The Living Dead

De: George A. Romero, Daniel Kraus

Narrado por: Bruce Davison, Lori Cardille, Daniel Kraus

“A horror landmark and a work of gory genius.” (Joe Hill, New York Times best-selling author of The Fireman)

New York Times best-selling author Daniel Kraus completes George A. Romero's brand-new masterpiece of zombie horror, the massive novel left unfinished at Romero's death!

George A. Romero invented the modern zombie with Night of the Living Dead, creating a monster that has become a key part of pop culture. Romero often felt hemmed in by the constraints of film-making. To tell the story of the rise of the zombies and the fall of humanity the way it should be told, Romero turned to fiction. Unfortunately, when he died, the story was incomplete.

Enter Daniel Kraus, co-author, with Guillermo del Toro, of the New York Times best seller The Shape of Water (based on the Academy Award-winning movie) and Trollhunters (which became an Emmy Award-winning series), and author of The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch (an Entertainment Weekly Top 10 Book of the Year). A lifelong Romero fan, Kraus was honored to be asked, by Romero's widow, to complete The Living Dead.

Set in the present day, The Living Dead is an entirely new tale, the story of the zombie plague as George A. Romero wanted to tell it.

It begins with one body.

A pair of medical examiners find themselves battling a dead man who won’t stay dead.

It spreads quickly.

In a Midwestern trailer park, a Black teenage girl and a Muslim immigrant battle newly-risen friends and family. On a US aircraft carrier, living sailors hide from dead ones while a fanatic makes a new religion out of death. At a cable news station, a surviving anchor keeps broadcasting while his undead colleagues try to devour him. In DC, an autistic federal employee charts the outbreak, preserving data for a future that may never come.

Everywhere, people are targeted by both the living and the dead.

We think we know how this story ends.

We. Are. Wrong.

©2020 George A. Romero and Daniel Kraus (P)2020 Macmillan Audio

Everything a Romero fan could ask for.

You can tell that Daniel Kraus was really trying to keep the spirit of George Romero in this book. It's delightful, as much as a book about the end of the world as we know it, the rebirth of that world, and the unsteady and calamitous first steps of humanity afterwards can be. The performances by both readers is great, especially when voicing one of the book's Trump-like antagonists, and enhances the experience measurably.

Bottom line, if you like zombie fiction, this is a must have. If you like stories about suffering and redemption and loss and hope, then this is a must have. You won't regret it.

Zombie, Zombie..

It almost felt like Romero was still amongst us living dead. in true fashion this book points out only to well the nightmare that is humanity.

The only thing I wished this book had would be a full cast, having only 2 actors (who did a fantastic job 👏) just wasn't enough to give this work justice.

Overall I had a grand time with this and only feel completely depressed because there may never be another..

Zombie rats?

I hate to say it, the epilogue was the best part of the book. The first half of the story is classic Romero, it starts with patient zero at the beginning of the apocalypse. We meet the main characters and we go back and forth as we learn about their tails of survival. Then the hook takes a strange shift and jumps 10-15 years into the future. This ruined the story for me. But alas, I’m still glad the book exists even if it wasn’t completely Romero’s creation. It was fun revisiting the world he created…even if I don’t agree with the idea of zombie rats.

Not Romeros best.

This is not Romeris best. I put I right there with Survival of the Dead and Diary of the Dead.

It starts out well enough but it is very long. And gets way into to much character development. But that's expected for a book this long. At about 1/2 way through I began to lose interest and at 3/4 the way I was bored out of my mind. The last few chapters got my attention as I knew I was nearing the end. I will not spoil it for you. But for me the ending was very disappointing.

It was too long, too much character development and the story meandered just too much. Romero created the genre and the genre will go on. With other writers and storylines to carry it forward.

How each person went through a different journey and it wasn’t confusing following it

Great living dead story on wish there was a movie too. George world is so much bigger than the movies