The Living Dead
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3.8 • 16 Ratings
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- $32.99
Publisher Description
“A horror landmark and a work of gory genius.”—Joe Hill, New York Times bestselling author of The Fireman
New York Times bestselling author Daniel Kraus completes George A. Romero's brand-new masterpiece of zombie horror, the massive novel left unfinished at Romero's death!
George A. Romero invented the modern zombie with Night of the Living Dead, creating a monster that has become a key part of pop culture. Romero often felt hemmed in by the constraints of film-making. To tell the story of the rise of the zombies and the fall of humanity the way it should be told, Romero turned to fiction. Unfortunately, when he died, the story was incomplete.
Enter Daniel Kraus, co-author, with Guillermo del Toro, of the New York Times bestseller The Shape of Water (based on the Academy Award-winning movie) and Trollhunters (which became an Emmy Award-winning series), and author of The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch (an Entertainment Weekly Top 10 Book of the Year). A lifelong Romero fan, Kraus was honored to be asked, by Romero's widow, to complete The Living Dead.
Set in the present day, The Living Dead is an entirely new tale, the story of the zombie plague as George A. Romero wanted to tell it.
It begins with one body.
A pair of medical examiners find themselves battling a dead man who won’t stay dead.
It spreads quickly.
In a Midwestern trailer park, a Black teenage girl and a Muslim immigrant battle newly-risen friends and family. On a US aircraft carrier, living sailors hide from dead ones while a fanatic makes a new religion out of death. At a cable news station, a surviving anchor keeps broadcasting while his undead colleagues try to devour him. In DC, an autistic federal employee charts the outbreak, preserving data for a future that may never come.
Everywhere, people are targeted by both the living and the dead.
We think we know how this story ends.
We. Are. Wrong.
A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books
Customer Reviews
Beware
Just to warn you, the start of this story is the same as one of the stories in Nights Of The Living Dead. Just in case you downloaded both.
Meh
This book had so much potential. i listened to it twice in hopes the second time, i’d pull more good out of it but the opposite happened. They just beat you over the head with the sustained, unrealistic, over the top PC agenda i’ve ever seen in a book. every single situation from start to finish is like the authors were like, how can we make this as unlike and different as real america as we can. good novels can use some of that, but they just beat you over the head with it. and the military jargon was so thoroughly WRONG i could hardly stand it. This navy master chief, called sir by everyone, which you would never do, its “yes master chief” keeps calling a kid, who is supposed to be a “boatswains mate” , an “O-3”…in a derogatory manner like it was a low rank. an O-3 is a lieutenant…who would outrank him. what he means to say is “E-3” which is a low rank…so low he couldnt be a boatswains mate! this might seem small but its the whole book is like that. you don’t salute a chief! and thats nothing to do with these wildly ridiculous progressive PC social situations that are so far fetched they are rediculous. one or two u could swallow but as a whole is stinks. and im am a HUGE romero fan. it has some qualities that make it readable and somewhat enjoyable once…but not twice.
Buy World War Z instead
This audiobook is available to listen to for free on YouTube & it’s definitely not worth the $20. The first half of the story is decent but the second half is just awful. The “current” year identity politics ruined what could have be a solid send off to the Romero Zombie saga.
My advice is to purchase World War Z if you want a more engaging/thought provoking zombie book.