Posted on 08.03.07 by Nathan Shumate @ 10:36 am
 Lulu.com is a print-on-demand publisher, like Cafepress but only for books: Upload your manuscript and promote it, and they’ll print one off and send it when someone orders it. As you can imagine, for this kind of self-publishing (especially with no upfront investment), quality ranges anywhere from “not too bad” to “dear sweet heavens, who let you near a keyboard?”
There are 1227 horror novels on Lulu. And in six months, Gregory Solis’ zombie novel Rise and Walk has become the #1 seller among them. So even grading on the curve for self-published books, it ranks pretty high.
‘Course, you don’t have to take my word for it. (Or his.) Solis’ website, Hadrian Publishing, has multiple sample chapters available to test it out before you buy. Plus forums and other goodies.
You can buy the book for $16.99 through either Lulu or Amazon.com.
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Posted on 12.14.06 by Nathan Shumate @ 10:36 am
 There’s nothing so fun as getting all uppity and academic with pop culture. That seems to be the idea behind Paffenroth’s book from Baylor University Press, subtitled “George Romero’s Visions of Hell on Earth”:
This volume connects American social and religious views with the classic American movie genre of the zombie horror film. For nearly forty years, the films of George A. Romero have presented viewers with hellish visions of our world overrun by flesh-eating ghouls. This study proves that Romero’s films, like apocalyptic literature or Dante’s Commedia, go beyond the surface experience of repulsion to probe deeper questions of human nature and purpose, often giving a chilling and darkly humorous critique of modern, secular America.
Nominated for a Stoker Award, too. 195 pages in hardcover, $13.57 from Amazon.com.
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Posted on 12.04.06 by Nathan Shumate @ 11:21 am
 Since it’s hard to talk about zombies without talking about George Romero, let’s do that. Or rather, let’s let this 1993 book from Wallflower Press do that.
The Cinema of George A. Romero: Knight of the Living Dead is the first in-depth study in English of the career of this foremost auteur working at the margins of the Hollywood mainstream in the horror genre. In placing Romero’s oeuvre in the context of literary naturalism, the book explores the relevance of the director’s films within American cultural traditions and thus explains the potency of such work beyond ’splatter movie’ models. The author explores the roots of naturalism in the work of Emile Zola and traces this through to the EC Comics of the 1950s and on to the work of Stephen King. In so doing, the book illuminates the importance of seminal Romero texts such as Night of the Living Dead (1968), Creepshow (1982), Monkey Shines (1988), The Dark Half (1992). This study also includes full coverage of Romero’s latest feature, Bruiser (2000), as well as his screenplays and teleplays.
I wouldn’t exactly call Monkey Shines “seminal,” but to each his own.
224 pages in paper, twenty bucks even from Amazon.com .
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Posted on 11.21.06 by Nathan Shumate @ 3:19 pm
 From the same “Popular Culture and Philosophy” series that brought us Monty Python and Philosophy: Nudge Nudge, Think Think! and James Bond and Philosophy (are we sensing a trend yet?), 288 pages on, well, zombies and philosophy:
Though Bram Stoker coined the term, the undead have stalked the human imagination for eons, appearing in the myths and legends of nearly all cultures. The concept of people, or unpeople, interacting with others while devoid of humanity provides a wealth of material for philosophical speculation. Encompassing George Romero’s radiation-spawned Living Dead, the “infected” of 28 Days Later, as well as more traditional zombies and vampires, the essays in The Undead and Philosophy ponder questions such as: Is it cool to be undead, or does it totally suck? Is a zombie simply someone with a brain but without a mind? Are some of the people around us undead, and how could we tell? Can the undead be held responsible for what they do? Is it always morally OK to kill the undead? Served up in a witty, entertaining style, these and other provocative questions present philosophical arguments in terms accessible to all readers.
Available in paperback from for $12.21 from Amazon.com .
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Posted on 10.16.06 by Nathan Shumate @ 10:44 am
 I think we can all agree that of the four coolest things in the world, zombies and monkeys rate pretty highly.* Now writer J.J. Hart and illustrator Will Meugniot have given us a stack-up in this illustrated young-adult novel.
The camping trip in Arizona’s White Mountains is Skeeter McGill’s first as patrol leader, and with the big Jamboree coming up, he has a lot riding on his success. So when things start to go wrong — the scout leaders bringing the food get lost, rain douses the campers’ spirits and fires — Skeeter’s debut looks like a major dud. And, just when he thinks things can’t get any worse, they do. Some of the scouts find an old cabin in the woods, and near it a mysterious sealed crate. When it’s opened, zombie monkeys from beyond the grave are unleashed, and Skeeter’s bad night goes into overdrive!
141 pages in hardcover from Actionopolis. $10.36 from Amazon.com . You can also check out a preview chapter at the official site.
*The other two are pirates and ninjas, which means it’s only a matter of time before someone gives us a graphic novel pitting zombie ninjas against pirate monkeys.
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Posted on 09.18.06 by Nathan Shumate @ 12:45 pm
 Sometimes, reading about movies is better than watching them. (That’s the philosophy on which the entire Cold Fusion Media Empire is based.) So settle back with 427 pages of genre movie goodness/badness , in a book subtitled, “A Book of 80 Great* British Horror Movies from 1956-1974 (* and Not so Great)“:
From Night of the Demon to House of Whipcord… 80 British horror films which collectively made a lasting impression on the psyche of a nation. Author Keith Topping chronicles the films which shaped his childhood, taking a wry and often irreverent look at their triumphs and failings, their cast and crew, their continuity blunders and their impact on the genre as a whole. Illustrated with many rare photographs, this is one film guide guaranteed to raise a smile as we take you back to the terrors of yesteryear. Includes entries on the following films: Night of the Demon, The Curse of Frankenstein, The Trollenberg Terror, Dracula, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Mummy, The City of the Dead, Peeping Tom, Village of the Damned, The Curse of the Werewolf, Night of the Eagle, The Kiss of the Vampire, The Haunting, The Masque of the Red Death, The Black Torment, Dr Terror’s House of Horrors, Rasputin - The Mad Monk, Dracula Prince of Darkness, The Plague of the Zombies, The Witches, Invasion, Frankenstein Created Woman, The Sorcerers, Night of the Big Heat, Quatermass and the Pit, The Blood Beast Terror, The Devil Rides Out, Matthew Hopkins Witchfinder General, Curse of the Crimson Altar, Twisted Nerve, The Haunted House of Horror, Dracula Has Risen From Grave, The Oblong Box, The Corpse, Fragment of Fear, Incense For The Damned, I Start Counting, Scream and Scream Again, Taste the Blood of Dracula, The Vampire Lovers, Virgin Witch, The Blood on Satan’s Claw, The Beast in the Cellar, The Horror of Frankenstein, The House That Dripped Blood, Lust for a Vampire, And Soon the Darkness, Assault, Hands of the Ripper, Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde, Twins of Evil, Doomwatch, Crucible of Terror, Vampire Circus, Captain Kronos Vampire Hunter, Demons of the Mind, Revenge, Tower of Evil, Dracula AD 1972, Frenzy, Dr Phibes Rises Again, The Creeping Flesh, Psychomania, Nothing But The Night, Tales That Witness Madness, Death Line, Theatre of Blood.
Only $12.21 in softcover from Amazon.com.
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