Cultural interest in the zombie tends to go through peaks and troughs, usually related to news that George A Romero is about to unleash his latest army of flesh-eaters. But nowadays you can barely turn a metaphorical corner without a zombie hurling itself at you in the big-screen likes of World War Z, Shaun of the Dead, Resident Evil and 28 Days Later. While in literature, there’s such a plethora of novels about the brain-chomping undead, that to get yourself noticed you have to merge Jane Austen with zombies yes, it happened, in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

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