![]() ![]() The Girl With All the Gifts started out as a 36-page short story in a 2012 anthology edited by Charlaine Harris (of Sookie Stackhouse fame) and Toni LP Kelner, which Carey then developed into a best-selling novel. In Carey’s deliciously dystopian future Britain, they look like kids. Creepy video games like The Last of Us have even created sub-species of zombie and, like us, they come in all shapes and sizes. ![]() Now zombies can run, become pets, some can think or fall in love, some even co-exist with ‘normal’ humans. But audiences get bored easily, so they mutated. Of course there were a few B.R (Before Romero) zombie movies, but he was the one to hit upon a craze and run with it, turning Night of the Living Dead into a franchise, infecting cinema, TV and video games with shambling, brain-hungry, flesh-poor creatures. The human race is simply too important to stay dead, and our obsession with death makes zombies all the more appealing as a narrative device as a threat, an opportunity, a monster, a mirror. Zombies, the undead, the living dead, the damned, walkers, biters, rotters, PDS sufferers… and now ‘hungries.’ We’re obsessed with walking corpses – or at least writers of books, screenplays and graphic novels (and Mike Carey is all three) are. ![]()
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