George A. Romero 9 min read

Trapped in a lonely farmhouse as the newly risen dead shamble in from the darkness, a handful of strangers fight through one endless night to survive the end of the world.

This novelization of George A. Romero's 1968 film presents the landmark story that launched the modern zombie genre. Relentless, terrifying, hugely influential. Read it for the foundational tale of the flesh-eating dead, a claustrophobic nightmare that reshaped horror forever.

In its time

Published in 1968, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

9 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).