So far I have read Pride Prejudice and Zombies and The Undead world of Oz. I'm trying to get through War of the Worlds Blood Guts and Zombies but it's not as entertaining as I thought it would be. I've still got three others I haven't read yet that are sitting on my shelf. Alice in zombieland, Robin Hood and Friar Tuck: Zombie Killers, and Huckleberry Finn and Zombie Jim. I hear there is a sequel to Pride Prejudice and Zombies now, I need to find it and get it.

Woah I didnt know that there are so many, i heard only of Pride & Prejudice. Thanks For info.

I didn't know either until I went to order Huckleberry Finn and Zombie Jim on amazon. I looked at the things other people ordered and it listed tons of good zombie fiction classics.

Posted By Abbyka on 19-07-2010 04:12 AM
So far I have read Pride Prejudice and Zombies and The Undead world of Oz. I'm trying to get through War of the Worlds Blood Guts and Zombies but it's not as entertaining as I thought it would be. I've still got three others I haven't read yet that are sitting on my shelf. Alice in zombieland, Robin Hood and Friar Tuck: Zombie Killers, and Huckleberry Finn and Zombie Jim. I hear there is a sequel to Pride Prejudice and Zombies now, I need to find it and get it.

wow lol i got to read those

I've just joined Zombie Pandemic and have been reading the discussion you've been having on mash-ups.

I'm the author of 'Robin Hood and Friar Tuck: Zombie Killers - A Canterbury Tale by Paul A. Freeman' and thought you might be interested to hear some background on my particular book.
When Coscom Entertainment (an independent horror publishing house) asked for submissions for a book of zombie poetry (yes, seriously!), I submitted a narrative poem of 1,100 words. The editor liked it and said if I could write a similar, 18,000-word narrative poem, he would publish it as a stand alone novella.

Since I write Canterbury Tales in the style of Chaucer in my spare time, I decided to write one including zombies. But who would fight this menace? The major 'superhero' of the English medieval age being Robin Hood, I decided to take the characters associated with the Robin Hood legends and incorporate them in a book.

The title of my book was problematic. Originally titled 'The Monk's Second Tale' (because it's the second story told by Chaucer's monk character), I needed something a bit more eye-catching - hence 'Robin Hood and Friar Tuck: Zombie Killers'.

One aim of the book is to introduce readers to a more accessible form of the Chaucerian style of poetry (iambic pentameters and rhyming couplets), hopefully to encourage students of English literature to move on to Chaucer with confidence rather than trepidation.

Anyhow, thanks for giving me the opportunity to elucidate on what probably sounds like a quirky book.

Below is a link to the RH&FT publisher's page, and my rather rudimentary website which explains in more detail my Canterbury Tales project:

http://paulfreeman.weebly.com/

http://www.coscomentertainment.com/...mbies.html

Posted By PAFreeman on 25-07-2010 06:58 AM
I've just joined Zombie Pandemic and have been reading the discussion you've been having on mash-ups.
I'm the author of 'Robin Hood and Friar Tuck: Zombie Killers - A Canterbury Tale by Paul A. Freeman' and thought you might be interested to hear some background on my particular book.
When Coscom Entertainment (an independent horror publishing house) asked for submissions for a book of zombie poetry (yes, seriously!), I submitted a narrative poem of 1,100 words. The editor liked it and said if I could write a similar, 18,000-word narrative poem, he would publish it as a stand alone novella.
Since I write Canterbury Tales in the style of Chaucer in my spare time, I decided to write one including zombies. But who would fight this menace? The major 'superhero' of the English medieval age being Robin Hood, I decided to take the characters associated with the Robin Hood legends and incorporate them in a book.
The title of my book was problematic. Originally titled 'The Monk's Second Tale' (because it's the second story told by Chaucer's monk character), I needed something a bit more eye-catching - hence 'Robin Hood and Friar Tuck: Zombie Killers'.
One aim of the book is to introduce readers to a more accessible form of the Chaucerian style of poetry (iambic pentameters and rhyming couplets), hopefully to encourage students of English literature to move on to Chaucer with confidence rather than trepidation.
Anyhow, thanks for giving me the opportunity to elucidate on what probably sounds like a quirky book.
Below is a link to the RH&FT publisher's page, and my rather rudimentary website which explains in more detail my Canterbury Tales project:
http://paulfreeman.weebly.com/
http://www.coscomentertainment.com/...mbies.html

Awesome to meet you! I've been trying to get some of my stories published but I haven't had any luck. The problem I may be having is finding publishers to submit to. So far I've only ever submitted to Severed Press, I tried googling others with no luck. Any advice?

If you want to get your horror work published, the most writer-friendly site around (IMO) is Library of the Living Dead.

http://libraryofthelivingdead.lefora.com/

The main categories for submissions are 'Library of the Living Dead', 'Library of Horror Press' and 'Library of Science Fiction and Fantasy'.

This site can be a nightmare to navigate around at first. However, you will find a number of open and closed submissions listed and will soon get the hang of things.

I've also had success recently with Pill Hill Press, athough some of their latest anthologies come without a contributor's copy!

http://www.pillhillpress.com/open-s...sions.html

Also, if you join any number of small writers' forums, you often get the heads up on anthologies seeking submissions.

Good luck

Paul

You're right, the site is terribly confusing. I submitted a few stories but on a lot of them was told those had been long closed. Some of them though were still open. Waiting for word on whether I'll make it in or not.

I'd really love to just be published once. It's always been a dream of mine. I used to write stories ALL the time growing up. When I moved out on my own I had a trunk full of notebooks filled from front to back.

If you're not regularly on that site, it's best to check the title of the threads (which often tell you whether an anthology's open or closed), or else look at the initial posting for a deadline of submission.

Recently I've submitted to 'Fearology 2' and the 'Make you Flinch' anthologies, and I've noted down which ones are still open that I'm interested in.

If you regularly go to the LotLD site and make friends there, I know people edit each other's work and offer advice. It's quite a writing community, in fact.

Anyhow, good luck with navigating the boards.

Paul

I Read Dawn Of The Dreadfuls.

not one mention of the bible??????????....oh how i will get it for this comment.....oh what about Frankenstein...

Frankenstein technically isn't a zombie book

neither is pride and prejudice :p

Never read pride and prejudice soz but the bible really

the bible, of course, dude dies and comes back from the dead

So Jesus is a zombie

I've read a few zombie novels but so far...none of them have really been good... I mean, the zombie survival guide was interesting but none of the stories of other zombie books were very memorable...

We are talking about classics LIke The Bible or Frankenstein so books 100 years old or more

I've been wanting to read some of the books mentioned by OP. Finally I might be able to finish some classics. As long as I remember to leave the zombies out, I'll seem like a really smart and moderately civilized person at parties. BD

I live in China, where good English lit of any kind is difficult and expensive to obtain. Recently however I had a trip abroad (to "foreignland") and picked up a few books, including Meowmorphosis, a parody of Kafka's Metamorphosis. Travelling salesman wakes up one morning and discovers that he's been transformed into a fuzzy, cuddly, cute giant kitten. Good writing, but unless you're a big Kafka fan, it can get tiring. I also saw (but didn't buy) Android Karenina, Sense and Sensibility and Seamonsters, Dawn of the Dreadfuls (prequel to PP&Z), and Dreadfully Ever After (sequel to PP&Z). There's a lot out there!