Mythical creatures: Zombies and the undead Books

Book SynopsisSurrounded by death one girl must learn what it is to live. The chilling zombie thriller, soon to be a major film staring Game of Thrones' Maisie Williams.

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Book SynopsisSchneider Wrack Was Dead.Until he wasn't. Convicted of a crime he's almost completely sure he didn't commit, executed, reanimated, then pressed into service aboard a vast trawler on the terrible world of Ocean, he was set to spend his afterlife working until his mindless corpse fell apart. But now he's woken up, trapped in a rotting body, arm-deep in the stinking meat and blubber of a sea monster, and he's not happy. It's time for the dead to rise up. From the stench and brine of Ocean to the fetid jungle of Grand Amazon, Schneider's career as a revolutionary won't be easy. But sometimes a zombie's gotta do what a zombie's gotta do.Trade Review'Weird and hilarious' - Buzzfeed. 'Surreal and occasionally horrifying' - The Daily Dot

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Book SynopsisThe necromantic arts can be hell for your love life. Toni Windsor is trying to live a quiet life in the green and pleasant county of Staffordshire—and failing! She’s a talented necromancer and only a decent estate agent, and that normal, quiet life is proving hard to find. Especially when there’s all the murders to solve. Whoever said raising zombies from the grave wasn’t a useful skill?Then along comes trouble in the form of the stunning, dashing vampire Oscar who’s waltzed into her life, looking for a new mansion. He’s got looks, heaps of money, and an open slot in his coterie with her name on it. Maybe if she’s lucky she can bag a good commission and a nice boyfriend. But things are never as easy as they seem…Trade Review“A fun filled, laugh out loud page turner.” -- NetGalley review * Netgalley *“A thrilling five-star read.” -- NetGalley review * Netgalley *“Perfect for fans of Charlaine Harris and Gail Carriger.” -- Library Journal * Library Journal *"A gory and amusing romp." -- Financial Times -- James Lovegrove * Financial Times *

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Book SynopsisMore murder. More vampires. More snogging.Toni Windsor is failing at ‘happily ever after,’ but it really isn't her fault.All she wants is true love and the perfect wardrobe, but it doesn't look like they are coming her way any time soon. Instead, there are murders to solve and zombies to raise, and she’s broken her phone again.Worst of all, her shiny new boyfriend turns out to be a jerk; maybe dating a vampire wasn’t her best decision ever?Trade Review“Perfect for fans of Charlaine Harris and Gail Carriger.” -- Library Journal on Grave Secrets“A fun filled, laugh out loud page turner.” -- NetGalley review * Netgalley *“Fun, fast debut... Fans of Charlaine Harris’s Sookie Stackhouse will want to check out Toni.” -- Publishers Weekly on Grave Secrets“A gory and amusing romp.” -- Financial Times on Grave Secrets“A thrilling five-star read.” -- NetGalley review * Netgalley *“Delightful” -- Publishers Weekly

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Book SynopsisShe’s back. She’s hungover. She’s got no idea.Estate agent by day, necromancer by night, reluctant amateur sleuth when bullied into it… Toni Windsor is already juggling life and now she has to find out who clubbed a Cornish cheese millionaire to death while he was alone in a locked room. And her diary was already full. She’s trying to keep the peace between vampire courts, a fistful of demonic contracts have just landed on her lap and – no surprise – her love life still isn’t looking great even though she’s finally dating someone who isn’t dead.Can’t a girl catch a break?Trade Review“Perfect for fans of Charlaine Harris and Gail Carriger.” -- Library Journal * Library Journal *“A fun filled, laugh out loud page turner.” -- NetGalley review * Netgalley *"A gory and amusing romp." -- Financial Times -- James Lovegrove * Financial Times *“A thrilling five-star read.” -- NetGalley review * Netgalley *

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Book SynopsisEcology of the Zombie marks a significant intervention into the fields of world literature, film studies, ecocriticism, and Gothic Studies. Arguing that the zombie is a fundamentally ecological figure, the book offers original readings of a range of cultural texts from across the Caribbean and the U.S. In its various incarnations - from enslaved body toiling on fields, to vacant-eyed, light-skinned female imprisoned within patriarchal structures, to the cannibalistic mass zombie roaming apocalyptic scenarios - the zombie speaks powerfully to capitalism's systematic degradation of land and labour. Indeed, the figure gives expression to the metabolic rifts through which the modern world-system has unfolded. Boldly intervening in current debates around Gothic imaginaries, Ecology of the Zombie argues for the centrality of the Caribbean monstrous to understanding Gothic ecologies due to the region's pivotal role in the emergence of capitalist modernity. The book is distinguished by its striking comparative analyses, bringing the work of René Depestre, for example, into conversation with that of Ralph Ellison, reading Erna Brodber’s Myal in conjunction with George Romero’s Dawn of the Dead, and examining The Stepford Wives alongside the fiction of Pedro Cabiya. In so doing, it provides an important new interpretation of the cultural history of the zombie.Trade Review"This is a brilliant, highly original book that offers a wholly new perspective on the zombie figure as one that does not simply ‘possess an environmental history’ but which both mediates and contributes to the logics shaping global ecologies." Sharae Deckard, University College DublinTable of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1: Greening Zombie TheoryChapter 2: The Sugar-Zombie, Race and Cash-Crop MonoculturesChapter 3: The Zombie-in-the-House, Nature and the ColoniesChapter 4: Energy and the Emergence of the Petro-ZombieChapter 5: Zombies-of-Waste and Neoliberal ExhaustionConclusion

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