Talk:List of zombie novels

Suggested Inclusions

Castle Roogna by Piers Anthony is the first of many Xanth novels to prominently feature Zombies. Is there any reason these would be excluded? Dennis M. Myers (talk) 15:26, 18 April 2014 (UTC)

I Am Legend should be included. JoelDick (talk) 03:56, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

Table format

I know that the way the table is set up so that when you click on a part of the TOC it will go to the beginning of that letter, but for those letters that have nothing listed under them, it makes the table look bad with the random darkers lines appearing. Is there another way to format the table to avoid that? Zombie Hunter Smurf (talk) 17:17, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

Rename

Since its not just novels that are listed here how about renaming the aritcle "List of zombie fiction"? Zombie Hunter Smurf (talk) 15:42, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

Removed to talk

Due to the ongoing AFD, I removing books which I can not readily find sources for.

The Reason to Remove?

Have you looked on Google, Amazon, etc., lately? Many are listed and I actually even have several of the physical books in my possession that were in fact published by numerous authors.

Are they being removed because they are not current in publication, not "worthy" of some sort of definition of such, or mistakenly removed because the editor thought they were never published?

Name	Author	Year	Description
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Zombie Jim	Twain, Mark; W. Bill Czolgosz	2009	Zombies and their relationship to slavery are examined in this classic story rewrite.
Aftermath of the Dead	Smith, Gregory	2005.1	In St. Louis, a chemical is released which causes the dead to rise and destroy the living.
After Twilight: Walking with the Dead	Adkins, Travis	2008	Trained to outmaneuver the undead, teams perform reconnaissance missions in outer towns to stock Eastpointe with much needed goods...
Afraid	Kilborn, Jack	2009	Five government-sponsored Red-ops fighters, psychotic torturers with modified brains and extensive training in killing anyone in their way, have been accidentally assigned to a mission in small, sleepy Safe Haven.
Apocalypse End: Reign of the Dead	Barnhart, Len	2004	Sequel. Man in compound after apocalypse goes in search of new survivors.
As The World Dies: The First Days: A Zombie Trilogy	Frater, Rhiannon	2008	Two women flee into the Texas Hill Country to escape zombies.
As The World Dies: Fighting to Survive: A Zombie Trilogy	Frater, Rhiannon	2009	Jenni and Katie become stable figures in a community of survivors.
As The World Dies: Siege: A Zombie Trilogy	Frater, Rhiannon	2009	The fort comes under attack by both zombies and fellow humankind.
Autumn	Moody, David	2005	Disease immediately kills most of the worlds population. Later, a third of the dead begin to walk again. Book 1
Autumn: Disintegration	Moody, David	2008
Autumn: Purification	Moody, David	2005	Survivors of a fatal disease and zombie apocalypse are trapped in underground military base. During military excursion above survivors flee. Book 3
Autumn:The City	Moody, David	2005	Survivors of a fatal disease and zombie apocalypse find a company of soldiers. Book 2
Autumn: The Human Condition	Moody, David	2005	Individual stories of survivors after the fatal disease and rise of the zombies.
Axiom-man Episode 1: The Dead Land	Fuchs, A.P.	2008	Super hero, in search of lost boy, finds a doorway to a world of undead.
Berserk	Lebbon, Tim	2006	English military experiment goes awry. The government buries the bodies. Ten years later the bodies are exhumed and an animated little girl appears.
Bits of the Dead	Gouveia, Keith	2008	Zombie anthology
Blood of the Dead (Undead World Trilogy)	Fuchs, A.P.	2008	An action-packed survivor horror zombie novel.
Book of All Flesh	Lowder, James	2001	Zombie anthology
Book of Final Flesh	Lowder, James	2003	Zombie anthology
Book Of More Flesh	Lowder, James	2003	Zombie anthology
Book of the Dead	Skipp, John and Spector, Craig	1989	Anthology of horror stories
Book of the Dead	Giangregorio, Anthony	2009	Zombie anthology.
Breeze Horror	Caponegro, Candace	1988	The space shuttle explodes in orbit while it is carrying a load of toxic waste, causing toxic rain to fall across the world killing billions. Some victims exposed to the rain turn into zombies.
Chronicles of the Apocalypse: Species	McBride, Michael	2007	Second book in the series. Survivors discover way to destroy the Alien Organisms that infect the bodies of the dead. Survivors will have to return to Denver, and the city is infested with millions of undead.
Day by Day Armageddon	Bourne, J. L., Travis Adkins, and Z. A. Recht	2007	Handwritten journal of survivor of zombie apocalypse.
The Dead	Rogers, Mark E.	2001	Biblical apocalypse. Leading the possessed corpses is Legion, the demon encountered by Christ.
Dead City	McKinney, Joe	2006	San Antonio police officer attempts to reach wife during zombie apocalypse.
Dead City	Giangregorio, Anthony	2007	Zombie apocalypse survivors stumble upon an abandoned shopping mall. Deadwater series - Book 3
Dead End	Giangregorio, Anthony	2007	Zombie apocalypse survivors battle with cannibals, psychotic preachers and rapists.
Dead Harvest	Giangregorio, Anthony	2008	Deadwater series - Book 5
Dead Men (and Women) Walking	Dawson, Julie Ann	2006	Anthology of zombie and vampire stories
Dead Mourning	Giangregorio, Anthony	2008	Survivors held up in a zoo but there is a serial killer among them.
Dead Rage	Giangregorio, Anthony	2007
Dead Rain	Giangregorio, Anthony	2007	Deadwater series - Book 2
Dead Wave	Giangregorio, Anthony	2007	Rains change people into zombies. Criminal attempts to create an empire of former America . Deadwater series - Book 4
Dead Shall Inherit the Earth	Churchill, Vince	2002	Science fiction
Deadfall	Giangregorio, Anthony	2007
Deadfreeze	Giangregorio, Anthony	2007
The Dead Walk Diaries	Young, Joe	2007	A countless number of people were killed only to rise again as the walking dead. This collection of diaries are the first-hand accounts from people that witnessed what happened and describe in their own words what they experienced.
Dead Walk Diaries: Night	Young, Joe	2007	A collection of diaries from different people written the first night of a zombie outbreak.
Deadwater	Giangregorio, Anthony	2006	Chemical spill in a town's water supply causes zombies. Survivors must get past zombies and military. Deadwater series - Book 1
Down the Road: A Zombie Horror Story	Ibarra, Bowie	2006	A violent zombie tale
Dying to Live: Life Sentence	Paffenroth, Kim	2008	Twelve years later the community of survivors has reclaimed more of the city...
Empire	Dunwoody, David	2008	It's the undead versus death itself as the Grim Reaper wages war against the endless swarms of flesh hungry zombies
Erebus	Hutson, Shaun	2003
Eden	Arlin, Tommmy	2008	A small band of desperate men and women stand their ground in a fortified compound in what had been Queens, New York. They've named their sanctuary Eden.
Every Sigh, the End	Hornsby, Jason S.	2007	On New Year's Eve 1999, a young misanthrope finds himself the star and victim of a bizarre reality TV series featuring zombies, time travel, and the Apocalypse.
Eve of the Dead	Tucker, Nathan	2007	After the dead rise, a small group of survivors from the countryside seek shelter and supplies at a Wal-Mart just outside the city limits.
Family of the Dead	Giangregorio, Anthony	2009	Giangregorio family zombie tales.
The Fog	Herbert, James	2003	A mysterious fog seeps out of the ground causing a village to go insane with rage.
Generation Dead	Waters, Daniel	2008	Teen romance with Zombies.
Happy Hour of the Damned	Henry, Mark	2008	Urban Fantasy/Dark Comedy with sentient zombies
History Is Dead: A Zombie Anthology	Johnson, Scott A.,Paffenroth, Kim,McKinney, Joe and Gunn Derek	2007	Our team of crack historians has uncovered the truth you never learned in school: the living dead have walked among us since the dawn of time. In this collection of gruesome tales from throughout the ages, the ravenous undead shamble through bloody battlefields, plague-ridden cities, genteel country estates, and dusty frontier towns. They emerge from foggy cemeteries, frozen barrows, loamy bogs, cursed mines, and gore-spattered operating rooms to prey on the living.
The Jetty Journals	Ian Buchanan	2009	A group of Australian teenagers struggle to survive in a world devastated by a virus. They seek refuge along the Mornington Peninsula, dealing with collapsing infrastructure and disease-affected 'ferals' as they go.
Lakewood Memorial	Best, Robert R.	2009	Zombie novel.
The Living Dead	Various	2008
Long Horn, Big Shaggy	Vernon, Steve	2004
Missing	Langan, Sarah	2007
Mondo Zombie	Skipp, John	2006	Zombie anthology
Moonlight	Knapp, Keith	2007
Moonwalker	Hautala, Rick	2007	A community uses undead to harvest their fields, ignoring the human costs.
Night Boat	McCammon, Robert R.	1980
Night of the Living Dead	Russo, John A.	1974
Not Flesh Nor Feathers	Priest, Cherie	2007
Oasis	Beattie, Bryce	2008	Corbin St. Laurent sees a Red Cross trailer offering free vaccinations. He quickly discovers something is terribly wrong, but it's too late.
Phoenix Gene	Webb, Terry	2007	A genetically engineered gene designed to eliminate Alzheimer’s disease is accidentally released on a small town in Texas.
Phoenix Gene:Aftermath	Webb, Terry	2008	The world’s population has been decimated. It has been six months since a genetically engineered virus turned the living into the walking dead.
Patient Zero	Maberry, Jonathan	2009	When you have to kill the same terrorist twice in one week there's either something wrong...
Project Phoenix: Dead Rising	Patterson, Darrin	2000
Plague of the Dead (The Morningstar Strain)	Recht, Z. A.	2006	The Morningstar virus has a 100% mortality rate and the victims become undead. A colonel discovers hidden facts about the virus and leaks this information to a reporter.
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (The Classic Regency Romance - Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem)	Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith	2009	"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains."
The Queen	Brown, Eric S.	2007
Reign of the Dead	Barnhart, Len	2004
The Resurrection Game	Watt, Mike	2002
Return of the Living Dead	Russo, John	1973	The Co-Writer of Night of the Living Dead wrote this sequel in 1973. Filmmaker Dan O'Bannon bought the rights in title only and made the movie in 1985.
Return of the Living Dead	Russo, John	1985	Russo wrote a second novel with the same title, based on the film Return of the Living Dead.
Rise and Walk	Solis, Gregory	2007
Risen	Knight, J.	2004
Road Trip of the Living Dead	Henry, Mark	2009	Humorous Urban Fantasy, sequel to Happy Hour of the Damned
Roses of Blood on Barbwire Vines	Snell, D. L.	2007
Run	Restucci, Rich	2015
Song of the Living Dead	Narnia, Soren	2003	An oral history about how zombies rose and the country went mad. Then the zombies laid down again without ever committing a single act of violence. The second time the dead rise they are violent.
Steel Breakfast Era: The Decadent Return of the Hi-Fi Queen and Her Embryonic Reptile Infection	Mellick III, Carlton	2003
Scared stiff	Jahnna N. Malcolm	1995	Chace, Matt and Kelly pursue the task to stop a zombie from seeking revenge on those who convicted him.
Sunrise	Boye, Kody	2009	A pair of young men escape to a fortified asylum after fleeing from a gang hellbent on raiding their apartment.
The War of the Worlds Plus Blood, Guts and Zombies	Wells, H.G.; Brown, Eric S.	2009	Humans vs martians vs zombies in this H.G. Wells rewrite.
Thunder and Ashes (The Morningstar Strain)	Recht, Z. A.	2008
To Wake The Dead	Woeste, Steven W	2006
Tomes of the Dead: The Words of Their Roaring	Smith, Matthew	2007	London is overrun by zombies, giving a gang lord an opportunity to take over the city.
Twilight of the Dead	Adkins, Travis	2007	Eastpointe is a fortified town, population a young woman, as time goes by more and more find refuge at this fort and strengthen its defences.
Unblemished	Williams, Conrad	2008	Creatures banished five centuries ago rise again to lay eggs in the few people they don't consume alive.
The Undead: Zombie Anthology	Various Well Known Authors and Editors	2005	Volume 1: Zombies as reality entertainment, glimpses from inside the "life" of the undead...
The Undead: Skin and Bones	Various Well Known Authors and Editors	2007	Volume 2: A fungus takes over an office building and all its occupants. An exiled boy flees across a wasteland...
The Undead: Flesh Feast	Various Well Known Authors and Editors	2007	Volume 3: A new recruit must face the grotesque realities behind the zombie war. An ancient, tentacled horror commands the walking dead.
The Undead: Headshot Quartet	Various Well Known Authors and Editors	2007	Volume 4: Four short stories; Million-Dollar Money Shot, Mortal Gods, Lost Souls and Enemy Unseen...
Voodoo Virus	Jones, William	2008
Walkers	Craft, Jack	2008	The Demons of the Flesh are already dead and they want you with them.
The Walking	Little, Bentley	2000	A private detective discovers people who start walking after they die.
The Walking Dead	Smith, Guy N.	1984
Wet Work	Nutman, Philip	1993
Zombie	Haining, Peter	1985	Zombie Anthology
Zombie	Lecale, Errol	1975
Zombie!	Tremayne, Peter	1987
Zombie CSU: The Forensics of the Living Dead	Maberry, Jonathan	2008	The existence of zombies may not be so far-fetched after all.
Zombie Haiku			Haiku about the journey of one zombie
Zombie Jam	Schow, David J.	2005	Four zombie stories
Zombie Love	Garton, Ray	2003	A teenager who loses his girlfriend has a witch bring her back to life.
Zombies In My Hometown	Wedlund, Gary	2002

References

Criteria

This list should contain novels that have their own articles, could have their own articles per WP:NOTE (refs should be included), or where the author is a notable author with their own article. Please discuss. Verbal chat 14:20, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

If there is no further discussion or opposition, I will start removing all entries without a blue internal link. Verbal chat 16:09, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Silence means nothing, hold on. I will take care of it, taking the extra step of looking for references for each book. Instead of deleting the contributions of a lot of editors, I will move the information here. Notability is not based upon whether there is a blue link. Notability is based on references. I welcome your assistance is finding references.

Why spend time on the article when you would like it deleted and made into a category? once these books who have no references are removed, would you considering changing your !vote please. Ikip (talk) 01:47, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

Can you please restore the links I added at the very least? Unless this article only contains notable books or books by notable authors, and by that I mean ones with wikipedia articles, then my not vote will stay as delete. There's only a few days left to convince me to change my mind, and adding indidvidual references (that fail WP:GNG) isn't helping. Verbal chat 07:10, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

I am sorry, I didn't see that you added links. I will restore them then unwatch this article, as I trust your judgment on this article. Ikip (talk) 14:00, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

Here is the last version including non notables: old article. Please restore any that have articles (book or author). Thanks. Verbal chat 07:24, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

(refactored) Verbal, I am really confused, this statement does not exist in policy:

"Note several fixes to tabe to. Please reintroduce after starting articles on books or authors, or adding blue links"

If these articles are referenced with notable references, then they should be on wikipedia. Ikip (talk) 13:14, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

See WP:RS. As has been said on the AfD only notable books should be included, ie those with articles. That is a compromise, rather than delete. You seem unwilling to remove any that can't be found on google. Verbal chat 13:24, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

We all are trying to comprimise :) I removed almost all of the article :) Thanks for compromising though. Ikip (talk) 13:59, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

Per WP

"Lists, whether they are embedded lists or stand-alone lists, are encyclopedic content as are paragraphs and articles, and they are equally subject to Wikipedia's content policies such as Verifiability, No original research, Neutral point of view, and others."

It doesn't mean it has to already have a Wikipedia article, however it should be reliable. I'd argue being published by a mainstream publisher (not self-publishing) should be sufficient for preliminary inclusion, given the somewhat esoteric nature of the topic.MartinezMD (talk) 01:25, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

Having reread the WP policies, I'd have to reconsider my stance and agree with the original postings. The books need to be notable or, as the compromise I believe I'm understanding, have a notable author.MartinezMD (talk) 05:24, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

There is an article about a list of zombie movies that doesn't have to be 'notable'. The title should say: NOTABLE Zombie Novels if you want to have it be for a certain club so to speak. Excluding published works from smaller publishers or even e-books sold by Amazon is self-righteous. If anything, have a secondary list that expands on ALL zombie novels (and I don't necessary mean fan-fiction or the like). If it is publicly available for purchase as a paperback/hardback novel or e-book through a major retailer such as Amazon, then it should be included so that anyone in the world can find such titles. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.181.167.153 (talk) 00:54, 5 July 2012 (UTC)

If I write a piece of crap "novel" and self-publish it, then ten people buy it. Should we include it on the list too? MartinezMD (talk) 02:41, 6 July 2012 (UTC)

What you consider a "piece of crap" novel is subjective. That is "your opinion". An Encyclopedia is not your personal blog, so quit being self-rightous and acting like you are the only person in all of humanity that controls Wikipedia. Anyone can add to, it seems only a select few can change and leave what they feel is their own justification of what is fact or fiction. The fact is, the title of the article is a "List of Zombie Novels", not notable which was recently added to try and justify your actions, and not mainstream or published by big publishers. A zombie novel is a zombie novel is a zombie novel. If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, then it must be a duck! Is this so hard to comprehend?! Regardless if it is "crap" by your definition, it is not your right to smear your opinion all over. That in upon itself vandalism of an article just as if someone wrote "penis" all over it. So please get off of your high horse and revert it back to the list that anyone should be able to research. Honestly.

The point you miss is that I could write anything and put it in and meet your criteria. There would be no consideration of notability. The use of the word crap was just the extreme example. Perhaps you just glossed over the entire discussion, but lists themselves had encyclopedic requirements. Read through and check the links. Furthermore, there are many books I like, think are well-written, I initially placed myself, then removed because of the list criteria. Don't assume my motivations. I have no objection to anyone adding to the list. I've only removed the ones that were not notable by WP guidelines. MartinezMD (talk) 23:04, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Revisiting the topic, the article is "a list of zombie related novels that are notable themselves or by notable authors." I am removing ones that do not have article links for the novel or author or fail to meet WP:GNG with sources. MartinezMD (talk) 22:04, 21 March 2022 (UTC)

References

The recently added Sometimes references do little more than confirm the existence of the book, they do not establish notability. Some of them are promotional. Stubs should be started for notable books and then they should be added to the list, or stubs started using references here. Verbal chat

lord, and I was planning on unwatching this page. Verbal, please, lets not do this. *sigh*

This is the pattern of deletion, that I hate so much:

No references >> references added >>> references not good enough >>> references explained >>> references still not good enough >>> demand deletion.

Ikip (talk) 14:03, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

Well I'm not advocating wholesale removal, I might even start some stubs myself (not today though). It depends on the quality of the sources. Trust me (I'm a doctor...). I'll bring any concerns with references I have here when I get around to reviewing them. I'd rather you stuck around to help. Cheers, Verbal chat 14:08, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

Adding references is hard, creating new articles is even harder, especially when it is a subject that you are not interested in. Is this a subject which even interests you?

Thanks for the invitation to stay, maybe you should talk to that Zombie editor above, he seems interested in this subject. Me, despite making over 100 articles and having 40,000 edits, I don't like working on articles anymore, simply because I then feel obligated to police them from vandals, etc. Ikip (talk) 14:17, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

I can't see your links you mention. I disagree with the removal of the referenced books. But it is all in edit history. *Washes hands* Ikip (talk) 14:21, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

Oh I added them back already. I misunderstood your reference to links. Some were to wrong articles like I said below, so shouldn't be readded. Don't worry, thanks. Verbal chat 14:27, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

Incorrect wikilinks

Some links go to unrelated articles/people with the same names. This needs to be fixed. Thanks, Verbal chat 13:30, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

okay. I won't look into this now, as I will unwatch the page after i add back your links, but you are welcome too. Ikip (talk) 14:05, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

Spam/Internet novels under novels

I will be removing references to online novel as they only clutter the actual novels. They are not respecting WP:EL, WP:SOAP and might be considered as spam. If you want your novel restored, we can discuss here. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Arch4ngel (talk • contribs) 21:35, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

Categories

I'd like to propose separating out the child/young adult novels from the standard publications. When looking for reading material or categorizing them, as an adult, would it not be useful to do so? MartinezMD (talk) 21:40, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

Self-Promotion

I removed a couple of self-published listings. For one of them, some person/persons keeps readding it (pip and the zombies). I'm trying to avoid an edit war and hold off on delisting it for 24 hours. Any reason, other than them wanting to include it, a non-notable self-published novel should be on the list? Here is what I'm using as a guideline:

1. Wikipedia:Notability
2. Wikipedia:Source_list#Listed_items
3. Self-publishing
4. Wikipedia:Self-promotion

MartinezMD (talk) 18:24, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

Reword

Perhaps "This is a list of notable zombie-related novels" instead of "This is a list of zombie related novels that are notable themselves or by notable authors.". — Preceding unsigned comment added by DrJimothyCatface (talk • contribs) 10:47, 25 May 2011 (UTC)

That description would then exclude works by notable authors whose individual novels did not receive as much attention.MartinezMD (talk) 15:51, 25 May 2011 (UTC)

Assessment comment

The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:List of zombie novels/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.

Please consider that there are many notable authors and book titles that do not appear on this list, I would like to edit with quite a few very notable Zombie novels/books that I have read personally, I would not be putting anything on the list that is poor.

Last edited at 00:31, 18 September 2009 (UTC). Substituted at 22:17, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

The Girl with All the Gifts

I recommend adding this to the table. Although not a typical zombie novel, it fits the description—Anita5192 (talk) 02:14, 5 January 2018 (UTC)

Zombies in all but death. I'd say it's analogous to the film 28 Days Later. We have its related comic book on the list, so I'm okay with adding this.MartinezMD (talk) 02:45, 5 January 2018 (UTC)

Done.—Anita5192 (talk) 06:24, 5 January 2018 (UTC)