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10 Great Zombie Love Stories
Zombie Romance Novels and Short Stories
While the zombie apocalypse may be a scene of fighting and survival, it can also be the setting for a great love story.
Zombies are often so associated with voraciously eating brains, that we forget that they have hearts too. (Well, I think technically the hearts are there, but I'm not exactly certain what they're doing, if anything.)
Here are my favorite zombie love stories. Curl up with a shotgun and one of these great novels for a nice evening, or give one to a friend or loved one as a caring gift that says, "If zombies are chasing us, I promise I won't trip you."
1. Warm Bodies
Warm Bodies: A Novel - by Isaac Marion
We often see zombies as the horde and not as the individual, but Warm Bodies reminds us that not all zombies are same.
This book was made into a movie released in 2013, starring Nicholas Hoult and Teresa Palmer.
We often see zombies as the horde and not as the individual, but Warm Bodies reminds us that not all zombies are same.
Now is a great time to read this book, as it was made into a movie being released February 1, 2013, starring Nicholas Hoult and Teresa Palmer.
In this unlikely love story, zombie "R" falls in love with a living girl, Julie.
R is not your average zombie with only one pleasure (eating brains). He has his hobbies. But, when Julie comes into his life, or rather undeath, everything begins to change.
Warm Bodies is sometimes dark, sometimes funny, sometimes exciting, and always interesting.
Trailer for Warm Bodies
2. Hungry For You
Hungry For You - by A.M. Harte
Hungry For You - by A.M. Harte
This book of short stories and poems is amazing!
Each story is great, and together you get a real sense of how romantic zombies are.
One thing that is great is that the stories cover a range of relationships such as zombies in love with each other, humans in love while fighting off zombies, and humans in love with zombies.
3. Dearly, Departed
Dearly, Departed - by Lia Habel
Dearly, Departed has it all. This book is jam packed with action, romance, war, and characters you'll love. And, it's steampunk to boot. (Wouldn't you love to think that if society breaks down, then the people who put it back together, do it in Victorian style?"
Set in the year 2195, in the New Victorian era, Dearly Departed is a post-apocalyptic tale written for a YA audience, but really anyone zombie fans will love it.
4. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
This book led the way for many zombie infused classic novels like The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Zombie Jim, Alice in Zombieland, The Undead World of Oz, and Grave Expectations.
It also sparked other altered classics like Jane Slayre, Android Karenina, Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, Little Vampire Women, Wuthering Bites.
5. Hungry for Your Love
Hungry for Your Love: An Anthology of Zombie Romance - (Short stories by various authors)
This collection of 21 horror/romance stories of zombie love will prove to you that love is not dead, but rather undead.
A few titles include:
"Romance Ain't Dead" by Jeremy Wagner
"I Heart Brains" by Jamie Saare
"Everyone I Love Is Dead" by Elizabeth Coldwell
"Zombified" by Isabel Roman
"Undying Love" by Regina Riley
Do You Love Zombies...or Do You Kill Them?
What will you do when the zombies come?
6. Breathers: A Zombie's Lament
Breathers: A Zombie's Lament - by S.G. Browne
This book is leading the rom-zom-com genre (romantic zombie comedy).
It's basically your classic story of a newly reanimated boy meets sexy suicide non-survivor girl at a Zombies Anonymous meeting and they fall in love.
This novel has just the right balance of tender romance and ultra-violent horror.
7. Zombie Love: The Outbreak
Zombie Love: The Outbreak: Book One of The Zombie Love Series - by Eric J. Sobolik
When the zombie outbreak starts, decisions have to be made, priorities must be set. For some, it's fighting to survive, and for others it's fighting for love. Does love surpass death?
This fast paced novel is a quick read, and worth picking up. It's especially good for YA readers.
8. Wisteria
Wisteria - by Bisi Leyton
Wisteria is an ebook that you'll love. In it is a world layered with dangers beyond the flesh earring zombies. Wisteria Kuti and a boy, Bach, must make their way to safety.
This zombie story is different than others I've read, and certainly worth the time.
9. I Kissed a Zombie, and I Liked It
I Kissed a Zombie, and I Liked It - by Adam Selzer
What do you do when you find out the guy you've fallen in love with is a zombie? That's the big question in this young adult novel.
This is a romance set in high school, with all the teenage angst that means, with zombies, with all the awesomeness that means.
10. Chivalry is Undead
Chivalry is Undead (Just Another Zombie Love Story) - By M.A. Rogers
This fast paced book has the action and zombie killing that everyone loves.
When the zombie outbreak occurs, Stephen hits the road to help a friend. He and Jessica fall in love along the way...when they aren't smashing zombie skulls, that is.
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I have got to read "Warm Bodies" lol
Fun reading list! I'll have to pick one of these up on my Kindle to read while the kids are on spring break here.
I am looking out for Pride and Prejudice and Zombies :)
Looking forward to readng a couple of these - I've been a rom zom com fan ever since I first saw Shaun of the Dead :)
This is the first I'm seeing of the "Celebrate" layout. Looks nice!
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is a classic! But I still can't associate zombies and loves stories...
I love Zombie movies... I can't wait to watch Warm Bodies :)
Ha I have now seen absolutely positively everything. You are a creative genius. A somewhat off the wall, and slightly mad creative genius, but indeed someone with a wonderfully wild sense of the unusual. I love you Zombie love stories. How romantically gruesome.
I loved this lens! I can't wait to read Warm bodies (and see the movie)... I currently have Pride, Prejudice & Zombies... LOVE!
zombie and love two great words that go great together.
I love it! Why do zombies come to mind so much when thinking about V-Day? It's quite a mystery....
Woohoo! I've been looking for new reading material. :)
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