Dead to the World

Dead to the World
Author: Charlaine Harris
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2005-05-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101134038

Psychic Sookie Stackhouse has her hands full with an amnesiac vampire in the fourth seductive novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series—the inspiration for the HBO® original series True Blood. When cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse sees a naked man on the side of the road, she doesn’t just drive on by. Turns out the poor thing hasn’t a clue who he is, but Sookie does. It’s the vampire Eric Northman—but now he’s a kinder, gentler Eric. And a scared Eric, because whoever took his memory now wants his life. Sookie’s investigation into why leads straight into a dangerous battle among witches, vampires, and werewolves. But a greater danger could be to Sookie’s heart—because the kinder, gentler Eric is very difficult to resist...

Kings of a Dead World

Kings of a Dead World
Author: Jamie Mollart
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 458
Release: 2024-04-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1504094409

A novel set in a near-future world of hunger and hibernation: “[An] intriguing and timely premise . . . executed with verve.” —Alison Moore, Man Booker Prize finalist and author of Missing The Earth’s resources are dwindling. The solution is The Sleep. Inside a hibernating city, Ben struggles with his limited waking time and the disease stealing his wife from him. Watching over the sleepers, lonely janitor Peruzzi craves the family he never knew. Everywhere, dissatisfaction is growing. And the city is about to wake . . . “A haunting vision of the near-future with expert world-building and rich complex characters.” —Temi Oh, Alex Award–winning author of More Perfect “A challenging dystopia for our time.” —Aliya Whiteley, Arthur C. Clarke Award finalist and author of Skyward Inn

Deadworld Omnibus

Deadworld Omnibus
Author: Gary Reed
Publisher: IDW Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Graphic novels
ISBN: 9781600108587

"A world that has suffered the unleashing of a supernatural holocaust as the dead have risen to walk the earth ... Isolated pockets of humanity struggle to survive against the mindless hordes of zombies and something far more sinister and evil ... Is the darkness that sweeps over the world too heavy to keep man from plunging into extinction, or will the persistance and ingenuity of mankind win out in the end?"--P. [4] of cover.

Our Dead World

Our Dead World
Author: Liliana Colanzi
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
Total Pages: 125
Release: 2017-05-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1628972408

A young woman suffers a mental breakdown because of her repressive and religious mother. A group of children is fascinated by the sudden death of a friend. A drug trafficking couple visits Paris at the same time as a psychopathic cannibal. A mysterious wave travels through a university campus, driving students to suicide. A photographer witnesses a family’s surface composure shatter during a portrait session. A worker on Mars sees ghostly animals in the desert and longs for an impossible return to Earth. A plastic surgeon botches an operation and hides on a sugar cane plantation where indigenous slavery is practiced. Horror and the fantastic mark the unstable realism of Our Dead World, in which altered states of consciousness, marginalized peoples, animal bodies, and tensions between tradition and modernity are recurring themes. Liliana Colanzi’s stories explore those moments when the civilized voice of the ego gives way to the buzzing of the subconscious, and repressed indigenous history destabilizes the colonial legacy still present in contemporary Latin America. Colanzi is considered by critics to be one of the most promising voices of the new Latin American narrative, and this book is an ambitious formal and thematic leap.

We the Dead

We the Dead
Author: Brian Michael Murphy
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2022-05-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1469668300

Locked away in refrigerated vaults, sanitized by gas chambers, and secured within bombproof caverns deep under mountains are America's most prized materials: the ever-expanding collection of records that now accompany each of us from birth to death. This data complex backs up and protects our most vital information against decay and destruction, and yet it binds us to corporate and government institutions whose power is also preserved in its bunkers, infrastructures, and sterilized spaces. We the Dead traces the emergence of the data complex in the early twentieth century and guides readers through its expansion in a series of moments when Americans thought they were living just before the end of the world. Depression-era eugenicists feared racial contamination and the downfall of the white American family, while contemporary technologists seek ever denser and more durable materials for storing data, from microetched metal discs to cryptocurrency keys encoded in synthetic DNA. Artfully written and packed with provocative ideas, this haunting book illuminates the dark places of the data complex and the ways it increasingly blurs the lines between human and machine, biological body and data body, life and digital afterlife.

The World of The Walking Dead

The World of The Walking Dead
Author: Matthew Freeman
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 122
Release: 2019-02-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1351399292

An accessible introduction to the world of The Walking Dead, this book looks across platforms and analytical frameworks to characterize the fictional world of The Walking Dead and how its audiences make use of it. From comics and television to social media, apps, and mobile games, utilizing concepts derived from literary studies, media studies, history, anthropology, and religious studies, Matthew Freeman examines the functions and affordances of new digital platforms. In doing so, he establishes a new transdisciplinary framework for analyzing imaginary worlds across multiple media platforms, bolstering the critical arena of world-building studies by providing a greater array of vocabulary, concepts, and approaches. The World of The Walking Dead is an engaging exploration of stories, their platforms, and their reception, ideal for students and scholars of world-building, film and TV studies, new media, and everything in-between.

This Party's Dead

This Party's Dead
Author: Erica Buist
Publisher: Unbound Publishing
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2021-02-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1783529555

What if we responded to death... by throwing a party? By the time Erica Buist’s father-in-law Chris was discovered, upstairs in his bed, his book resting on his chest, he had been dead for over a week. She searched for answers (the artery-clogging cheeses in his fridge?) and tried to reason with herself (does daughter-in-law even feature in the grief hierarchy?) and eventually landed on an inevitable, uncomfortable truth: everybody dies. While her husband maintained a semblance of grace and poise, Erica found herself consumed by her grief, descending into a bout of pyjama-clad agoraphobia, stalking friends online to ascertain whether any of them had also dropped dead without warning, unable to extract herself from the spiral of death anxiety... until one day she decided to reclaim control. With Mexico’s Day of the Dead festivities as a starting point, Erica decided to confront death head-on by visiting seven death festivals around the world – one for every day they didn’t find Chris. From Mexico to Nepal, Sicily, Thailand, Madagascar, Japan and finally Indonesia – with a stopover in New Orleans, where the dead outnumber the living ten to one – Erica searched for the answers to both fundamental and unexpected questions around death anxiety. This Party’s Deadis the account of her journey to understand how other cultures deal with mortal terror, how they move past the knowledge that they’re going to die in order to live happily day-to-day, how they celebrate rather than shy away from the topic of death – and how when this openness and acceptance are passed down through the generations, death suddenly doesn’t seem so scary after all.

The Dark Judges: The Fall of Deadworld Book I

The Dark Judges: The Fall of Deadworld Book I
Author: Kek-W
Publisher: 2000 AD
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-12-05
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 9781781086032

Is it possible for the living to evade to cold, icy grasp of Death? Deadworld was once a planet similar to Earth, until Judge Death and his brothers Fear, Fire and Mortis deemed that as only the living could break the law, life itself should be a crime. As the Dark Judges set out to bring extinction to this parallel world, Judge Fairfax and a family of farmers attempt to escape the chaos. Is it possible for the living to evade to cold, icy grasp of Death? This chilling collection also features the Dreams of Deadworld strips, giving an extraordinary insight into the undead psyches of the internationally famous super-fiends. * The never-before-collected Fall Of Deadworld story-line, shining new light on internationally-beloved villains, The Dark Judges. * Includes the untold origins of The Dark Judges - including Judge Dredd arch-nemesis Judge Death. * "Beautifully illustrated" - Down The Tubes * "Definitely some of the most terrifying characters in comics" - Comics Alliance * "What was most shocking was how plausible and familiar the setting is. I guess what I mean is that this isn't a science fiction pre-dystopia. It's like Trump's Presidency circa 2019 pre-dystopia." - Multiversity.com * Previous Titles: 9781781083192 Judge Dredd: Dark Justice; 9781906735890 Judge Death: Death Lives; 9781907519901 Judge Death: The Life and Death of

Deadworld: Requiem for the World #3

Deadworld: Requiem for the World #3
Author: Gary Reed
Publisher: Caliber Comics
Total Pages: 25
Release: 2019-11-07
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1632944561

Before there was The Walking Dead there was Deadworld. Here is an introduction of the long running classic horror series, Deadworld, to a new audience! Considered by many to be the godfather of the original zombie comic with over 100 issues and graphic novels in print and over 1,000,000 copies sold, Deadworld ripped into the undead with intelligent zombies on a mission and a group of poor teens riding in a school bus desperately try to stay one step ahead of the sadistic, Harley-riding King Zombie. Death, mayhem, and a touch of supernatural evil made Deadworld a classic and now here's your chance to get into the story! THIS ISSUE: Forced to abandon their school bus, the teens stumble across an abandoned riverboat. But unknown to them, the new plans of King Zombie have trapped and cornered them into a fateful decision and not all of the teens are going to survive. “The revival of Deadworld continues to swelter into a huge blockbuster in the making.” - Kenneth Gallant, Broken Frontier. “This is one heck of a disturbing book and I’d definitely recommend it to new and old fans alike.” - Paul Milligan, World’s Heavyweight Comics. “Deadworld was hardcore. The violence was harsh and writer Gary Reed’s vision was dark.” - Dana Tallusz, ComicREaders.com. "The writing in Deadworld is very sharp; from the very beginning we are captivated both by action and by character." - IGN. "So many other "Dead"-type comics have fallen by the wayside because a weak story, or the weak telling of a good story, and I'm overjoyed to see this has not happened here." - Splatterhouse. "I don't care what other people say, Deadworld is the best zombie comic out there." - Robert Henrion. A Caliber Comics release.

Deadworld: Requiem for the World #4

Deadworld: Requiem for the World #4
Author: Gary Reed
Publisher: Caliber Comics
Total Pages: 24
Release: 2019-11-07
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 163294457X

Before there was The Walking Dead there was Deadworld. Here is an introduction of the long running classic horror series, Deadworld, to a new audience! Considered by many to be the godfather of the original zombie comic with over 100 issues and graphic novels in print and over 1,000,000 copies sold, Deadworld ripped into the undead with intelligent zombies on a mission and a group of poor teens riding in a school bus desperately try to stay one step ahead of the sadistic, Harley-riding King Zombie. Death, mayhem, and a touch of supernatural evil made Deadworld a classic and now here's your chance to get into the story! THIS ISSUE: Dan faces the terror of gazing into the eyes of King Zombie before he is seemingly left for dead. The surviving teens manage to find security on another boat, but the boat people have their own designs on making it in this new world. The intelligent zombies make a startling find...they can inhabit and possess new bodies if they are 'killed'. Now, how do you kill a zombie that can switch bodies? “The revival of Deadworld continues to swelter into a huge blockbuster in the making.” - Kenneth Gallant, Broken Frontier. “This is one heck of a disturbing book and I’d definitely recommend it to new and old fans alike.” - Paul Milligan, World’s Heavyweight Comics. “Deadworld was hardcore. The violence was harsh and writer Gary Reed’s vision was dark.” - Dana Tallusz, ComicREaders.com. "The writing in Deadworld is very sharp; from the very beginning we are captivated both by action and by character." - IGN. "So many other "Dead"-type comics have fallen by the wayside because a weak story, or the weak telling of a good story, and I'm overjoyed to see this has not happened here." - Splatterhouse. "I don't care what other people say, Deadworld is the best zombie comic out there." - Robert Henrion. A Caliber Comics release.