{"id":19949,"date":"2018-02-19T10:52:19","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T14:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=19949"},"modified":"2018-02-19T10:52:19","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T14:52:19","slug":"the-living-dead-by-george-romero-daniel-kraus-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=19949","title":{"rendered":"The Living Dead\u00a0by George Romero & Daniel Kraus is Coming!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Before he died George Romero was working on a zombie novel.\u00a0\u00a0Daniel Kraus (co-author of The Shape of Water novel with\u00a0Guillermo Del Toro) has been hired to pull together Romero’s final zombie tale.\u00a0 Kraus is excited about working on this project…<\/p>\n

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\u201cI could talk all day about George. He\u2019s the reason I\u2019m a writer… Some of [the book] was in tremendous, publish-ready state… Other parts, near of the end of what he wrote, were sketchier, clearly intended to be fleshed out later…<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s exciting about the novel, though, is…It\u2019s huge. It\u2019s a massively scaled story, a real epic, the kind no one ever gave him the budget for in film. In a book, of course, there is no budget, and in his pages you can feel his joy of being able, at last, to do every single thing he wanted.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The<\/span> Living<\/span> Dead<\/span>\u00a0<\/em>will be released by Tor in Fall 2019.\u00a0 Here’s a synopsis:<\/p>\n

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On October 24th, John Doe rises from the dead. Assistant Medical Examiner Luis Acocella and his assistant Charlene Rutkowksi are vivisecting him when it happens, and so begins a global nightmare beyond comprehension.<\/p>\n

\u201cGreer Morgan is a teenager living in a trailer park, and when the dead begin their assault, the true natures of her neighbors are revealed. Chuck Chaplin is a pretty-boy cable-news anchor, and the plague brings sudden purpose to his empty life.<\/p>\n

\u201cKarl Nishimura is the helmsman of the U.S.S. Vindicator, a nuclear submarine, and he battles against a complete zombie takeover of his city upon the sea. And meanwhile, a mysterious woman named Etta Hoffmann records the progress of the epidemic from a bunker in D.C., as well as the broken dreams and stubborn hopes of a nation not ready to give up.<\/p>\n

\u201cSpread across three separate time periods and combining Romero\u2019s biting social commentary with Kraus\u2019s gift for the beautiful and grotesque, the book rockets forward as the zombie plague explodes, endures, and finally, in a shocking final act, begins to radically change.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Sources: Entertainment Weekly<\/a> and \/Film<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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