Reading and Viewing List for Zombies in Literature

10/29/2008

Readings 

Austen, Jane and Seth Grahme-Smith. Pride, Prejudice and Zombies.
Brooks, Max. World War Z.
Derleth, August. "The House In the Magnolias.” Originally printed in Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror. June, 1932. Reprinted in Stories of the Walking Dead, Peter Haining, editor. London: Severn House, 1985, pp. 141-61.
Ford, Jeffery. "Malthusian's Zombie." Originally published in SCI FICTION, May 2000. Reprinted in The Living Dead, John Joseph Adams, editor. San Francisco: Night Shade Books, 2008.
Guran, Paula, editor. Zombies: The Recent Dead.
Hutter, G. W. "Salt Is not for Slaves," Originally printed in Ghost Stories, 1931. Reprinted in Stories of the Walking Dead, Peter Haining, editor. London: Severen House, 1985, pp. 39-53.
Kirkman, Tony. The Walking Dead, Vol 1
Lindqvist, John Ajvide. Handling the Undead.
Lovecraft, H. P. Herbert West: Re-animator Originally published as “Grewsome Tales” in Home Brew. February-July, 1922. (available as an e-text or in many anthologies you can find in the library.) 
McClusky, Thorp. “While Zombies Walked.” Originally published in Weird Tales. September, 1939. (Reprinted in Stories of the Walking Dead, Peter Haining, editor. London: Severen House, 1985, pp.109-40.
Poe, Edgar Allan. "The Facts In the Case of M. Valdemar." Originally published in American Whig Review, 1854. (Reprinted in The Mammoth Book of Zombies, Stephen Jones, editor. New York: Carroll and Graf, 1993, pp. 78-86.
Sleator, William. The Boy Who Couldn't Die. New York: Amulet, 2004.
Sutton, David. "Clinically Dead." The Mammoth Book of Zombies, Stephen Jones, editor. New York: Carroll and Graf, 1993, pp. 305-17.
Wellman, Manley Wade. “Song of the Slaves.” Originally published in Weird Tales, March, 1940. Reprinted in The Mammoth Book of Zombies, Stephen Jones, editor. New York: Carroll and Graf, 1993, pp. 45-56.

Non-Fiction 

“The Zombie,” June Pulliam in Icons of Horror and the Supernatural, S. T. Joshi, editor. Greenwood Press, 2006. Vol. 2, pp. 723-53.
Seabrook, W. B. "Dead Men Working in the Cane Fields," originally from The Magic Island. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1929. Reprinted in Stories of the Walking Dead, Peter Haining, editor. London: Severen House, 1985, pp. 21-38.
 

Films

28 Days Later. Danny Boyle, Dir. 2002
Bubba Ho-Tep. Don Coscarelli, Dir. 2002
Fido, Andrew Currie, Dir. 2006
I Walked with a Zombie. Jacques Tourneur, Dir. 1943
Land of the Dead, George A. Romero, Dir. 2004.
Night of the Living Dead. George A. Romero, Dir. 1968 
Plague of the Zombies. John Gilling, Dir, 1966
Re-Animator. Stewart Gordon, Dir. 1985 
Shaun of the Dead. Edgar Wright, Dir. 2004 
White Zombie. Victor Halperin, Dir. 1932