The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the living Dead

by Max Brooks

Review by Jason Nahrung

It was only a matter of time, given the proliferation of zombie movies hitting the cinemas and video stores this past year or so. Max Brooks, son of Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft, turns his own comedic pen - sharpened on Saturday Night Live - to the shambling, groaning zombie. His The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead (Duckworth) provides a comprehensive analysis of various forms of zombie (voodoo, Hollywood) and means of destroying them (firearms, slings and arrows, defending your home). He draws from a wide range of sources in describing his zombies, the scholarly tone undone by the perhaps too-occasional dry gag. One for undead-lovin' geeks.

Publisher: Three Rivers Press

Book is 272 pages.  1st edition (September 16, 2003)

ISBN: 1400049628