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751864e
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"Don't stop there. I suppose there are also, what, vampires and werewolves and zombies?" "Of course there are. Although you mostly find zombies farther south, where the voudun priests are." "What about mummies? Do they only hang around Egypt?" "Don't be ridiculous. No one believes in mummies."
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mummies
jace-wayland
werewolf
zombies
vampire
joke
sarcasm
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Cassandra Clare |
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a0ba852
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Often, a school is your best bet-perhaps not for education but certainly for protection from an undead attack.
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revenge
shakespeare
prospero
tempest
mercy
zombies
school
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Max Brooks |
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72d0927
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"This is the part in the movie where that guy says, "Zombies? What zombies?" just before they eat his brains. I don't want to be that guy."
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movie-reference
zombies
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Holly Black |
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fd3dd8b
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I just find it interesting that kids apparently used to cry when Bambi's mother died. George and I both held our breaths, and then cheered when she didn't reanimate and try to eat her son.
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shaun
zombies
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Mira Grant |
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fcd7b6e
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I came to the conclusion a while ago that there is nothing romantic or supernatural about loving someone: Love is the privilege of being responsible for another. It was, for a time, what kept me going: Each morning, for a little while, I got to feel the weight of the yoke on my back as I pulled the ancient cart of my species.
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privilege
zombies
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John Green |
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10377f4
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I will not negotiate with the undead!
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zombies
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David Wellington |
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2aa3f21
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Americans worship technology. It's an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist.
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max-brooks
world-war-z
zombie
science-fiction
zombies
technology
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Max Brooks |
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1df85b6
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Let me make sure I have this straight. The cavalry just now rode into town and it's a Czech Gypsy porn-star zombie killer. Have I got that right?
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zombies
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Richard Kadrey |
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3fb4900
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"Hey, Ms. P," Tad called, "what's going on?" She let out a slow breath before she answered. "You won't believe this... Brian Murrey tried to eat Scott Morgan." Nick's eyes widened at the unexpected explanation. Had he heard that right?"
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nick
odd
weird
zombies
strange
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Sherrilyn Kenyon |
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8604e61
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"Everyone is born a freak," notes Hayley. "Every newborn baby, wet and hungry and screaming, is a fresh-hatched freak who wants to have a good time and make the world a better place. . . . Most teenagers wind up in high school. And high school is where the zombification process becomes deadly."
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high-school
zombies
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Laurie Halse Anderson |
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b4551d6
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" Rachel could see Corinne talking to Jason, but they were too far ahead to hear.
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rebellion
humor
seeds
brandon
mull
zombies
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Brandon Mull |
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f3ff774
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"So why are you so mad at me for kissing you?" "Because you took too long. If you'd done that, say, three years ago, we wouldn't have only had one kiss before we both get horribly mutilated." --
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young-adult
romantic
romance-funny
ushers
werewolves
zombies
vampires
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Rusty Fischer |
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c8dd12c
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I'm not the one going for a biology degree. I'm just a philosophy major who eats people.
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funny
humor
parasites
zombies
vampires
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Scott Westerfeld |
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311cc9e
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I suppose I knew on an intellectual level that graves weren't especially made for getting out of. I mean, you start with a hermetically sealed casket and then you dump six feet of dirt on top of it. Over time the earth gets compacted, which can't make it easy to dig through. So even if you're a very angry and determined zombie, you've kind of got your work cut out for you just escaping from the grave. Which was, I suppose, why we got hit with an initial wave of zombie bugs, birds and rodents. I bet some people would say if you've never picked undead mosquitoes out of your teeth, you've never lived. Under that definition, I'd be just as happy to have not lived, thanks.
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zombies
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C.E. Murphy |
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e07e193
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The truth was, neither the Central Intelligence Agency nor any of the other official and unofficial U.S. intelligence organizations have ever been some kind of all-seeing, all-knowing, global illuminati. For starters, we never hand that kind of funding.
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zombies
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Max Brooks |
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570aed6
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"Just try it," he murmurs, reaching over to cover my hand gently. And I think, Whoa, that's never happened before! Then: Is he just doing that because he thinks Wyatt is interested? And, finally, this: Who the hell cares?!"
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vampire-romance
zombies
young-adult-fiction
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Rusty Fischer |
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ad2e426
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But no matter what happens to the surviving humans, there will always be the walking dead.
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zombies
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Max Brooks |
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2c36213
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Shall I kill her now? Shall I not even investigate, but kill her and burn her? His throat moved. Such thoughts were a hideous testimony to the world he had accepted; a world in which murder was easier than hope.
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murder
death
change
hope
murderer
decision
zombies
dead
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Richard Matheson |
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2bf593b
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Mark Spitz had met plenty of the divine-retribution folks over the months. This was their moment; they were umbrella salesmen standing outside a subway entrance in a downpour. The human race deserved the plague, we brought it on ourselves for poisoning the planet, for the Death of God, the calculated brutalities of the global economic system, for driving primordial species to extinction: the entire collapse of values as evidenced by everything from nuclear fission to reality television to alternate side of the street parking. Mark Spitz could only endure these harangues for a minute or two before he split. It was boring.The plague was the plague. You were wearing galoshes, or you weren't.
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devine-retribution
blame
zombies
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Colson Whitehead |
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a9887f4
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It was a high ceilinged room with tall, large-panes windows. Apart from the doorway was the desk where book had been checked out in days when books were still being checked out. He stood there for a moment looking around the silent room, shaking his head slowly. All these books, he thought, the residue of a planet's intellect, the scrapings of futile minds, the leftovers, the potpourri of artifacts that had no power to save men from perishing.
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metaphor
library
books
death
apocalypse
decay
empty
zombies
dead
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Richard Matheson |
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7357952
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Why don't you check out those teenagers in the middle row? They've been going at it like dogs in heat ever since the previews. They're probably both werewolves. And even if they aren't, you should throw them out on principle alone.
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werewolves
zombies
young-adult-fiction
ya
vampires
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Rusty Fischer |
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5ddc8cd
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Again he shook his head. The world's gone mad, he thought. The dead walk about and I think nothing of it. The return of corpses has become trivial in import. How quickly one accepts the incredible if only one sees it enough!
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humour
death
change
corpses
normality
undead
usual
zombies
dead
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Richard Matheson |
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82be3a7
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Suppose I was able to get to court, and the zombies followed me there, and they ate all the people's brains who were in the court?' 'This is Trenton,' Lula said. 'You might not notice.
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zombies
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Janet Evanovich |
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ad71d19
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"Sure, zombies can "be a metaphor." They can represent the oppressed, as in Land of the Dead, or humanity's feral nature, as in 28 Days. Or racial politics or fear of contagion or even the consumer unconscious (Night of the Living Dead, Resident Evil, Dawn of the Dead). We could play this game all night. But really, zombies are not "supposed to be metaphors." They're supposed to be friggin' zombies. They follow the Zombie Rules: they rise from death to eat the flesh of the living, they shuffle in slow pursuit (or should, anyway), and most important, they multiply exponentially. They bring civilization down, taking all but the most resourceful, lucky and well-armed among us, whom they save for last. They make us the hunted; all of us. That's the stuff zombies are supposed to do. Yes, they make excellent symbols, and metaphors, and have kick-ass mythopoeic resonance to boot. But their main job is to follow genre conventions, to play with and expand the Zombie Rules, to make us begin to see the world as a place colored by our own zombie contingency plans. [...]
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zombies
stories
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Scott Westerfeld |
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7e30656
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Jett Gallatin expected trouble in Alsop, Texas--but not zombies.
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zombies
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Mercedes Lackey |
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499c8b1
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It was the sound of the god of death from one of the forgotten religions, the one that got it right, upstaging the pretenders with their billions of duped faithful. Every god ever manufactured by the light of cave fires to explain the thunder or calling forth the fashionable supplications in far-flung temples was the wrong one. He had come around after all this time, preening as he toured the necropolis, his kingdom risen at last.
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zone-one
zombies
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Colson Whitehead |
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5dd540e
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The snow drifts into our zombie mouths crawling with grease and curses and tobacco flakes and cavities and boyfriend/girlfriend juice, the stain of lies. For one moment we are bot failed tests and broken condoms and cheating on essays; we are crayons and lunch boxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds. For one breath everything feels better.
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kids
growing-up
teenagers
zombies
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Laurie Halse Anderson |