Zombies! discussion

Let’s play Name that Zombie (Book or Movie)
Hello My Fellow Zombie Freaks. The conversation of "how" the zombie apocalypse happened has come up more then once in our group. I got to thinking, Just how many ways a zombie can be made. Zombie virus, Voodoo, Witchcraft, Alien infestation, Radioactive.. are there any other ways?
So maybe in this thread we can gather up some titles? I imagine this list will be long so I am going to start a thread for each of the ways that I know. If you have a different way, feel free to make a thread.
The point here is to gather up some names of books and movies of each method.
This thread is dedicated to Plague zombies:

Deadly plague

Michael wrote: "Deadly plague"

book or movie? who's the author?

Sorry I was thinking something else so how bout 28 days later Movie

Michael wrote: "Sorry I was thinking something else so how bout 28 days later Movie"

Yup, you got the idea, run with it :) And Thanks for playing :D
If we get enough books in the different types I plan on starting up a listopia for each of them.

Dead hunger by Eric shelman

The Crazies

Although technically most plague/infected stories aren't really zombies. They don't resurrect from the dead.

It's just the storylines end up being very similar because they are really stories about the survivors, not about the entities chasing them down.

I always called the British TV series Survivors a "zombie series without the zombies", because it's basically just the remaining 5% of the population after a deadly plague preying upon each other.

Wait .. I watched the British TV series Survivors.. are you sure there weren't zombies?

When I put thought into making these lists, it was because so many different zombies exist.
You are correct that it does appear that Death .. as in risen from the grave yard .. the voodoo Dr. and necromancer .. was eliminated when the zombie horror writers (and I include Movie Script writers in this) decided it would be more interesting to try a quick conversion without the time delay that a funeral, burial, and voodoo Dr./necromancer require.
Zombies have evolved.. yes, I said that a fictional monster has changed in it's nature. Such a strange thing to say but it's happened and is adding the zest back into the subgenre.

Ok, I see your point. How about a good old Romero night of the Living Dead?

They never did get into the cause for NOTLD...but they were true zombies that had been reanimated after death, not living people with an infection.

Tooth and Nail by Craig DiLouie - the zombie outbreak is started by a plague similar to rabies.

Wayne Simmons' Flu

Craig DiLouie's The Infection

Here's a neat one - zombies are created by a mutated strain of tuberculosis: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Zombie Jim

Here are two zombie virus outbreak tales of the same name

Apocalypse Z



and Apocalypse Z

David Moody's Autumn

A monkey bite leads to a zombie infection in Zombie Takeover

Medical vaccination gone awry in Tufo's Zombie Fallout series

Joe McKinney's Dead City

Plague Town and Plague Nation by Dana Fredsti

Flu by Wayne Simmons
Slow Burn- Zero Day *book 1 by Bobby Adair

what about Terrorist attacks like
Blood, Brains, & Bullets by Sean Leibling
Mace of the Apocalypse by Dan Williams
Trudge: Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse series by Shawn Chesser

Mark Campbell's Degeneration:

Brian Parker's Gnash:

Suzanne Robb's Contaminated:

Steven Davies' Death is Just the Beginning:

John Stearn's Derilium:

Desolation by Travis Simmons

Tammy K. wrote: "Desolation by Travis Simmons"

Hmm. Since there are necromancers involved, I would have said "Voodoo and Witchcraft (sorcery) zombies:".

hmm you might be right but I recall the first lines say something about "before the virus came" location 24 page 7.
I guess I might be posting it here too early?

I just did a search for the word Witch inside the book Desolation, there are five occurrences of the word. I did not look too much into them other then to see that they are there. I do not want to spoil the book for myself as most of them are at pages 113-114

Did you search for Necromancer? It's in the blurb for the book...

Randy wrote: "Did you search for Necromancer? It's in the blurb for the book..."

I didn't find the words necormancy or necormancer but it could be that they spelled it wrong or used another word
Maybe the virus caused the zombies but they were also able to be controlled by the necormancer?
We will see in the buddy read.

Tammy K. wrote: "I didn't find the words necormancy or necormancer but it could be that they spelled it wrong or used another word"

Ahem. You spelled it wrong. :)

Necromancer is in the book 121 times. Virus is there 64 times. And, for those still reading, zombie is there 390 times. :)

One more thing you can do with a Kindle that you can't do with a paperback book!

Randy wrote: "Tammy K. wrote: "I didn't find the words necormancy or necormancer but it could be that they spelled it wrong or used another word"

Ahem. You spelled it wrong. :)

Necromancer is in the book 121 t..."

LOL I told you spelling wasn't my strong suit. :D
But that's why I have friends like you, to help me seem educated.

I am currently watching The Beast Within on Netflix.

http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/701...

I've been hearing a lot of good things about this new movie:

The Battery

I've been trying to decide if I want to wait until it gets to NetFlix, or pay the $3.99 to Amazon to watch it on Instant Video there.

Randy wrote: "I've been hearing a lot of good things about this new movie:

The Battery

I've been trying to decide if I want to wait until it gets to NetFlix, or pay the $3.99 to Amazon to watch it on Instant V..."
Too bad they don't offer a 15 min sample for movies.

Netflix can take a while to get movies.

The Battery does have a trailer on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RAC0u...

On one of the trailers, the verbiage says the movie was filmed in 15 days, on a budget of $6000. So probably volunteers instead of SAG actors. :)

PS: Based on the trailer, I don't think I'll pay $3.99.

Mark Campbell's Desolation:

Glyn wrote: "The Crazies"

would that be the 1973 Romero original or the so-so 2013 remake? more blood and gore does not make for a better film

Flu shot
Vaccination: A Zombie Novel by Phillip Tomasso

Tracey Ward's Until the End

In "Night of the Comet," the Zombie Apocalypse started when the earth ran through the tail of a comet. They never clarified if it was comet-tail radiation or what that caused so many to zombify.

In Stephen King's short story "Home Delivery," aliens build a machine which they place in orbit over the North Pole in order to zombify humanity.

In my own book, "Warmth," zombies are a part of the life cycle of ghouls, who are living flesh-and-blood consuming entities in life after infection (more similar to vampires than zombies), but whom after death reanimate as zombies for the sole biological purpose of spreading the infection: ghouls are only contagious during the zombie phase of their existence.

Sumiko wrote: "In "Night of the Comet," the Zombie Apocalypse started when the earth ran through the tail of a comet. They never clarified if it was comet-tail radiation or what that caused so many to zombify."

The movie, right? I loved that flick - 80's hair and everything!

Zombie Fallout by Mark Tufo. It's an H1N1 zombie :)