*Cell by Stephen King. Frighteningly relevant, it taps into our modern phobias concerning technology and terrorism. The opening section dramatizing the "zombie" outbreak in Boston is as good a hook as King has ever written.
*Green Eyes by Lucius Shepard.
A lushly-detailed Southern Gothic/quasi-S.F. masterpiece. One of the first books to transform the zombie figure into a sympathetic protagonist.*Ladies Night by Jack Ketchum. Hard-core homage to George Romero's Night of the Living Dead, in which beleaguered males square off against legions of infected females in New York City. The action here is fast-paced, but the reader will be slow to forget the various scenes of bloody mayhem.
*The Damnation Game by Clive Barker. Not strictly a zombie novel, but the passages employing the unwittingly undead Anthony Breer as the viewpoint character are absolutely amazing.
*The Reapers Are the Angels by Alden Bell. Cormac McCarthy's The Road meets AMC's The Walking Dead. A supreme work of post-apocalyptic fiction, filled with unforgettable characters.
*The Rising by Brian Keene. The book that ostensibly launched the zombie renaissance in pop culture. Features a terrific--and truly terrifying--premise: fugitive demons inhabiting and reani-mating human and animal corpses all across the globe.
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