I even have my zombie preferences. They must be shamblers, no sprinters please. They must be zero intelligent. No door openers, tool users, or ladder climbers and no learners. No magic allowed. Everything must be as scientific as possible for a story based on walking corpses. I have seen some excellent theories that don't strain your disbelief too far.

The horror lies in the tireless, relentless way they multiply and are driven to consume humanity and spread the disease. They are a joke in small numbers but a horror in herds of millions.

The TV show The Walking Dead is the most popular show on TV according to some sources, and the recent Brad Pitt flick, World War Z, was a blockbuster hit adaptation of the book of the same name. A couple of sequels are planned for the franchise.

The CDC has published an online guide titled How to survive in a zombie apocalypse. The reason being that the advice applies to any natural disaster.

Romero started it all with Night of the living dead, and he has had a lot of message in his flicks along the lines of we deserve to destroy ourselves. To his chagrin nobody much picked up his message. It is a fad that may or may not have peaked but it will surely fade away at some point. I am fan of dystopian fiction and zombies are a neat addition to end of the world plots.

A few zombie FANatics are convinced that we will eventually concoct some virus related to rabies that will create a zombie apocalypse similar to the 28 Days Later movie virus and end civilization. Many others believe that the zombies are just symbolic of the inevitable breakdown of society

WHEN HELL IS FULL, THE DEAD WILL WALK THE EARTH