Zombie Command

Announced back in March, Quirk Books latest zombie opus, Night of the Living Trekkies recently had the cover art revealed.

The premise of Night of the Living Trekkies should be the stuff those attending Star Trek cons dream of:

It’s Galaxy Quest meets Dawn of the Dead when all hell breaks loose at a Star Trek convention – and the world’s only hope for survival rests in the hands of some very determined fanboys!

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A new zombie novel takes on the question nobody was asking; What if The Beatles were zombies?

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, IT’S TIME TO REALLY MEET THE BEATLES.

For John Lennon, a young, idealistic zombie guitarist with dreams of global domination, Liverpool seems the ideal place to form a band that could take over the world. In an inspired act, Lennon kills and reanimates local rocker Paul McCartney, kicking off an unstoppable partnership. With the addition of newly zombified guitarist George Harrison and drummer/Seventh Level Ninja Lord Ringo Starr, the Beatles soon cut a swath of bloody good music and bloody violent mayhem across Europe, America, and the entire planet.

In this searing oral history, discover how the Fab Four climbed to the Toppermost of the Poppermost while stealing the hearts, ears, and brains of smitten teenage girls. Learn the tale behind a spiritual journey that resulted in the dismemberment of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Marvel at the seemingly indestructible quartet’s survival of a fierce attack by Eighth Level Ninja Lord Yoko Ono. And find out how the boys escaped eternal death at the hands of England’s greatest zombie hunter, Mick Jagger.

Through all this, one mystery remains: Can the Beatles sublimate their hunger for gray matter, remain on top of the charts, and stay together for all eternity? After all, three of the Fab Four are zombies, and zombies live forever…

This seems overtly inspired by urban legend that Paul McCartney died in 1966 and was replaced by a look and sound a like.

Conspiracy theory gold but they do make some good points. Until we manage to get our hands on a copy when it’s released on June 22nd, we won’t know exactly what it’s about but until then you can keep up to date over on the Facebook page.

After such glowing praise for the Combat Reports in Roger Ma’s The Zombie Combat Manual review, we can now let you read one of them in full.

Make the jump to read Thomas Donner’s account of the zombocalypse.

While I have been known for mocking trailers for books it’s mostly because all they do is show a video of the text from the blurb on the back of the book. If they were all as COMPLETELY AWESOME as this though, I’d say every book should have a trailer.

*UPDATE* This rumour has been debunked by Pride and Prejudice and Zombies author Seth Graham-Smith himself. PPZ is still planned to be made into a feature length movie though.

Having been followed by this Twitter account it would seem that Deadline Productions are creating a 6 part TV series of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

Of course, what the Twitter account fails to provide any details on is who Deadline Productions are, when the series will be coming to TV or any other details about the show.

Using our awesome powers of looking at a computer monitor, their Twitter background has a UK Channel 4 logo on it, but whether that’s just an image they’re using or not is currently unclear.

We’ve reached out the possible production company and Channel 4 to see if we can find out more info.