The Post-Zombie

The living dead have come a long way from the shambling corpses depicted by George A. Romero. While traditional zombie monsters continue to flourish—thanks in part to the ongoing popularity of The Walking Dead universe—the global community now features reanimated zombies, resurrected zombies, protagonist zombies, robotic zombies, romantic zombies, fake zombies, zombie-adjacent monsters, and post-zombie zombies.
This collection of scholarly essays considers recent and contemporary examples of zombies in fiction, literature, popular culture, and politics from around the world and makes the case that, because of the evolution of the undead, the zombie remains an important allegorical feature of horror fiction, satire, and ideological perspectives.

C. Wylie Lenz is an associate professor of English in the humanities and social sciences department at Florida Polytechnic University in Lakeland, Florida.
Angela Tenga is an associate professor at Florida Institute of Technology. Her classes focus on literature, culture, and history, while her research interests include representations of the monstrous, the construction of criminality (especially serial killers) in fiction, and early English literature.
Kyle William Bishop is a professor of English and film studies and serves as the English department chair at Southern Utah University in Cedar City, Utah. He has presented and published on a number of zombie-related texts and has authored two monographs with McFarland.

Edited by C. Wylie Lenz, Angela Tenga and Kyle William Bishop. Series Editor Kyle William Bishop
Format: softcover (6 x 9)
Pages:
Bibliographic Info: notes, bibliography, index
Copyright Date: 2025
pISBN: 978-1-4766-9580-8
eISBN: 978-1-4766-5549-9
Imprint: McFarland
Series: Contributions to Zombie Studies

“The Post-Zombie is the shot in the arm that zombie studies has needed to understand how our visions of the undead have transformed in the face of the many ongoing calamities of a tumultuous 21st century. Highly recommended.”—Gerry Canavan, Marquette University