Return of the Living Dead

by John Russo

Book Overview

The rare original straight-horror novel that preceded the horror-comedy screenplay by Dan O'Bannon. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 089559062X
• ISBN13: 9780895590626
• Release Date: January 1978
• Publisher: Dale Books
• Length: 147 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Great zombie story

This book was great to read. At times when I was reading it, I actually got scared. It kinda pulls you into the horrfing world that the characters are in. It was a great zombie story, that in my opinon should be adaped to film the way this story is written!! I highly recommend this book to read.

Interesting

This book was born from a screenplay written over 20 years ago and it shows. It reads like a screenplay. This was the originally intended sequel to the cult classic "Night Of The Living Dead". 10 years after the so-called "plague" was vanquished, a bus topples over in middle america. A Baptist congregation rushes to the scene of the accident(they drive metal spikes through the dead to prevent the plague from reoccuring). Needless to say the plague returns and all hell breaks loose. The last few chapters are a rehash of "Night", with our heroes running from house to house. Although the book is never boring it suffers from sequelitis. A far cry from the brillance of Romero's cinematic sequel.

A worthy follow up to a classic movie.

This book is a worthy follow up to the classic horror movie "Night of the Living Dead." It occurs ten years after the movie, and the cinematic sequels, "Dawn of the Dead" and "Day of the Dead," are not part of the story. In this version of the "Dead" universe, the first "outbreak" has been squelched and life has returned to normal, or as close to normal as it can be in a world where the dead walk and feed on the living, as is exemplified by the first chapter, which by the way will chill you to the bone. It concerns a simple family funeral but with a ghoulish twist. Plot twists are many as characters come and go (often consumed) and the book comes to a satisfying conclusion. One finds oneself wishing that Mr. Russo might return to this well someday. One caveat: The book could have greatly benefitted from a good proof reader. Typos, missing words, and other errors are frequent.