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This is a 'mosaic novel' set in the near-future, when a desperate and ever-more controlling UK government decides to restore a sense of national pride with a New Festival of Britain. However, controversial plans to build on the site of an old church in South London releases a centuries-old plague that turns its victims into flesh-hungry ghouls whose bite or scratch passes the contagion on to others. Even worse, the virus may also have a supernatural origin with the power to revive the dead. Despite the attempts of the police, the military and those in power to understand and contain the infection commonly referred to as 'The Death', it soon sweeps across London, transforming everyone who comes into contact with it. With the city - and the country - falling into chaos, even a drastic attempt at a 'Final Solution' to eradicate the outbreak at its source fails to prevent it from spreading to Europe and then quickly throughout the rest of the world. Soon there is no more news coming out of Britain ...and it is up to those survivors in other countries to confront the flesh-eating invaders within their midst. Will humanity triumph over a world-wide zombie plague, or will the walking dead ultimately inherit the Earth? Told through various disparate and overlapping eye-witness accounts, through texts, e-mails, blogs, letters, diaries, transcripts, official reports and other forms of communication, a picture builds up of a world plunged into chaos - where the dead attack the living, and only one of them can be the ultimate victor. Written by some of the biggest and best-known names in horror and science fiction, these interconnected narratives create a unique vision of the End of the World brought about by a plague that may have its origins in both science and the occult. Praise for Stephen Jones: 'Horror's last maverick' - Christopher Fowler. 'Stephen Jones ...has a better sense of the genre than almost anyone in this country' - Lisa Tuttle, "The Times Books". 'The best horror anthologist in the business is, of course, Stephen Jones' - Roz Kavaney, "Time Out". 'Edited by Stephen Jones, a member of that tiny band of anthologists whose work is so reliably good that you automatically reach out and grab hold of any new volume spotted if you are wise' - Gahan Wilson, "Realms of Fantasy". 'One of the genre's most enthusiastic cheerleaders' - "Publishers Weekly".
About the Author
Stephen Jones lives in London, England. He is the winner of three World Fantasy Awards, four Horror Writers Association Bram Stoker Awards and three International Horror Guild Awards as well as being an eighteen-time recipient of the British Fantasy Award and a Hugo Award nominee. A former television producer/director and genre movie publicist and consultant, he has written, edited and co-written numerous books. He was a Guest of Honour at the 2002 World Fantasy Convention in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the 2004 World Horror Convention in Phoenix, Arizona.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
`Zombie Apocalypse' (aka Mammoth book of Zombie Apocalypse) is a collection of articles, various media transcripts, text messages, tweets, diaries and more, describing the events around a Zombie plague that was released from the Black death burial ground at Blackheath.
The first two thirds of the book are reasonably good, with enough tension and stories of survival to keep most zombie lore fans satisfied, but sadly the last third loses it's way. It starts to recount survivors novel ideas, or youtube spoof song lyrics, or film pitches and I started to skip these parts. I wanted to read the so called `real' accounts of Zombie survival, not some lame attempts at Zombie fiction as recounted by characters in a book (I am aware of the irony of this considering the whole book is fiction, but you know what I mean). There is also no real coherent narrative to this book, it is just a series of personal experiences or accounts and nothing really ties it together to tell a coherent story from beginning to end. Some of the handwritten pages got tiresome to decipher and some other aspects weren't as clear as they could've been, but despite the changing styles of text this was easy enough to read.
If you are huge fan of Zombie books then this may be worth a try at some point, but if you are new to this genre then try `World War Z' by Max Brooks first which is a similar book (I.e. lots of anecdotal evidence of a Zombie outbreak), but which is more coherent and which was done a whole letter better than this.
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The first two thirds of the book are reasonably good, with enough tension and stories of survival to keep most zombie lore fans satisfied, but sadly the last third loses it's way. It starts to recount survivors novel ideas, or youtube spoof song lyrics, or film pitches and I started to skip these parts. I wanted to read the so called `real' accounts of Zombie survival, not some lame attempts at Zombie fiction as recounted by characters in a book (I am aware of the irony of this considering the whole book is fiction, but you know what I mean). There is also no real coherent narrative to this book, it is just a series of personal experiences or accounts and nothing really ties it together to tell a coherent story from beginning to end. Some of the handwritten pages got tiresome to decipher and some other aspects weren't as clear as they could've been, but despite the changing styles of text this was easy enough to read.
If you are huge fan of Zombie books then this may be worth a try at some point, but if you are new to this genre then try `World War Z' by Max Brooks first which is a similar book (I.e. lots of anecdotal evidence of a Zombie outbreak), but which is more coherent and which was done a whole letter better than this.
Feel free to check out my blog which can be found on my profile page.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book left me with a bit of a dilemma. It started out well with the different characters blending well with the storyline. I am not a huge fan of this style of storytelling, but the start of this book made it quite compelling. As I read deeper into the book, I became less interested in the characters and could not wait to have them killed off.
That being said, the Mexican storyline was an intriguing angle and this briefly (parden the pun) resurrected my interest in the book.
However, by the end I had lost interest completely and the last two pieces of the book left me cold. I will say no more as I do not wish to spoil this for anyone else wanting to read this book. Maybe I missd the joke, if there was one.
I hate being rude about authors of books as they have invested a lot of time and effort into their product, but I feel this was an opportunity missed with regards a really good story about Zeds and London.
This book was patchy at best and the constant change of narrative became boring after a while. On the plus side, the book did generate a lot of interest from people that saw me reading it with the fantastic cover art.
That being said, the Mexican storyline was an intriguing angle and this briefly (parden the pun) resurrected my interest in the book.
However, by the end I had lost interest completely and the last two pieces of the book left me cold. I will say no more as I do not wish to spoil this for anyone else wanting to read this book. Maybe I missd the joke, if there was one.
I hate being rude about authors of books as they have invested a lot of time and effort into their product, but I feel this was an opportunity missed with regards a really good story about Zeds and London.
This book was patchy at best and the constant change of narrative became boring after a while. On the plus side, the book did generate a lot of interest from people that saw me reading it with the fantastic cover art.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
If your looking for tales of plucky individuals surviving a Zombie Fest this may not be for you.
Various contributors build up a story within a set frame work based on individual accounts, through emails,diaries and letters to loved ones (who mostly turn out to be long dead already).
It sets a good pace and with the episodic nature of some of the Diaries, blogs and Tweets keeps you turning the page.
Various contributors build up a story within a set frame work based on individual accounts, through emails,diaries and letters to loved ones (who mostly turn out to be long dead already).
It sets a good pace and with the episodic nature of some of the Diaries, blogs and Tweets keeps you turning the page.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
To date, the only book I have ever thrown across a room in disgust
Amazon recommended this book to me today, which moved me to write this review. After having read the vastly superior World War Z, I picked this book up in a shop, expecting... Read more
Published 18 days ago by Natural 20
Ok in parts
This was my first ever try at Zombie literature and It had something to make me read as many book as I have in the past 12 months. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Ashley Gilder
Where was the editorial control?
This book started off in a very promising way, and was a great read throughout ....until the Mexican element of the story. Read more
Published 2 months ago by MR M C USHER
Good Zombie book with minior problems
This book is very intresting and I love the way it uses blogs, diarys, letters, reports and such to create this fantasic zombie world, and I was very surprised at a turn that... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Adam
Good start, poor finish
It got of to a promising start, told through, journals, e-mails etc, however after 2 thirds of way through it started to lose it's edge of seat grip, by the time it got to the us... Read more
Published 4 months ago by j bryson
What World War Z should have been
Having recently read World War Z, which I found massively disappointing I was unsure of whether to give this a go but I decided to largely due to its presentation (pages laid out... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Bri
Excellent - original and capturing
Hard to put down...the variety of characters and perspectives make it a fast paced book, that is hard to put down. Highly recommendable!
Published 5 months ago by K Lowton
Not an 'entirely' wasted day
This was a Christmas gift, but not an unwelcome one, as a lover of all things undead.
I managed to get through the book in a day, largely due to the design; being short bursts... Read more
I managed to get through the book in a day, largely due to the design; being short bursts... Read more
Published 5 months ago by MrSelfDestrukt
So close to being brilliant
I bought this book on a whim, I like Zombies, and I like a good story. Scanning through a few of the pages in a shop I thought yeah, to hell with it, lets buy it and see how it... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Bungle
Interesting but different!
Not sure on the style - it's a patchy kind of story but it is interesting. I would have preferred a more linked up story. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Terror Byte
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