Horror Aficionados discussion

Hey all!

I am the author of Turning Grace and Escaping Grace, books about a teenage zombie hybrid.

I love anything zombie. For some reason I am just fascinated by the whole reanimation concept.

So I was just curious:
What are some of your favorite zombie novels?

Fiend and Feed!

I listened to "My Life as a White Trash Zombie" as an audiobook freebie. I liked it so much I bought the next two in the series.
Also "The Girl With All the Gifts" was a good audiobook.
I know they aren't hard core zombie, but that's my list.

I am an avid Zombie novels reader. It is one of my favorite sub-genres, if not my favorite one. So far, I woulod say these are the ones that I enjoyed the most in no particular order:

- Apocalypse Z trilogy by Manel Loureiro
- Rot and Ruin series by Jonathan Maberry, including the prequels Death of night and Fall of night
- The Rising by Brian Keene and its sequel, City of dead

Zombies and Shitby Carlton Mellick III

Dead Rain by Joe Augustyn was fun and then there are 2 anthologies I read a long while back called Book of the Dead 1 and 2. The second John Shipp was part of. Both books were really cool. And yeah zombies are so freaky because they are us but they can't be bargained with. And I don't know but the moaning sounds they make are creepy for some reason. Oh and thumbs up for the Mellick title that guy is friggin awesome. Mellick is addictive is such a "bizarre" way :)

E. wrote: "I listened to "My Life as a White Trash Zombie" as an audiobook freebie. I liked it so much I bought the next two in the series.

Hi E. If you like listening to audios, I found this podcast about a year ago called We're Alive. There are 4 seasons that you can find at http://www.werealive.com/episodes/

I found it pretty entertaining because not only are you listening to the story, but you've got sound effects as if you are watching it. It's pretty cool to hear the zombies feasting ;)

Ok now that sounds wicked cool. I will have to check that link out. Is it recorded kind of like Stephen King's The Mist? Like the old radio shows? So, J.Q. Dead Rain might creep you out a bit. Imagine zombies coming at you in a flood, just floating around trying to bite you...freaky huh. Can you imagine if they combined a zombie with the creature from the movie The Thing. A zombie head with spider legs running around trying to bite your legs and feet :o)

Sounds cool J. Q. Thanks

I just added the disks to my wish list on Amazon and my next days off I am going to listen to some more from the site. These CDs would be fun to bring on a camping trip...listen to it around the fire at night :o)

Jorge wrote: "I am an avid Zombie novels reader. It is one of my favorite sub-genres, if not my favorite one. So far, I woulod say these are the ones that I enjoyed the most in no particular order:

- Apocalypse..."

I am definitely going to add those books to my list.

One of my favorite contemporary romance authors is Jamie McGuire. She writes mostly romance, but last year she wrote a zombie novel called Red Hill. It follows four different characters trying to survive a zombie outbreak. It was pretty great.

As much as I love the zombie genre I haven't read that many books on the subject, mostly my love comes from movies.

I quite like Mira Grant's Feed - decidedly young-adult but quite fun. I'm also currently dipping into Darlings of Decay, which is a mostly good anthology so far.

I´m adding that one to my list.

Thanks J.Q.

Maxie wrote: "Anyone else like George Romero's Night Of The Living Dead(1968)? The first independent film about zombies."

Yeah! Romero's movies are a must-watch. I also enjoyed his novelization of Dawn of the Dead:

I really enjoyed Dawn of the Dead. Definitely worth adding to your to-read list if you haven't read it yet.

Beau, I hadn't even realized there was a novel.

I purchased my copy a couple of years ago (I devoured it in two sittings).

ARISEN and the Joshua Guess storyline starting with Victim Zero.

The Reapers are the Angels by Alden Bell

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Try this zombie novel, there's also a sequel book called Exit Kingdom.

Jorge wrote: "I am an avid Zombie novels reader. It is one of my favorite sub-genres, if not my favorite one. So far, I woulod say these are the ones that I enjoyed the most in no particular order:

- Apocalypse..."

Yes, these are good. I will also add these favorites of mine...

Fortress Britain Arisen series by Glynn James and Michael Stephen Fuchs

The Remaining The Remaining series by D.J. Molles

The Tide The Tide series by Anthony J. Melchiorri

Extinction Horizon Extinction series by Nicholas Sansbury Smith

Zero Day Burn series by Bobby Adair