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The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection From the Living Dead, published in 2003, is a satirical survival manual that deals with the potentiality of an undead attack. Its author, Max Brooks, lays out detailed plans for the average citizen to survive zombie uprisings of multiple intensities.
The book's humorous value comes, its fans say, from its utterly deadpan delivery. It exhaustively explores the zombie menace in incredibly complicated levels of detail, looking at a giant list of potential weapons, the biological makeup of the zombie, anti-zombie tactics in different strategic situations, possible vehicles to use during an attack by ghouls, and so forth. Throughout, the book cites unnamed "research" as the backup for its arguments, and frequently warns the reader that the book's advice is ignored at the reader's own peril, perhaps resulting in "cold hands gripping your arm and dirty, worn teeth biting into your flesh." The deadly seriousness with which Brooks delivers this well-ordered material is the source of much of the delight its fans have derived from it.
The book attempts to definitively state the rules for zombie-related canon. This includes "facts" such as: zombies can only be killed by destroying their brains, zombies do not possess any special powers other than their reanimation and ability to use all sense equally rather than being sight-oriented, zombies are created by the virus Solanum, and so forth.
External link
The Zombie Survival Guide Website
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