Remy Porter

The big new release is Holiday of the Dead; The zombie apocalypse can really put a downer on your holiday… 38 holiday-themed zombie stories from new and established authors including Night of the Living Dead co-writer, John Russo, Tony Burgess, Shaun Jeffrey, Rod Glenn, Iain McKinnon, Matt Hilton, David Dunwoody, Wayne Simmons, Bowie V Ibarra, Joe McKinney, A P Fuchs, Thomas Emson and Eric S Brown. Over 500 pages crammed full of flesh-eating horror and dark humour from the cream of UK, US and Canadian talent. Theme parks, serial killers, seaside resorts, Christmas, Thanksgiving and fishing trips. You’ll scream, you’ll laugh and you might even shed a tear… Holiday zombie horror has never been so entertaining.

I think the remake of the film will probably find ways to improve the pacing of the original film, as the remake of Insomnia managed to do. Daniel Craig is an excellent actor - I think it could be good.

It was the last zombie novel I read too - Really enjoyed it! I popped a review on Amazon.

I think it has a great crime plot. I think anyone who appreciates a great crime novel will enjoy it, be it male or female. I'll certainly be aiming to elevate the 'detective' aspects of my next novel after reading this gold standard book.

I finished The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo a few days ago. I thought it was excellent, and grabbed the dvd yesterday. The film's good too, although more of a companion piece for my money. In fact if you haven't read the book it might be a little confusing at times as the film makers hit 'fast-forward' to cram the 800 page plot into a 2 hour film. The female character Salander is a very original creation, and I think she elevates the novel above other good crime novels.

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You wrote - Did you take note of my post? - And then it just got confusing. Lets forget it! Lol

I thought you were saying something about kindles earlier?

Didn't see you there! Lol Might get a kindle for Xmas. They're the future! Lol

Here's a list for you to be getting on with! Lol Plenty of insights in all of them Tomes of the Dead: The Words of their Roaring by Matthew Smith Domain of the Dead by Iain McKinnon Dead Beat by Iain McKinnon Autumn by David Moody Autumn: The City by David Moody Flu by Wayne Simmons Deadfall by Shaun Jeffrey The Estuary by Derek Gunn Zombie Britannica by Thomas Emson Autumn: The Human Condition by David Moody

Dennis Lehane is one of my favourite authors. Shutter Island is inspired - The film was a pale shadow really, and even fiddled with the books ending to poor effect I thought. I'm surprised people haven't emphasized how brilliant Lehane's Kenzie-Gennaro series is; A Drink Before the War (1994) Darkness, Take My Hand (1996) Sacred (1997) Gone, Baby, Gone (1998) Prayers for Rain (1999) Moonlight Mile (2010) I haven't read the first or the last, but the rest are unmissable. Also loved the film version of Gone, Baby, Gone.

I've had The Strain delivered from England the other day. It's looks really interesting. And also I agree, World War Z is exceptional. Should be the biggest budget zombie movie of all time in the next two years. I believe it's in pre-production.

I found the comment 'far more than a zombie book' a little sarky too. No problem though. Currently reading The Girl With A Dragon Tattoo, although without looking I'm guessing there is a million comments here on that book already.

It's much more than a zombie book is it? Well plenty of zombie novels I know are also happy to dead with other subtexts. I know mine had plenty ...read any zombie novels just out of interest?

Do you like to buy horror novels as kindles? Mine seems to do far better in that format. Upto 788 overall in paid kindles today, (9th in horror).

The Woman in Black stage play was seriously scary, so I imagine the book was too. Going to be a film soon I hear.

Still a zombie book though, no doubt with influences at the very least from the George Romero films. It's just a 'thinking man's zombie book' Just as Let The Right One in, both book and film, had some hard-core horror moments. It's probably the starkness of these horror images contrasted against the intimate human relationships that make his work memorable to an audience. Wonder what he does next?

The book is almost entirely snubbed by zombie fans, in fact I hardly ever see mention of it on any of the related 'undead' type forums. I've not read it, but respect his Let The Right One In. Of course due to it's more literary reputation it might put a lot of the hard-boiled zombie fans off.

I really enjoyed this book. It's incredibly dark landscape the author created, all ice, tower blocks and underpasses. Loved it! Has anybody read his next book, Bringing in the Dead I think it's called?

Ghost Story by Peter Straub is a scary ...ghost story. And of course my book, Dead Beat

It was a five book deal with Hodder for 800,000 pounds. And that doesn't include the foreign rights that later sold to overseas publishers. Here's one of the original news stories from the Daily Mail; http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1012241/PC-gives-beat-capturing-800-000-publishing-deal-write-crime-novels.html

I have a particular fondness for two genres really - crime and horror. I grew up on a steady diet of James Herbert and Stephen King from my mid-teens. Probably from the time I became a police officer around 7 years ago (I'm 35 now) I started to get more into crime novels, with a love of Dennis Lehane's Patrick Kenzie novels and Harlan Coben's work. Currently starting to get into a good Australian writer I've discovered - Peter Temple. Check out his Broken Shore, it's brilliant! I should also mention Matt Hilton, who I did my police training with and now has a 800,000 pound deal with Hodder for his action novel series featuring his character, Joe Hunter ...not jealous at all! Lol

So who's willing to dive in and buy a zombie novel? (Doesn't have to be mine! Lol)