that doesn't stop people from having loads of fun pretending they are.

Genres: Zombies, Nonfiction, Horror, Reference, Supernatural

256 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2010

About the author

Nathan Robert Brown (1977-present) is an author, pop culture mythologist, and technical writer from Texas, currently residing in Florida. He received the 2009 Harry Brown Award for 'The Rape of Lilith.' Nathan has done extensive research in world mythology, folklore, urban legends, ancient civilizations, and world religions, and is an expert on trinities/tripartite systems and universal themes in myth, religion, mysticism, and pop culture. He is the author of many books, such as The Complete Idiot's Guide to World Mythology, World Religions at Your Fingertips, The Mythology of Supernatural, and The Mythology of Grimm.

Reviews

[Heather Hay · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is a far more entertaining read than I thought it would be. This is quite possibly one of the best Idiot's guides I have come across. I may just have to buy it to put on my reference shelf.

[Indeya · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great, it's a very comprehensive guide to the undead and their history in popular culture. One of the best things is that it details both "voodoo" zombies and "plague" zombies and how one developed into the other. It's only slightly outdated, which is obvious through the lack of mentions of more recent popular zombie creations such as The Walking Dead, which premiered the same year the book was published.

[Theresa F. · Rating 2 out of 5]

Slightly out of date, The Walking Dead franchise isn't mentioned. The section discussing the origins of the zombie concept was interesting, and there were a few other noteworthy entries. But overall I didn't enjoy the book as much as I thought I might.
Did I like it? It was ok.
Would I reread it? No.
Would I recommend it? Maybe.

[Joel Kleehammer · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book, with the tagline, "everything you need to know about the latest monster craze" was probably an awesome thing when it came out in 2010. If you don't know anything about zombies, maybe it still is. I liked it for what it was, even though I consider myself a zombie enthusiast.

If you want the real deal now, I HIGHLY encourage you to read Matt Mogk's awesome book Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Zombies. I consider it the best book available for collected zombie knowledge.

[Hannah · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is actually a really entertaining book about the history and evolution of the zombie. It has some really interesting philosophical elements to it, and is, for the most part, not what you would expect from a book with this title.

[Annette · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not bad, quite enjoyed reading about the origin of zombies and the different cultural versions that appear in folklore. More than half the book dealt with zombies in various forms of media, which got boring after a while. I ended up skimming a fair amount of the film/book summaries.

[G. Edweird Cheese · Rating 4 out of 5]

pretty good reference book. have me a little bit of info I didn't know, mostly about voodoo. surprised waking dead isn't mentioned at all, even though kirkman is for marvel zombies. overall, pretty good.

[Carma Spence · Rating 5 out of 5]

You can read my review of the book here: http://www.thegenretraveler.com/horro...

[Mauoijenn · Rating 3 out of 5]

Yes. I checked this out.
Yes. I read it.
I especially liked the tid-bit of information about different things.
It was a funny and insightful read.

[Stacy · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you want to learn about the history of zombies in culture, print, and film, then this is the book for you! It also includes helpful hints for surviving a zombie apocalypse.