World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

The Walking Dead returns on February 8 with its mid-season premiere, and I, for one, have my “I <3 Daryl Dixon” wristband on in preparation. Even in this time of excitement, it’s still important to remember the corpses that, er, cleared the path for our current undead addiction. There’s probably no easier way to get horror fans […]

Sometimes you want your beach reads as light and fluffy as the foam atop a piña colada. And sometimes you want something with a little more heft, a book more suited to reading alongside a Dark and Stormy. When you’re looking for the kind of beach reading that won’t fade from memory even faster than […]

All literature is open to interpretation; that’s one of the main attractions of reading—that ability to take someone’s words and make of them a mental picture of your choosing. Still, reality requires that we all agree on a few fundamentals: the Sun rises in the East, lager has been ruined forever by Coors Lite, Hair Metal was […]

Zombies: they just won’t die. Every fictional trend has its moment, but zombies seem to be having a lifetime. Not only does The Walking Dead continue to amass mind-boggling ratings, but it’s now produced a spinoff series, Fear the Walking Dead. Adding to the scraggly bands of survivors is the cast of Z Nation, which […]