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Lists of books, many of which received at least one starred review (indicating a work of unusual merit) from the following review sources: Booklist , Publisher's Weekly (PW), Kirkus and Library Journal (LJ). Additional titles of interest may be included on the lists. Titles are generally listed alphabetically by author.
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Zombies
Page Modified: August 19, 2008
All sorts of zombies spring to life in these books . . .
Annotations are from Advance, the Ingram Book Magazine, unless noted.
- Zombie Lover
Author: Anthony, Piers
Publisher: Tor $ 23.95 ISBN: 0312866909 Date: 1998
A ghoulishly delightful Xanth escapade from the master of mischievous merriment. Brianna, a beautiful, brassy young black girl has a distressing dilemma: she has unwittingly attracted the affections of King Xeth, ruler of Xanth's zombies, who yearns to make her Queen of the Undead!
Updated 8.7.06 - Damnation Game
Author: Barker, Clive
Publisher: Putnam $ 18.95 ISBN: 0399132783 Date: 1987
Barker invites readers into a nightworld where decomposing corpse-assassins stalk their prey. Marty Strauss, the bodyguard to a famous industrialist, discovers that someone is coming to collect the soul of his employer as payment for an ancient debt.
Updated 8.7.06 - Are You Loathsome Tonight?A Collection of Short Stories
Author: Brite, Poppy Z.
Publisher: Gauntlet $ 50 ISBN: 1887368167 Date: 1998
This collection by Poppy Z. Brite, author of Exquisite Corpse and Love in Vein, among others, features anew story, "Monday's Special."
Updated 8.7.06 - World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
Author: Brooks, Max
Publisher: Crown $ 24.95 ISBN: 0307346609 Date: 2006
Kirkus
The Studs Terkel of the Zombie War, Max Brooks, author of The Zombie Survival Guide, puts a human face on the suffering that occurred during the horrible hostilities, interviewing civilians, soldiers, politicians, and others, in this stunning book compiled shortly after the conclusion of the epic ten-year conflict.
Updated 6.28.06 - The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead
Author: Brooks, Max
Publisher: Three Rivers $ 13.95 ISBN: 1400049628 Date: 2003
Fully illustrated and exhaustively comprehensive, The Zombie Survival Guide is one's key to survival against the hordes of undead who may be stalking thestreets right now.
Updated 8.7.06 - Night of the Seventh Darkness
Author: Easterman, Daniel
Publisher: HarperCollins $23 ISBN: 0060179287 Date: 1991
A Brooklyn cop takes on the case of a lifetime when a beautiful Haitian woman reveals a tale of voodoo, ancient rituals, and murder in this exotic new thriller by acclaimed author Daniel Easterman.
Updated 8.7.06 - The Laughing Corpse
Author: Hamilton, Laurell K.
Publisher: Berkley $ 22.95 ISBN: 0425192008 Date: 2003
Now in hardcover, with a new Afterword by the author, The Laughing Corpse finds Anita Blake crossing paths with a creature from beyond the grave, a super-powerful zombie who is tearing a swath of murder through the city.
Updated 8.7.06 - Already Dead
Author: Huston, Charlie
Publisher: Del Rey $ 12.95 ISBN: 034547824X Date: 2005
PW
The daughter of a prominent New York family is missing, and her Vampyre fascination makes Joe Pitt--private detective and Vampyre--the man for this most dangerous job.
Updated 8.7.06 - City of the Dead
Author: Keene, Brian
Publisher: Leisure Books $ 6.99 ISBN: 0843954159 Date: 2005
This sequel to the Bram Stoker Award-winning The Rising continues the story of what happens after a plague turns nearly all of America's population into zombies.
Updated 8.7.06 - The Rising
Author: Keene, Brian
Publisher: Leisure $ 6.99 ISBN: 0843952016 Date: 2004
From the Bram Stoker Award-winning author comes this thriller about a man who embarks on a cross-country trip to save his son after a plague turns nearly all of America's population into zombies.
Updated 8.7.06 - Cell
Author: King, Stephen
Publisher: Scribner $ 26.95 ISBN: 0743292332 Date: 2006
Booklist Kirkus
Civilization doesn't end with a bang or a whimper. It ends with a call on your cell phone. What happens on the afternoon of October 1 came to be known as the Pulse, a signal sent though every operating cell phone that turns its user into something...well, something less than human. Savage, murderous, unthinking-and on a wanton rampage. Terrorist act? Cyber prank gone haywire? It really doesn't matter, not to the people who avoided the technological attack. What matters to them is surviving the aftermath. Before long a band of them-"normies" is how they think of themselves-have gathered on the grounds of Gaiten Academy, where the headmaster and one remaining student have something awesome and terrifying to show them on the school's moonlit soccer field. Clearly there can be no escape. The only option is to take them on.
Updated 1.25.06 - Beserk
Author: Leebron, Tim
Publisher: Leisure $ 6.99 ISBN: 0843954302 Date: 2006
From the acclaimed, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Nature of Balance comes another exercise in terror. A father's search for the truth about his son's death leads him to a mass grave filled with inhuman, headless skeletons--all of them in chains
Updated 8.7.06 - Habeas Campu: Angela Matelli
Author: Lee, W.W.
Publisher: Minotaur $ 22.95 ISBN: 031226139X Date: 2002
Angela Matelli grew up in a large Italian family in East Boston and spent years in the U.S. Marine Corps. Now a private investigator in Boston, she discovers a sudden death and voodoo warnings at an Ivy League school in Vermont.
Updated 8.7.06 - Magic for Beginners
Author: Link, Kelly
Publisher: Small Beer $ 24 ISBN: 1931520151 Date: 2005
PW
Cult favorite Kelly Link unfurls a second engaging, funny, and magical selection of stories, with riffs on marriage, cannons, convenience stories, superheroes, zombies, and apocalyptic poker parties.
Suggested Reading: Speculative Fiction for the Reluctant | Adult Books for Teens
Updated 6.6.05 - The Walking
Author: Little, Bentley
Publisher: Signet $ 6.99 (paper) ISBN: 0451201744 Date: 2000
PW
Across the country, the dead have risen and they're on a mission. No one knows why they are walking or where they are going and no one can stop them. The Bram Stoker Award-winning writer and author of The Store, The Ignored, and The Town is "a master of the macabre" (Stephen King).
Suggested Reading: Scary Stars - Gil's All Fright Diner
Author: Martinez, A. Lee
Publisher: Tor $ 24.95 ISBN: 0765311437 Date: 2005
PW
Bloodier than Fried Green Tomatoes! Funnier than The Texas Chainsaw Massacre! Welcome to Gil's All Night Diner, where zombie attacks are a regular occurrence and you never know what might be lurking in the freezer . . . - Publisher Marketing.
Suggested Reading: Contemporary Fantasy Stars | Adult Books for Teens | Zombies
Updated 3.21.05 - On Stranger Tides
Author: Powers, Tim
Publisher: Ace $ 16.95 ISBN: 0441626831 Date: 1987
Jack Shandy, bookkeeper and puppeteer, is the least likely man to get mixed up with pirates. Yet, on his way to seek revenge against his rich uncle for cheating his now-dead father of an inheritance, he is kidnapped by zombie pirates and taken into adventures, misadventures and lands filled with voodoo.
Updated 8.7.06 - Dating Secrets of the Dead
Author: Prill, David
Publisher: Subterranean $ 35 ISBN: 1931081603 Date: 2002
"Horror and fantasy fans who appreciate a clever mixture of humor and nostalgia with chills will be gratified by Prill's work." - Booklist
Updated 8.7.06 - Voodoo Dreams: A Novel of Marie Laveau
Author: Rhodes, Jewell Parker
Publisher: St Martins $ 22.95 ISBN: 0312098693 Date: 1993
An exciting new African American writer debuts with this fictionalized life of New Orleans' famous voodooienne. Based on a real figure in 19th-century New Orleans whom some called a devil and others a saint, this mesmerizing novel conjures up the flesh-and-blood woman behind the legend of Marie Laveau.
Updated 8.7.06 - Voodoo Season: A Marie Laveau Mystery
Author: Rhodes, Jewell Parker
Publisher: Atria $ 24 ISBN: 0743483278 Date: 2005
Award-winning author Rhodes returns with this luminous sequel to her critically acclaimed debut Voodoo Dreams. As Marie Levant begins her medical residency in New Orleans's Charity
Updated 8.7.06 - Zombie Jam
Author: Schow, David
Publisher: Subterranean $ 40ISBN: 1931081778 Date: 2003
Zombie Jam is a festival of the living dead, featuring Schow's previously uncollected short fiction from zombie anthologies near and far, including the elusive pseudonymous works of alter ego Chan McConnell. - Publisher Marketing
Updated 8.7.06 - Darker Angels
Author: Somtow, S.P.
Publisher: Tor $ 24.95 ISBN:0312859317 Date: 1998
Based on an acclaimed short story that was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award, Darker Angels takes the reader from the bloodstained battlefields of Virginia to the slave auctions of Haiti. Walt Whitman, Abraham Lincoln, Lord Byron, and Marie Leveau, the legendary voodoo queen of New Orleans, all have a part to play in the epic tale of a mysterious, one-eyed shaman who dares to raise the dead from the battlefields of the Civil War.
Updated 8.7.06 - Dead West
Author: Spears, Rick
Publisher: Gigantic Graphic Novels $ 14.95 ISBN: 0976303817 Date: 2005
Dead West combines the best of two genres, zombie horror movies and westerns, to create an all-new manga adventure. During America's westward expansion, a small Indian village was wiped out to make way for the town of Lazarus. Only one Indian, a child, survived, and years later he returns to Lazarus to claim revenge, placing a curse on the town. Soon, the dead have risen from their graves and a mob of zombies is ransacking Lazarus. While the sheriff and cowboys fight the undead, a bounty hunter slips into town looking for a fugitive. Instead, he comes upon a pregnant whore and reluctantly becomes her protector against the zombie onslaught. The bounty hunter is a dangerous man and the sheriff and cowboys are armed to the teeth, but it may not be enough to stop the Indian's curse. Featuring beautiful illustrations and sharp prose by the award-nominated duo of Rick Spears and Rob G. Dead West delivers high-impact heart-throbbing action. - Publisher Marketing
Updated 8.7.06 - Necropolis
Author: Waggoner,Tim
Publisher: Five Star $ 25.95 ISBN: 1594141401Date: 2004
From author Tim Waggoner comes a novel featuring a home for all of those creatures that go bump in the night . . . Centuries ago, when Earth's Darkfolk -- vampires, werewolves, witches and other creatures -- were threatened by humanity, they departed our planet's dimension and journeyed to a shadowy realm, where they built the great city of Necropolis. Matthew Adrion is an Earth cop who came through a portal to Necropolis on a case, died, and was resurrected as a zombie. Unable to return home, he works as a private investigator on the very mean streets of this shadowy, dark city.
Updated 8.7.06 - Monster Island
Author: Wellington, David
Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press $ 13.95 ISBN: 1560258500 Date: 2006
It's one month after a global disaster and the world has fallen to the shambling zombie masses. In New York City, the walking dead are driven by an insatiable hunger. One among the mindless zombies has retained his human intelligence and becomes an eyewitness to the end of the world.
Updated 8.7.06 - Monster Nation
Author: Wellington, David
Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press $ 13.95 ISBN: 1560258667Date: 2006
In the heart of America, in the world's most secure prison, something horrible is growing in the dark. A wave of cannibalism and fear is sweeping across the heartland, spreading carnage and infection in its wake. Captain Bannerman Clark of the National Guard has been tasked with an impossible mission: discover what is happening--and then stop it before it annihilates Los Angeles.
Updated 8.7.06 - Black Pockets And Other Dark Thoughts
Author: Zebrowski, George
Publisher: Golden Gryphon $ 24.95 ISBN: 1930846401 Date: 2006
PW
This collection of 19 horror stories, culled from the career of a writer best known for his literary science fiction, explores horror as a product of the human mind by allowing personal, political, and metaphysical obsessions to unleash terrors that beset these characters and by refusing to rely on genre-typical terrors such as serial killers and ancient curses. - Publisher Marketing
Updated 3.16.06 - The Death Collector
Author: Richards, Justin
Publisher: Bloomsbury $ 16.95 ISBN: 1582347212 Date: 2006
Kirkus
What starts as an ordinary pick-pocketing incident in Victorian London unites three teens against a madman. Eddie is the pickpocket; George is an assistant at the British Museum; Elizabeth has a nose for trouble--and all of them are being hunted by sinister factory owner Augustus Lorimore.
Ages: 12-17
Updated 8.28.06 - The Boy Who Wouldn't Die
Author: Sleator, William
Publisher: Abrahms $16.95 ISBN: 0810948249 Date: 2004
Sixteen-year-old Ken loses his best friend in a plane crash and now he wants to be invulnerable. He finds a psychic who claims she can make him immortal for $50--if he will give up his soul. Ken agrees, but soon realizes that the psychic may be exacting a more sinister payment
Ages: 12-17
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