Posts tagged dying to live
Zombie Lit Pioneer: Kim Paffenroth [INTERVIEW]
When Kim Paffenroth released his first undead novel, Dying to Live, no one really knew anything about him, and some even assumed he was a female author because of his name. Several novels and anthologies later, Paffenroth is easily one of the most recognizable faces at the horror cons, and has become the Stephen King of zombies (back when King […]
Historical Zombie Fiction: “Valley of the Dead”
Unlike the spliced-together novel Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Valley of the Dead is an original story inspired by Dante’s Inferno (the first volume of The Divine Comedy). Kim Paffenroth, a professor of Religious Studies, best known for his zombie series Dying to Live (third installment coming out in October 2010) and Orpheus and the Pearl, explains in his prologue […]
Zombies Are Getting More Complicated
A few years ago, I read a zombie book titled Dying to Live: A Novel of Life Among the UndeadDying to Live: A Novel of Life Among the Undead by Kim Paffenroth. The story is about a man who finds a survival group at a museum, and all the horrible things (by horrible, I mean the kind of shit that […]
