Zombie Recommendations Roundup
In the author interviews here on the site, many of the contributors to The Living Dead named their favorite works of zombie fiction and film. Here’s a roundup of all their suggestions, as well as some things mentioned by me in the introduction and header notes of the anthology.
Note that this isn’t attempting to be a comprehensive list of all that is good in zombie fiction, it’s just what the authors mentioned as their favorites.
So what’s missing from it? What are your favorite zombie books, stories, or films?
Movies
CEMETERY MAN (a/k/a DELAMORTE DELAMORE)
CHILDREN SHOULDN’T PLAY WITH DEAD THINGS
INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1956)
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968)
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1990)
Books
CELL by Stephen King
CITY OF THE DEAD by Brian Keene
DEAD IN THE WEST by Joe R. Lansdale
DEAD SEA by Brian Keene
GOSPEL OF THE LIVING DEAD by Kim Paffenroth (non-fiction)
I AM LEGEND by Richard Matheson
THE KEEPER by Sarah Langan
MARVEL ZOMBIES by Robert Kirkman (graphic novel series)
THE MISSING by Sarah Langan
MONSTER ISLAND by David Wellington
MONSTER NATION by David Wellington
MONSTER PLANET by David Wellington
THE ORPHEUS PROCESS by Daniel H. Gower
PET SEMATARY by Stephen King
THE RISING by Brian Keene
THE WALKING DEAD by Robert Kirkman (graphic novel series)
WORLD WAR Z by Max Brooks
Short Stories*
“Eat Me” by Robert R. McCammon
“The Hortlak” by Kelly Link
“Jerry’s Kids Meet Wormboy” by David J. Schow
“On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert with Dead Folks” by Joe R. Lansdale
“Pillar of Fire” by Ray Bradbury
“A Plague on Both Your Houses” (a playlet) by Scott Edelman
*Excluding stories that appear in The Living Dead
Anthologies
BOOK OF THE DEAD edited by John Skipp & Craig Spector
STILL DEAD edited by John Skipp & Craig Spector
MONDO ZOMBIE edited by John Skipp
THE BOOK OF ALL FLESH edited by James Lowder
THE BOOK OF MORE FLESH edited by James Lowder
THE BOOK OF FINAL FLESH edited by James Lowder
CONFEDERACY OF THE DEAD edited Richard Gilliam, Martin H. Greenberg, and Edward E. Kramer
Single-Author Collections
AMERICAN ZOMBIE by Douglas E. Winter
ZOMBIE JAM by David J. Schow
Video Games