Romero To Publish His Zombie Origins In New Book
The man who started it all (well, for all intents and purposes) George A. Romero has recently signed a 2 book deal with Headline Publishing in the UK to write about the origin of his zombies.
Presumably starting in San Diego with a corpse sitting up in the morgue (Diary of the Dead), the book will focus on how the zombies came to be and will hopefully for the first time explain exactly what a zombie can and can’t do.
Hopefully Romero will stick with ‘cosmic radiation’ as the cause (hinted at in Night of the Living Dead) and not kowtow to any pressure to make them of the more modern viral interpretations. As Romero’s zombies also maintain some semblance of their former lives perhaps we will find out exactly how much and what they remember.
Arguably, there’s nobody better qualified on the subject of zombies although Max Brooks, Zombie Survival Guide, comes close and for an apparent $300,000 advance the publishers must be hoping that the public want to learn from the master.
