11/20/2023 0 Comments Love zombies tour![]() Not to mention there’s that whole “apocalypse” part of the zombie apocalypse. It is rather unlikely I’m going to see the apocalypse, right? In a weird way, I think that helps me come to terms with the fact that, like it or not, someday I am going to die. I’m scared of dying, but zombies give me this whole other thing to be afraid of. That’s a poem I wrote a while back, and I think it captures it. These days, though the gore and the (ahem) “deeper meanings” to zombie fiction still hold an attraction for me, I think the main reason I love them is this: Then I went through a stage of being all about the symbolism of zombies, and their uncanny nature. When I was younger I loved zombies for the gore that was associated with them. ![]() Over the years my zombie love (which is an awesome movie btw - Zombie Love (2007)) has remained strong, but not unchanged. As soon as I watched the woman throw herself at the zombie that used to be her husband and him tear a chunk out of her shoulder? Dude. That’s when, at a family Christmas dinner, my cousins, siblings and I found my uncle’s copy of Dawn of the Dead and popped it into the VCR. I’ve been fascinated with zombies since I was about eight years old. And no, when we get around to it in the alphabet anthologies I’m editing I won’t be making Z is for Zombie, but you’re damned right I still loves me some zombies. “But they are so overdone!”Īnd sure, recently there has been a freaking huge influx of zombified fiction (book-shaped and otherwise). “You still like zombies?” she asked, taking a sip of her designer coffee and looking at me like something she scraped off her shoe. She even wrote us a poem! The last stanza made me laugh. Now here’s a guest post from the lovely Rhonda Parrish. ![]() Have you STILL not joined the Summer of Zombie Blog Tour? What are you waiting for? Okay, I’ll wait. ![]()
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