Vampires have always enjoyed immense popularity in horror fiction and for a long time it was constantly growing. Recently, however, there has been a surge in the popularity of zombies in horror fiction. There is something quite frightening about shambling corpses wanting to eat you in vast numbers. It seems to touch a nerve in people — particularly readers and movie goers. Will Zombies replace the vampire as the monster of choice?
Only time . . . and reader demand will tell.
Below are zombie books and all of them are available through the libraries of the CLEVNET Consortium — many are owned by the Cleveland Hts-University Hts. Public Library System. You can click on the title if you’d like to order the book through the CLEVNET webcatalog.
Fiction:
- Acevedo, Mario
- Jailbait Zombie (The Felix Gomez Series #4)
- Adams, John Joseph (editor)
- The Living Dead: An Anthology
- Austen, Jane and Seth Grahame-Smith
- Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance — Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem
- Brooks, Max
- World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
- Browne, S. G.
- Breathers: A Zombie’s Lament
- Clark, Simon
- Stranger
- Dunwoody, David
- Empire: A Zombie Novel
- Greatshell, Walter
- Xombies
- Henry, Mark
- Happy Hour of the Damned (The Amanda Feral Series #1)
- Road Trip of the Living Dead (The Amanda Feral Series #2)
- Jones, Stephen (editor)
- The Mammoth Book of Zombies
- Keene, Brian
- Dead Sea
- The Rising (The Rising Series #1)
- City Of The Dead (The Rising Series #2)
- The Rising: Selected Scenes From The End Of The World (The Rising Series #3)
- The Rising (The Rising Series #1)
- King, Stephen
- Cell
- Langan, Sarah
- The Missing
- Lowder, James (editor)
- The Book of Final Flesh (All Flesh Must Be Eaten Anthology)
- McKinney, Joe
- Dead City
- Maberry, Jonathan
- Patient Zero (The Joe Ledger Series #1)
- Navarro, Yvonne
- Deadrush
- Nicholson, Scott
- The Harvest
- Samiloglu, Erin
- Gossamer Hall
- Smith, Bryan
- Deathbringer
- Stone Jr., Del
- Dead Heat
- Waggoner, Tim
- Necropolis
- Wellington, David
- Monster Island (The Monster Island Trilogy #1)
- Monster Nation (The Monster Island Trilogy #2)
- Monster Planet (The Monster Island Trilogy #3)
- Monster Nation (The Monster Island Trilogy #2)
Non-Fiction:
- Curran, Bob
- Zombies: A Field Guide to the Walking Dead
- Greene, Richard and K. Silem Mohammad (editors)
- The Undead and Philosophy: Chicken Soup for the Soulless
- Kay, Glenn
- Zombie Movies: The Ultimate Guide
- Kenemore, Scott
- The Zen of Zombie: Better Living through the Undead
- Maberry, Jonathan
- Zombie CSU: The Forensics of the Living Dead
- Mecum, Ryan
- Zombie Haiku: Good Poetry For Your . . . Brains
- Snyder, Lucy A.
- Installing Linux on a Dead Badger: (And Other Oddities)
Value Added Extra: Graphic Novels
- Ellis, Warren
- Blackgas
- Hicks, Faith Erin
- Zombies Calling
- Hotz, Kyle
- The Zombie: Simon Garth
- Kirkman, Robert
- Days Gone Bye (The Walking Dead Series #1)
- Miles Behind Us (The Walking Dead Series #2)
- Safety Behind Bars (The Walking Dead Series #3)
- The Heart’s Desire (The Walking Dead Series #4)
- The Best Defense (The Walking Dead Series #5)
- This Sorrowful Life (The Walking Dead Series #6)
- The Calm Before (The Walking Dead Series #7)
- Made To Suffer (The Walking Dead Series #8)
- Miles Behind Us (The Walking Dead Series #2)
- Kirkman, Robert; et al.
- Marvel Zombies: Dead Days (The Marvel Zombies Series #1)
- Marvel Zombies vs. Army of Darkness (The Marvel Zombies Series #2)
- Marvel Zombies (The Marvel Zombies Series #3)
- Marvel Zombies 2 (The Marvel Zombies Series #4)
- Marvel Zombies vs. Army of Darkness (The Marvel Zombies Series #2)
- Kuhoric, James
- Army of Darkness: From the Ashes
- Niles, Steve
- 28 Days Later– The Aftermath
- Remains
- Powell, Eric
- Rough Stuff (The Goon Series #0)
- Nothin’ But Misery (The Goon Series #1)
- My Murderous Childhood (And Other Grievous Yarns) (The Goon Series #2)
- Heaps of Ruination (The Goon Series #3)
- Virtue and the Grim Consequences Thereof (The Goon Series #4)
- Wicked Inclinations (The Goon Series #5)
- Chinatown and the mystery of Mr. Wicker (The Goon Series #6)
- Nothin’ But Misery (The Goon Series #1)
- Richardson, Mike
- Living with the Dead
- Richie, Ross and Andrew Crosby (editors)
- Zombie Tales (The Zombie Tales Series #1)
- Campbell, Ross
- The Abandoned
- Thomas, Roy
- Essential Tales of the Zombie
- Verheiden, Mark
- The Evil Dead


That’s the most complete list of zombie books I’ve seen in a long time. Nice going.
Thank you, Jonathan,
Your words made me smile. I’m glad you liked the list. I was restricted by the caveat that the book had to be owned by a library in the CLEVNET system. Otherwise it would have been longer. But I tried to make it a nice place to start.
(For those who don’t know, Jonathan Maberry is a Stoker Award winning author who has just published a novel with a zombie or two (he he he) called Patient Zero as well as the Stoker Award nominated Zombie CSU: The Forensics of the Living Dead. You can get a PDF copy of Countdown, the prequel to Patient Zero by clicking on this link.)
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