Zombocalypse Now

Zombocalypse Now
Author: Matt Youngmark
Publisher: Atherton Haight
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2009
Genre: End of the world
ISBN: 0984067809

"112 possible endings. At least 7 in which you don't die!"--front cover.

Zombie Apocalypse Now!

Zombie Apocalypse Now!
Author: Thorfinn Skullsplitter
Publisher:
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2019-07-24
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780648499664

Zombies are big business, worth around US $5 billion to the US economy and rising. Products range from video games through to special ammunition and weapons to dispatch zombies. However, social critics have agreed that zombies and the zombie apocalypse are symbols for the existential fragility of contemporary civilization.

Apocalypse Any Day Now

Apocalypse Any Day Now
Author: Tea Krulos
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2019-04-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1613736444

It seems like people are always talking about the end of the world, doesn't it? Y2K, the Mayan Apocalypse, Blood Moon Prophecies, nuclear war, killer robots, you name it. In Apocalypse Any Day Now, journalist Tea Krulos travels the country to try to puzzle out America's obsession with the end of days. Along the way he meets doomsday preppers—people who stockpile supplies and learn survival skills—as well as religious prognosticators and climate scientists. He camps out with the Zombie Squad (who use a zombie apocalypse as a survival metaphor); tours the Survival Condos, a luxurious bunker built in an old Atlas missile silo; and attends Wasteland Weekend, where people party like the world has already ended. Frightening and funny, the ideas Krulos explores range from ridiculously outlandish to alarmingly near and present dangers.

Living with the Living Dead

Living with the Living Dead
Author: Greg Garrett
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2017-05-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0190260475

When humankind faces what it perceives as a threat to its very existence, a macabre thing happens in art, literature, and culture: corpses begin to stand up and walk around. The dead walked in the fourteenth century, when the Black Death and other catastrophes roiled Europe. They walked in images from World War I, when a generation died horribly in the trenches. They walked in art inspired by the Holocaust and by the atomic attacks on Japan. Now, in the early twenty-first century, the dead walk in stories of the zombie apocalypse, some of the most ubiquitous narratives of post-9/11 Western culture. Zombies appear in popular movies and television shows, comics and graphic novels, fiction, games, art, and in material culture including pinball machines, zombie runs, and lottery tickets. The zombie apocalypse, Greg Garrett shows us, has become an archetypal narrative for the contemporary world, in part because zombies can stand in for any of a variety of global threats, from terrorism to Ebola, from economic uncertainty to ecological destruction. But this zombie narrative also brings us emotional and spiritual comfort. These apocalyptic stories, in which the world has been turned upside down and protagonists face the prospect of an imminent and grisly death, can also offer us wisdom about living in a community, present us with real-world ethical solutions, and invite us into conversation about the value and costs of survival. We may indeed be living with the living dead these days, but through the stories we consume and the games we play, we are paradoxically learning what it means to be fully alive.

World War Z

World War Z
Author: Max Brooks
Publisher: Del Rey
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2007-10-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307346617

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Prepare to be entranced by this addictively readable oral history of the great war between humans and zombies.”—Entertainment Weekly We survived the zombie apocalypse, but how many of us are still haunted by that terrible time? We have (temporarily?) defeated the living dead, but at what cost? Told in the haunting and riveting voices of the men and women who witnessed the horror firsthand, World War Z is the only record of the pandemic. The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet. He recorded the testimony of men, women, and sometimes children who came face-to-face with the living, or at least the undead, hell of that dreadful time. World War Z is the result. Never before have we had access to a document that so powerfully conveys the depth of fear and horror, and also the ineradicable spirit of resistance, that gripped human society through the plague years. THE INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE “Will spook you for real.”—The New York Times Book Review “Possesses more creativity and zip than entire crates of other new fiction titles. Think Mad Max meets The Hot Zone. . . . It’s Apocalypse Now, pandemic-style. Creepy but fascinating.”—USA Today “Will grab you as tightly as a dead man’s fist. A.”—Entertainment Weekly, EW Pick “Probably the most topical and literate scare since Orson Welles’s War of the Worlds radio broadcast . . . This is action-packed social-political satire with a global view.”—Dallas Morning News

Zombie Apocalypse! Acapulcalypse Now

Zombie Apocalypse! Acapulcalypse Now
Author: Stephen Jones
Publisher: Robinson
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2015-09-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 147213589X

The Hotel Baktun is an exclusive vacation complex that is about to open on the coast of Acapulco, Mexico. Owned by a mysterious multi-millionaire businessman, it is shaped like an ancient Mayan pyramid and its halls are lined with rare and expensive artefacts. For Stacy Keenan, the hotel's new Head of Security, things are already chaotic as the locals continue to put the finishing touches to the festivities while VIPs begin to arrive for the grand opening. When a Russian cruise ship turns along the shore and disgorges its cargo of flesh-eating zombies, the guests and staff soon fragment into various factions as they struggle to withstand the spread of HRV (Human Reanimation Virus). As the armies of the dead conquer all that stand before them, and the human survivors prepare for a final battle against an unstoppable enemy, a horror even more ancient and terrible is revealed when 'The Death' comes to Paradise . . .

Zombie Apocalypse

Zombie Apocalypse
Author: Macenzie Guiver
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 42
Release: 2014-07-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781500618933

Zombies are everywhere today and to most people they are something out of scary stories like vampires or werewolves, no more real than Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny. But are we dismissing these blood-thirsty monsters at our peril? According to several scientists who have taken on the task of proving or disproving the possibility of zombies, while it is possible that some previously unknown disease could cause symptoms similar to those associated with pop-culture zombies (a mutated disease similar to rabies perhaps), it is also unlikely. But the actual disaster behind a zombie apocalypse, a deadly global pandemic, is not only possible, it is highly probable. In “Zombie Apocalypse: The Prepper's Guide to Pandemic Outbreak, Quarantine, and Zombie Fallout” #1 Best Selling author Macenzie Guiver shows you how it's happened many times before and why it is likely to happen again during our lifetime. Whether the threat comes from a zombie disease or some errant strain of influenza, the threat of pandemic is real and it is something that every family must be prepared to handle in order to survive. When the 1918 Spanish Flu swept around the globe, entire families and neighborhoods were wiped out. Nearly 30% of the population of the planet were infected as many as 5.5% of the world's inhabitants died as a result (That's more than 1 in every 20 people dead – planet-wide). When the next pandemic comes, the only way to ensure the safety and survival of your family is to prepare now. “Zombie Apocalypse” will help you: • Understand how pandemics happen, and why we're likely to have another one in your lifetime • Learn important lessons from past pandemics, and how some of the ones in the recent past make a Zombie outbreak look like child's play • Know what to expect in the days and weeks following a major outbreak, there's more than just the usual “prepper” stuff to worry about here • Determine what to do now to be ready, whether it's Zombies, or an uber-deadly new strain of the flu virus there are some common steps to take for this type of “end of the world as we know it” scenario • Create a pandemic preparedness plan for your family and practice it. Using the Zombie angle to create your practice scenarios can add a bit of fun to an otherwise difficult and hard-to-wrap-your-head-around prepping topic From providing an understanding of how pandemics progress from Patient Zero to global catastrophe to explaining how a global pandemic will affect the society around us, this guide provides prepping families with the perspective, information, and planning steps they need to be ready to survive the next pandemic, even if that means fighting off zombies in order to do so!

The Walking Dead and Philosophy

The Walking Dead and Philosophy
Author: Wayne Yuen
Publisher: Open Court Publishing
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2012
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0812697677

"The Walking Dead" is both a hugely successful comics series and a popular TV show. This epic story of a zombie apocalypse is unique. It focuses on the long-term individual, social, and moral consequences of survival by small groups of humans in a world overrun by infected zombies. Guns, chainsaws, and machetes are not enough for survival: humans also need agreement on rules of conduct. Can equality or fairness have any polace in the post-apocalyptic world? Do theft or even assault and murder become okay under desperate circumstances? Who should be recognized as having political authority? What about eating human flesh? Should survivors have children?

Zombology

Zombology
Author: Brian Anse Patrick
Publisher: Arktos
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2014
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1907166912

In films, television, books, games, pornography, and now even in firearms and ammunition being sold to the American public, zombies are one of the mainstays of the popular culture of our time. Far from being only a passing curiosity, Brian Patrick dissects the zombie, showing it as the articulation of deep-seated fears within the Western psyche, a symbol in fact for the growing dehumanization that many of us observe, or perhaps sense without fully realizing it, in modern civilization. Patrick connects the zombie phenomenon to previous historical occurrences, drawing on both religion and psychology to show how such symbolic tropes that lodge in the collective unconscious of a culture are reflective of the psychological needs of large numbers of people in times of crisis. Patrick likewise shows how zombiedom has manifested particularly in American gun culture, and how this relates to the growth of a large-scale citizens' activist movement in favor of gun rights. Also included are practical tips on how to stay out of the clutches of zombiedom. Zombology is more than just a book about zombies, however. The zombie, for Patrick, is a peculiarly Western phenomenon, and as such, he examines how it can be seen as a manifestation of not-so-abstract forces battling for the future of our civilization: will collectivization or the individual, dream or reality win out? Patrick offers his own diagnosis. "At the very least the zombie adds some much-needed psychic contrast to the cold, to the grey and to the unending. It also provides a face, albeit necrotic, to the seemingly impersonal sociological forces that undermine the West; for in a near-perfect correspondence with the zombie, the West itself appears to be necrotic in a galloping way. Both need brains to ease the pain."-p. 48