The Inevitable Zombie Apocalypse

A daily roundup of all the undead news that shambles into view… Bookmark the home page or add the RSS feed to your reader for your daily dose of walking dead. Got news tips? E-mail me at cory.casciato[AT]gmail.com.

Get a sneak peek of the graphic novel version of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. (Pop Candy)

Coming May 5 from DC Comics, I, Zombie is an intriguing zombie comic that features a zombie gravedigger/private detective protagonist who has to eat brains once a month and feels compelled to fill the requests she gains access to by doing so. Wacky. (Dread Central)

Get inside the head of Brian Keene, author of The Rising and other zombie novels. (Fangoria)

Some Trekkies got a bit more info on the zombie/Trekkie mashup book Night of the Living Trekkies, due out September 4. (Trek Today)

New Jersey gets Monster Mania from March 12 through 14. It’s a convention chock full of zombie-esque guests including Thom Mathews (Return of the Living Dead), Bruce Abbott (Re-Animator) and Bill Moseley (Night of the Living Dead 1990) among many more. Get the deets on Dread Central’s involvement, or head straight to the con’s website. (Dread Central)

Everyone’s making a zombie movie these days. Read all about one student at an art school in Kansas City, Missouri and her zombie film project. (Louisburg Herald)

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The University of Tulsa is turning March 24 through April 1 into Zombie Apocalypse Week. Events include a session to brainstorm ways to protect the campus in case of zombie outbreak, a zombie-preparedness training session with a Red Cross instructor, a LAN party, movie marathon and more. (The Collegian)

Need to blend in with the undead masses in post-apocalyptic zombie USA? You’ll want to start by learning the language apparently and naturally, there’s a book to teach you how: How to Speak Zombie. (January Magazine)

Two self-proclaimed “horror nerds” debate the merits of Night of the Creeps in video embedded for you below. Or visit Horror Squad for a little background and a disclaimer before watching it. (Horror Squad)

The great science fiction blog io9 reports that there’s a really, really weird sci-fi story about “quantum zombies” in the latest issue of Rudy Rucker’s webzine Flurb. (io9)

There’s a Resident Evil clone game coming for iPhone called Zombie Infection. (Kotaku)

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The American Quarantine was a shot-for-shot remake of the Spanish REC. Despite this, the sequel Quarantine 2 will have nothing to do with REC 2. I believe we’d already heard this, but it seems more official now. Also, Q2 will reportedly be penned by John Pogue (U.S. Marshals, Ghost Ship), will take place in an airport and looks to be headed for a direct-to-DVD release. (Shock Till You Drop)

The sequel to last year’s young-adult, post-apocalyptic zombie tale The Forest of Hands and Teeth (review here) is called The Dead Tossed Waves and it hits stores today. Author Carrie Ryan talks about it, and more, to her hometown paper. (Charlotte Observer)

A new anthology of zombie short stories called The Living Dead 2 is coming out this September, with contributions from Max Brooks, Robert Kirkman and David Wellington, among others. (John Joseph Adams)

If you’re getting hyped about the new zombie-starring cartoon Ugly Americans, debuting on Comedy Central March 17, this PDF guide to its world will probably entertain you. (Comedy Central)

Tired of shooting at Nazi zombies in your video games? Try shooting at some in the real world. (Kotaku)

Some people who are really into MMORPGs compiled a list of six things they’d really like to see in a zombie MMORPG. (MMORPG)

Kill zombies! Irritate the living shit out of your Twitter followers and lose them by the handful! It’s Tweet Defense, a game that utilizes your twitter activity to power your zombie-killing ability. (Kotaku)

If you’re in or near Belleville, Canada (sorry, can’t be more specific, my knowledge of Canadian geography is woefully inadequate), you can dress up as a zombie (or other monster) and march to support cancer research this July 17. (The Intelligencer)

Alternately, if you’re in or near Louisville, Kentucky, you can sign up to get in on the March 25 meetup of future survivors of the zombie apocalypse. (Palmyran Rebels)

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The mashup trend takes a hard left into total nerdom with Night of the Living Trekkies, a book about a group of hardcore Star Trek fans facing the zombie apocalypse. (The Independent)

Left 4 Dead and its sequel are both coming to the Mac platform. (Left 4 Dead Blog)

There’s just not enough theater centered on zombies. A Toronto play called Dead End is thus a welcome ray of light in the darkness. (The Strand)

If reading a whole book is just too hard, perhaps this cartoon-pictorial guide to surviving the zombie apocalypse is more your speed. (Ned Hardy)

Some thoughts on the ongoing zombie invasion of the iPhone platform, much of which is generalizable to the pop-culture/media world at large. (Macworld)

In the realm of very specific zombie tips, how about this list of house plants you’ll want to cultivate in the case of zombie apocalypse? (Plants Are the Strangest People)

Practice your zombie-killing skills and win serious apocalypse cred/bragging rights in Cheaper Than Dirt’s latest contest (note: this contest requires/uses real guns). (Cheaper Than Dirt)

The case to change Valentine’s Day to Zombie Awareness Day. (The Hawk Eye)

It doesn't get any better than this

There’s never been a better time for zombies — or, more to the point, for fans of zombies.

Everywhere you look, the zombie is making its mark. Not only do fans have a deep and varied back catalogue of great works to choose from, most of it easily available to anyone with the interest and a decent Internet connection, but the walking dead are the subject of of some of the best books, movies, video games and Internet sites being made. We are, at this very moment, living in the midst of the zombie renaissance.

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George A. Romero’s Survival of the Dead is coming to various VOD services April 30 and theaters May 28, but the you can see a spiffy new poster for it today. (Bloody Disgusting)

If, like me, you’ve long thought that a plush zombie doll is what you need to truly complete your life, then you’ll be thrilled at the chance to win one in this contest sponsored by an upcoming game called Zombie Fortress.

Over at Kotaku, they try to define zombies in the course of asking “where did all the real zombies go?” and manage to restrict “real zombie” to an incredibly narrow and short-sighted yet still totally inconsistent subset. Lame. (Kotaku)

J.P. Moore’s Toothless, a zombie apocalypse tale set in the 12th century, has found a publisher. Look for it to come out from Dragon Moon Press early next year. (A World on Fire)

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A hot zombie woman appears on a reality show with a yeti, a tranny werewolf and a Filipino vampire with a detachable head in Battle of the Network Zombies, a novel from Mark Henry. Oh, and it’s a murder mystery. Color me intrigued… (Cherie Priest)

Comedy Central’s new animated series Ugly Americans features supernatural creatures trying to integrate into life in NYC and one of the main characters is a  zombie. It premieres March 17 at 10:30 p.m. (Horror Squad)

Bloody Disgusting has some images and details on the upcoming drug-induced Rage-zombie apocalypse film The Devil’s Playground. (Bloody Disgusting)

The upcoming zombie flick Beverly Lane features a magician, a mime, some clowns and other sideshow attractions trapped with some office workers by an outbreak of zombies. (Dread Central)

Apparently L. Ron Hubbard wrote a zombie noir novel back in the day (1934 to be exact) called Dead Men Kill and it’s being reissued. If old L. Ron wasn’t such a terrible writer, this might be intriguing. (Fangoria)

Go behind the scenes of The Love of the Dead, a short film about a man trying to keep his love alive with an undead girlfriend. (Yale Daily News)

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Fans of author Brian Keene (The Rising, City of the Dead) will be overjoyed to know he is working on a comic series called The Last Zombie, which the author calls “Damnation Alley meets The Stand and Mad Max in the aftermath of The Walking Dead.” (Broken Frontier)

The Nazi zombie comedy Dead Snow comes to DVD and Blu-ray February 23 with plenty of special features — behind the scenes stuff, make-up featurette, outtakes and more. (28 Days Later Analysis)

Some funky performance-enhancing drugs trigger a Rage-zombie apocalypse in Devil’s Playground, an upcoming feature-length zombie film from first-time director Mark McQueen. (Quiet Earth)

The UK gets Zombieland on DVD and Blu-ray March 15. (Dread Central)

Lawyers face zombies in Killable Hours and we get a look at typical small-town life during the zombie apocalypse in Gravesend, two new Australian pulp novellas. (Buy Zombie)

Australians, head down to the ACMI (Australian Centre for the Moving Image) on February 25 in Melbourne for Dead Set: Zombie TV, a look at the zombie on screen. (ACMI)

Reefer madness gets updated for a whole new generation in Night of the Living Heads, a pot comedy/horror movie about weed that turns its users into zombies. There’s a trailer below. (Bloody Disgusting)

Can a troubled marriage survive in the midst of the zombie apocalypse? That’s the question posed in Married with Zombies, an upcoming novel from Orbit Books. (Hayes Hudson’s House of Horror)

Zombie stories with a queer angle (in other words, LGBT themes, characters, etc.) will be the focus of Zombiality: A Queer Bent on the Undead, an upcoming anthology from Library of the Living Dead press. Aspiring authors, they’re taking submissions until June 27. (Library of the Living Dead forum)

Deliver booze, ammo and pizza in Zombie Killer Pizza, a card game that puts you into the role of a delivery driver for the last pizza joint on Earth. It’s currently in playtesting. (Shoestring Theory)

Live out your zombie apocalypse fantasies via the medium of Airsoft guns (think BB guns with plastic ammo) March 27-28 at Zombie Madness 4 in Colorado Springs. It’s a game where you seek out the source of infection and attempt to contain the virus. Man, I may have to go to this. (Colorado Airsoft)

You can now get the website Zombie Command in convenient iPhone App form! (Zombie Command)

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George A. Romero’s Survival of the Dead will get feature coverage and be featured on the cover in the April issue of Fangoria. (A World on Fire)

As the blogger who posted this notes, the timing may be in awfully poor taste given the recalls, but hey: Toyota has an ad featuring zombies! (Jalopnik)

Writer A. M. Esmonde has a forthcoming book/screenplay called Deathwatch, about a community beset by the undead trying to stop them and solve the mystery of whence they came. Zombie Command has more details and a preview of the intro and first chapter. (Zombie Command)

UK-based zombie fans will get the Ken Foree-starring, Serbian-made Apocalypse of the Dead (formerly known as Zone of the Dead) on DVD and VOD March 1. No word yet on a US release. (Horror Society)

If unlocking a “classic camera” mode in Resident Evil 5’s latest DLC sounds like fun, Kotaku will tell you how and show you some screenshots of what it looks like. (Kotaku)

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If a convention with a screening of George A. Romero’s Survival of the Dead sounds like fun, get thee to Irving/Lewisville, Texas (I have no idea where that is either) April 28 through May 1 for the Texas Frightmare Weekend Film Festival. More films to be announced soon. (Dread Central)

On the other hand, if a convention with guest Tom Savini and a Night of the Living Dead reunion sounds like fun, get thee to Indianapolis, Indiana July 9-11 for the Famous Monsters convention. (Horror Squad)

The new UK super-deluxe Blu-ray release of Day of the Dead is coming with a 24-page comic recounting the origins of Bub the zombie. Have a look at this preview, which looks fantastic. (Dread Central)

The novel version of author Timothy W. Long’s  The Zombie Wilson Diaries, chronicling the experience of one man shipwrecked on a deserted island and his female zombie companion, is now available.

More info about the Zombie Combat Manual for you, in case handing out an ass-whupping to a zombie sounds like a good idea to you. (A World on Fire)