Max Brooks on why zombies are relevant

By Jack Brummet, Horror and thriller editor

I am reading a book of short stories by Max Brooks (author of World War Z, The Zombie Survival Guide, and other stories). In the introduction, he writes:

"I never expected the Zombie Survival Guide to be published. I wrote it to read it.  The living dead continue to fascinate (and terrify) me, and the older I get, the greater my obsession grows. Zombies are a global phenomenon, the perfect lens for examining societal collapse.  They are SARS, they are AIDS.  They are the hurricane that drowned an entire city, or the 'master race' that burned an entire continent, they are an existential threat, a slate wiper, and have an ability to expose our own suicidal weaknesses; I'll never lose my fear of them."

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