Zombie Novels:

Cabal by Clive Barker. In this classic, a mental patient escapes to a city of zombies and is turned into a zombie shapeshifter. As a zombie, he must confront the serial killer who is after his girlfriend. Reign of the Dead by Len Barnhart. A standard zombie storyline about an ordinary man who returns from vacation to find that the world has been taken over by a plague of zombies.
Resident Evil: Genesis by Keith R.A. DeCandido. A novelization based on the first Resident Evil movie. Resident Evil: Apocalypse by Keith R.A. DeCandido. A novelization of the second Resident Evil movie, Resident Evil: Apocalypse.
Xombies by Walter Greatshell. A girl with a condition that keeps her from menstruating is one of the few female survivors of a zombie virus outbreak that targets women more than men. She heads to the arctic with an all-male submarine crew, seeking an unpopulated area where zombies have not yet taken hold. Divine Fire by Melanie Jackson. In this romance novel, an immortal Lord Byron teams up with his biographer to battle a mad scientist and his army of zombies.
The Rising by Brian Keene. In a world that has been taken over by zombies, one loving father sets out to find and save his son. Risen by J. Knight. A small town is slowly taken over by a demonic force. The dead rise as zombies who are loyal to this demon.
Gil's All Fright Diner by A. Lee Martinez. In this humorous novel, the owner of an all-night diner hires a werewolf and a vampire to get rid of some zombies. The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror by Christopher Moore. After a boy sees the murder of a man dressed as Santa, he prays for a miracle to save Christmas. A not-so-bright angel answers his prayer and soon zombie Santa and his minions are threatening the whole town.
The Umbrella Conspiracy: Resident Evil #1 by S.D. Perry. An adaptation of the first Resident Evil video game. This entire series is based on the video games, not the films. Caliban Cove: Resident Evil #2 by S.D. Perry. Rebecca Chambers and her team of Raccoon City S.T.A.R.S. operatives try to uncover more nasty Umbrella Corporation experiments and must stop a mad scientist before it is too late.
City of the Dead: Resident Evil #3 by S.D. Perry. Adapted from the video game storyline of Resident Evil 2. Leon Kennedy and Claire Redfield wander around a city taken over by the undead, searching for Claire's brother. Underworld: Resident Evil #4 by S.D. Perry. Claire Redfield, Rebecca Chambers and other characters from the video games must battle new mutants and dinosaur-like creatures.
Nemesis: Resident Evil #5 by S.D. Perry. Jill Valentine tries to escape from zombie-infested Raccoon City, but the Umbrella Corporation has turned loose its failsafe ultimate predator, Nemesis, in order to clean the city of everything undead or alive. Code: Veronica: Resident Evil #6 by S.D. Perry. Adapted from the video game Resident Evil: Code Veronica. Claire Redfield and Steve Burnside are taken prisoner and sent to an Umbrella Corporation lab. They escape when zombies take over.
Zero Hour: Resident Evil #7 by S.D. Perry. The last of this series, based on the video game. The Dead by Mark E. Rogers. In this theological thriller, the apocalypse happens but nobody notices until the dead begin to rise. These zombies are actually the demons of hell, here to torment those who were not plucked to heaven at the moment of judgement.

Collections and Anthologies:

The Book Of All Flesh edited by James Lowder. A highly-rated collection of short stories about zombies. These stories are from authors such as Robert Vardeman, Ed Greenwood and C. Dean Andersson. The Book of More Flesh edited by James Lowder. This sequel contains more zombie short stories, by authors such as J. Robert King, Tom Piccirilli and Steve Eller.
The Book of Final Flesh edited by James Lowder. This anthology completes the Book of Flesh collection with additional zombie short stories. The Steel Breakfast Era by Carlton Mellick III & The Decadent Return of the Hi-Fi Queen and Her Embryonic Reptile Infection by Simon Logan Two very chaotic, weird novels. The Steel Breakfast Era is set a century after a zombie apocalypse, while the other novel is not about zombies, yet contains similar themes about bodies being taken over by something else.
Zombie Jam by David J. Schow. This collection of four short stories includes two tales about zombie apocalypses, one with a human who eats zombies and another about a human who must learn to ignore zombies or die. The remaining two stories consist of an erotic tale of necrophilia, and a metaphor based on zombies as consumers. Still Dead edited by by John Skipp & Craig Spector. A collection of unusual, often artsy, zombie short stories. Each story tries to be different from what has been written before in the zombie genre by presenting some bizarre twist.

Zombie Comic Books & Graphic Novels:

Resident Evil: Code Veronica - Book One by Lee Chung Hing. The first graphic novel based on the Code Veronica video game. Resident Evil: Code Veronica - Book Two by Lee Chung Hing. The second book in this graphic novel series. By DC Comics.
Resident Evil: Code Veronica - Book Three by Lee Chung Hing. The third book in this series of graphic novels. Resident Evil: Code Veronica - Book Four by Lee Chung Hing. The fourth book in this series of graphic novels.
The Walking Dead Vol. 1: Days Gone Bye written by Robert Kirkman, illustrated by Tony Moore. A police officer awakens from a coma and finds that the world has been taken over by flesh-eating zombies. This graphic novel collects issues #1 thru #6 of the original comic books. The Walking Dead Vol. 2: Miles Behind Us written by Robert Kirkman, illustrated by Charlie Adlard and Cliff Rathburn. The main characters move into a luxury subdivision near Atlanta that seems to be sparsely populated with zombies. There, they hope to survive. Collects issues #7 thru #12 of the original comic books.
The Walking Dead Vol. 3: Safety Behind Bars written by Robert Kirkman, illustrated by Charlie Adlard. The main characters move inside a prison so that they can finally be safe from zombies, but they failed to reckon with a different danger. George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead written by Steve Niles, illustrated by Chee. An adaptation of the classic zombie film Dawn of the Dead. Survivors of a zombie apocalypse take refuge inside a shopping mall.
Remains by Steve Niles. One woman and one man are the only humans left alive in Reno, NV. All the rest have been converted into zombies. Savage Membrane: A Cal McDonald Mystery by Steve Niles. Occult detective Cal McDonald is called to investigate mysterious deaths in Washington, D.C. There he stumbles onto a nest of zombies, being raised from the dead for purposes of child prostitution.
The Goon Volume 1: Nothin' But Misery by Eric Powell. The Goon is a mob boss who often ends up fulfilling the role of a superhero. In this humorous graphic novel, he must save his town from an evil priest who has been creating zombies. Dead West by Rick Spears. A zombie graphic novel set in the Wild West. The only survivor of an Indian massacre places a curse on the town, causing the dead to rise as zombies.

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