Face-Gnawer Nailed in China
America's zombie apocalypse seems to have infected China. A bus driver drinking with friends during lunch in the city of Wenzhou in southeast China suddenly ran into the streets, pounced on a random...
View ArticleDetroit's Salvation: Zombie Theme Park?
You probably won't see this in any Chrysler commercials. Instead of tearing down some of Detroit's sketchier neighborhoods, a local entrepreneur thinks he can rejuvenate the city by turning it over to...
View ArticleFor Sale: $24K Zombie Survival Kit
If you're like us, you lie awake each night wondering, "Am I properly supplied in the event of a zombie apocalypse?" If your answer to that question is anything other than a resounding, "Yes!" then...
View ArticleZombies Cream Westboro Protest
It was the afterlife vs. the undead: Protesters from the Westboro Baptist Church encountered a protest of their own on Friday. Ersatz zombies organized on Facebook to counter Westboro's appearance at...
View ArticleSecurity Firm Launching 'Zombie Apocalypse' Training
Those of you who lie awake nights worrying about a massive assault by the undead can rest a bit easier. A California security firm is offering training next month at its annual counterterrorism summit...
View ArticleCritics Fall for Zombie Love in Warm Bodies
Given the popularity shambling corpses enjoy these days, it was only a matter of time before we got Warm Bodies , an honest-to-goodness zombie romantic comedy, in which a member of the living dead...
View ArticleZombie Attack Under Way, Warns Montana TV Station
Montana's KRTV yesterday issued an emergency warning: Zombies are on the attack. The scrolling message alerted multiple counties that "dead bodies are rising from their graves" and "attacking the...
View ArticleZombies Trendiest When We're Dissatisfied
How to explain the current fascination with The Walking Dead , the "zombie walks" occurring across the country, or the televised warnings of zombie apocalypse? It's no coincidence that we're in the...
View ArticleWorld War Z Has Some Saying 'Zzzzzz'
For all the fanfare surrounding it, World War Z is a fair-to-middling zombie movie, critics say. Brad Pitt stars as a former UN investigator who takes to the skies to fight the undead menace. From the...
View ArticleWalking Dead Spinoff in the Works
AMC is nowhere near done with zombies. The network announced Monday it has greenlit a Walking Dead spinoff, reportedly called Spread the Dead . Newsy reports:
View ArticleScience Proves It: Walking Dead Can't Walk
It's Halloween, so odds are you're going to see some zombies today. But fear not, because if they were real zombies, they wouldn't be able to shamble, feed, see, or really do much of anything, Rutgers...
View ArticleTown to Man: Take Down Zombie Nativity
A suburban Cincinnati township has ordered a man to kill off his large "Zombie Nativity" scene. Sycamore Township has sent Jasen Dixon two notices of zoning violations after, officials say, they...
View ArticlePeople Paying to Be 'Trapped in Room With Zombie'
Paging Walking Dead fans: An interactive theater show is encouraging participants to channel their inner Sherlock Holmes in an end-of-the-world team game-building exercise. "Trapped in a Room With a...
View ArticleStudy Pinpoints Safest Place to Hide From Zombies
If a zombie outbreak were to strike US shores, East Coasters should head west ASAP. That recommendation comes by way of Cornell University researchers, who have modeled the statistical mechanics of,...
View ArticleFear of Zombies Stretches Back to Ancient Greece
The walking dead roamed ancient imaginations long before they found their way to your television , and the concept was far less fringe in ancient times. So say researchers inspecting 2,905 burials at...
View ArticlePanic at Zombie Fest as Gunfire Kills One, Injures 4
A Florida festival celebrating the undead turned into a real-life nightmare Saturday night after a shooting left one person dead at the scene and four injured, CNN reports. As the four injured were...
View ArticleAmazon Will Void Its Terms of Service If the Zombies Come
Your eyes may usually glaze over while reading companies' terms of service, but a paragraph buried in the ToS for Amazon's newly released game engine is worthy of your attention, CNNMoney reports....
View ArticleBrothers Convince Drugged Sister Zombie Apocalypse Is Upon Us
In an awesome new video that's gone viral, three brothers convince their sister—who was still a little high after getting her wisdom teeth removed—that the zombie apocalypse is imminent. The sister...
View ArticleBest Friends With Down Syndrome Make Epic Zombie Movie
Two best friends with Down syndrome from Rhode Island are living their dream of making an epic zombie movie and becoming celebrities, the AP reports. "Down syndrome causes us to think slower than...
View ArticleHis Zombie Books Were a Hit, but Now His Publisher Is Suing
When Seth Grahame-Smith published the hit novel Pride and Prejudice and Zombies with Hachette Book Group in 2009, which sold more than 2 million copies and was translated into more than 20 languages,...
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