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Elegy for the Undead

By: Matthew Vesely
Narrated by: Daniel Henning, Charlie Thurston
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Jude and Lyle's newlywed life is shattered when a vicious attack leaves Lyle infected with a disease that transforms him into a violent and often incomprehensible person. With no cure for the "zombie" virus in sight, the young husbands begin to face the last months they have together before Lyle loses himself completely. Fond remembrances of young love meet the challenges of navigating a partner's terminal illness in this bittersweet tale that explores both how we fall in love and how we say good-bye when the time comes far too soon.

©2020 Matthew Vesely (P)2020 Tantor

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This book is rarely talked about but it is one of the most beautiful yet heartbreaking love stories I have ever heard and it deserves to be much more well known. Although, this story is an allegory for loving someone through a debilitating and terminal illness, in specific points it stays true to the horror genre. Anyone who has loved someone through the downs that life can bring will relate to this story. This book is everything I love about horror. Horror that is used to provide a glimpse into difficult topics that we are so often afraid to discuss within society. This book will likely make it into my shortlist of all time favorites.

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Sad but sweet. At first I didn’t like it. I thought more zombies! Less love story. It’s all about their live together from meeting to the end and it bounces back and forth in time a lot. But in the end it worked, I came to know them and value the backstory as much as the zombie time or the after time. It was a memorable and well written book.

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