Twilight of the Living Dead by ~aethercowboy on deviantART
So, I got an e-mail today from Amazon, partly because I bought into the whole Pride and Prejudice and Zombies hype. They said that I might like the book, and I am NOT making this up, The Undead World of Oz, which further recommends Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Zombie Jim.
Now, where did this recent outbreak of remixed zombie literature start? Most would argue P&P&Z, but I think that the roots are much deeper. It's been show that a rise in zombie films is directly proportional to social unrest, but what of a rise in zombie literature? Is it simply the fact that it's essentially costless to rehash a public domain work. Will we get The King James Guide to Zombie Slaying? Maybe Gray's Zombie Anatomy? Alice in Zombieland? I could go on.
I won't.
I blame The Zombie Survival Guide, which has practical advice for wilderness survival, but is disguised as a deadpan comedy book. It gave rise to World War Z, which I suppose opened the floodgates for the shambling undead, arm in arm with your favorite Victorian literary characters.
Fortunately, the co-author of P&P&Z has moved away from zombies, and is venturing into the world
But, what will come next, now that zed is THE undead? Will we have a rise of zombie romances? I mean, we have books like Breathers: A Zombie's Lament, but how soon until we have teen romance, like Twilight of the Living Dead?
EDITED
1. Seth Grahme-Smith did not, in fact, pen the changes to S&S&S. It was Ben H. Winters. The publisher is the same, however.
