Product Description

Perfect for zombiephiles, video game addicts and horror movie fanatics, "Zombie Haiku" is the touching story of a zombie's gradual decay told through the intimate poetry of haiku.From infection to demise, readers will accompany the narrator on a zen journey through deserted streets and barracaded doors for every eye-popping, gut-wrenching, flesh-eating moment right up to the inevitable bullet to the brain.The book is illustrated with over 50 photos from the zombie's point of view and designed with extra blood, guts, gore and pus!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #46636 in Books
• Published on: 2008-07-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

Review
Review from Publishing News - This tickled me to death (sorry) when i saw it. Priceless. I can think of at least ten people i could buy this for, and i'm sure i'm not alone. --Publishing News

About the Author
Ryan Mecum lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, and spends most of his time watching terrible movies and reading comics. He has seen Evil Dead more times than he would care to mention, and he is a youth pastor at a Presbyterian church.

Customer Reviews

Must-Have for your Zombie Collection
It never occurred to me to look for a zombie story in something other than novel form; this book was on display by a register when I purchasing some other books. I figured since The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead(guide form, obviously) and Day by Day Armageddon (A Zombie Novel)(journal form) worked for me, I would give zombie haikus a chance.

I was pleasantly surprised to see that the haikus formed an actual story, instead of just being random haikus. Another bonus was the size of the book makes it easy to carry with me in my purse (gotta have zombie literature on me at all times).

(I haven't seen anything this original since my husband's monster truck haikus.) I was very impressed with the author's creativity. I look forward to more from this author.

A truly original book
The idea of writing a zombie novel in the Haiku style (three line poems) is one thing - but writing it from the point of view of the zombie is pure genius.
I cannot recommend this book enough - it's gory, funny and true to the zombie law as laid down by Mr Romero.
Check it out!

Mildly disappointing
I am a fan of most things zombie, and also like haiku, but for me this just didn't work. It has some good moments but ultimately the little nagging voice in my head kept on asking 'why is a zombie recording it's day to day activities?' or thinking, 'wow, that zombie retained a fairly good grasp of English'. It just required too much of a stretch of the imagination to believe that a zombie wrote of it's maruadings in a journal so that they could be recovered by one of it's would-be victims. That said it's all in good zombie fun and has some truly funny moments, as well as some pretty good snapshots of zombie life. It's a good stab at breaking new ground in the zombie tradition (or should that be a headshot?...)