The Zombie Survival Guide - Max Brooks [0]
Copyright © 2009 by Max Brooks
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Three Rivers Press, an imprint of the
Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Brooks, Max.
The zombie survival guide : recorded attacks / text by Max Brooks;
illustrations by Avatar Press. — 1st ed.
1. Zombies—Comic books, strips, etc. 2. Graphic novels. I. Avatar Press. II. Title.
PN6727.B7564Z66 2008
791.5’6973—dc22 2008011753
eISBN: 978-0-307-88823-5
v3.1
To Michelle and Henry,
my twin pillars
CONTENTS
Cover
Other Books by this Author
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
About the Author
An excerpt from The Zombie Survival Guide
An excerpt from World War Z
The Zombie Survival Guide
World War Z
Will You Survive the Zombie Wars?
The Zombie Survival Guide is your key to survival against the hordes of undead who may be stalking you right now. Learn zombie physiology and behavior, defense tactics and weaponry, ways to outfit your home for a long siege, and how to survive and adapt in any terrain. This is a book that can save your life.
Read an excerpt
ZombieSurvivalGuide.com
The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. World War Z reflects the full scope and duration of that dreadful time, chronicling the recorded testimony of the men, women, and sometimes children who came face-to-face with the living—or at least the undead—hell of the Zombie War.
“Addictively readable … a debut that will grab you as tightly as a dead man’s fist.”
—Entertainment Weekly
“Probably the most topical and literate scare since Orson Welles’s War of the Worlds radio broadcast.”—Dallas Morning News
Read an excerpt
WorldWarZ.net
The undead surround us. Infection rates are growing exponentially. How can you be sure who’s a zombie before he tries to bite? Don’t be foolish with your most precious asset: life. The Zombie Survival Guide Scanner iPhone app is your first line of defense in an undead world. An unscanned friend … a potential zombie.
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Excerpt from Max Brooks Zombie Survival Guide
He comes from the grave, his body a home of worms and filth. No life in his eyes, no warmth of his skin, no beating of his breast. His soul, as empty and dark as the night sky. He laughs at the blade, spits at the arrow, for they will not harm his flesh. For eternity, he will walk the earth, smelling the sweet blood of the living, feasting upon the bones of the damned. Beware, for he is the living dead.
—OBSCURE HINDU TEXT, CIRCA 1000 B.C.E.
ZOM-BIE: (Zom‘be) n. also ZOM-BIES pl. 1. An animated corpse that feeds on living human flesh. 2. A voodoo spell that raises the dead. 3. A Voodoo snake god. 4. One who moves or acts in a daze “like a zombie.” [a word of West African origin]
What is a zombie? How are they created? What are their strengths and weaknesses? What are their needs, their desires? Why are they hostile to humanity? Before discussing any survival techniques, you must first learn what you are trying to survive.
We must begin by separating fact from fiction. The walking dead are neither a work of “black magic” nor any other supernatural force.
Their origin stems from a virus known as Solanum, a Latin word used by Jan Vanderhaven, who first “discovered” the disease.
SOLANUM: THE VIRUS
Solanum works by traveling through the bloodstream, from the initial point of entry to the brain. Through means not yet fully understood, the virus uses the cells of the frontal lobe