Zombie Scholar

The Catalog

Shelved by medium, counted honestly

Each medium has its own collection unit, so a reprint, a remaster or a single episode never pretends to be a new work. Empty shelves are shown on purpose: they are the gap list.

What counts

Included

Works that centrally feature zombies, and works with a meaningful zombie episode, story, enemy or mode.

Labeled separately

Passing mentions. They are findable but never inflate the main counts.

Zombie adjacent

Infected people, ghouls or undead that might not be zombies get an entry only with an explanation, never silently.

Books and written fiction

2 records

Collection unit Work, then editions and formats. Anthology stories are indexed individually; ISBNs are recorded per edition so reprints never inflate the work count.

  • ZS-0001BookUnder review

    World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

    Max Brooks · 2006 also: WWZ

    Presented as interviews gathered after a worldwide war against the dead, the book moves between countries and voices to piece together how the outbreak spread, how governments and ordinary people answered it, and what recovery cost.

  • ZS-0002BookUnder review

    The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead

    Max Brooks · 2003

    A deadpan handbook that treats a zombie outbreak as a practical emergency, with advice on equipment, defensible places and travel, followed by invented case histories.

Magazines and periodicals

2 records

Collection unit Publication, then volume or issue, then article or story. ISSN, issue date and number, author, title, page range and subject works are recorded per article.

  • ZS-0007PeriodicalUnder review

    FANGORIA (magazine)

    Creators not yet recorded · 1979 to present (with interruptions, to be recorded) also: Fangoria, Fango

    An American horror film magazine known for set visits, interviews and makeup and effects coverage. Indexed here at issue and article level: a magazine record alone does not mean its zombie material has been catalogued.

  • ZS-I-0001PeriodicalUnder review

    FANGORIA Vol. 1 Issue #287

    Creators not yet recorded · 2009 (approximate, inferred from contents; to be confirmed) also: Fangoria 287

    An issue its publisher describes as featuring a visit to the set of Zombieland, alongside set visits and interviews for other horror films.

Television and streaming

1 record

Collection unit Series, then season, then episode. Broadcaster or service, region, episode identifiers and variant titles; release order kept separate from story chronology.

  • ZS-0004TelevisionUnder review

    The Walking Dead (television series)

    Frank Darabont, Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore, Charlie Adlard · 2010 to 2022 also: TWD

    A television series adapted from the comic, following a sheriff's deputy who wakes from a coma into a collapsed world and the survivors he joins.

Video games

1 record

Collection unit Game, then releases: originals, remakes, remasters, ports and editions. Zombie traits attach to the relevant enemy, mode or version.

  • ZS-0005Video gameUnder review

    Resident Evil (1996 video game)

    Capcom, Shinji Mikami · 1996 also: Biohazard, RE1

    Members of a special police unit take refuge in a mansion outside Raccoon City and must explore it, solve puzzles and manage scarce supplies while working out what happened there.

Films and shorts

1 record

Collection unit Work, then regional releases and cuts. Features, shorts and documentaries.

  • ZS-0006FilmNeeds sources

    Resident Evil (2002 film)

    Paul W. S. Anderson, Milla Jovovich · 2002

    A security operative and a military team enter an underground research facility after its systems seal it off, and find out what has happened to its staff.

Comics, manga and webcomics

1 record

Collection unit Series, then issues or chapters, then collected editions.

  • ZS-0003ComicUnder review

    The Walking Dead (comic series)

    Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore, Charlie Adlard · 2003 to 2019 also: TWD

    A long-running black-and-white series following a small-town police officer and a changing group of survivors as they look for safety and try to rebuild a community after the dead rise.

Folklore, criticism and exhibitions

1 record

Collection unit Kept as separate collection categories. Folklore and cultural history are reviewed with qualified sources, including Haitian perspectives.

  • ZS-0008ScholarshipUnder review

    Zombis (exhibition, musée du quai Branly)

    musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac · 8 October 2024 to 16 February 2025

    A museum exhibition on the zombi in Haiti and the figure's later life in popular culture. Listed as a starting point for cultural context and further research.

Additional formats

0 records

Collection unit Tabletop and roleplaying games, podcasts and audio drama, stage, music and visual art, fan works.

Nothing catalogued here yet. This shelf is an open gap: suggest a title.