HORROR FOR HALLOWEEN

Cell by Stephen King
Are cell phones responsible for creating a race of flesh-eating zombies—former regular folks who are now rampaging across New England? Those spared, mostly small children, the elderly, and middle-aged Luddites who eschewed cell phones, take up arms and attempt to defend themselves against the senseless destruction.
Graphic artist Clay Riddell is in Boston when the madness begins. On his way back to Maine to check on the safety of his son, he joins forces with other refugees along the way. King demonstrates how an everyday object—the cell phone—can turn us all into zombies.

World War Z by Max Brooks
In first person accounts, various folks tell of their survival of the Zombie War, which pitted humans against a 200 million strong army of zombies. A send-up of political and military policies, which asks “How can you kill the undead?”

Dead lines by Greg Bear
Failed screenwriter picks up a shoot promoting the “Trans”—a new super cell phone, which can also communicate with the dead. Even the dead can hear him now, and they are really annoyed.

Shark trouble by Peter Benchley
“Jaws” author Benchley debunks many myths about sharks, but includes enough hair raising encounters with various marine animals to make it scary enough.

Alive! By Piers Paul Read
A plane carrying a rugby team crashed in the Andes; it was ten weeks before the men were rescued. With little food aboard, they turned to cannibalism.

Laughing corpse by Laurell K. Hamilton
Anita Blake is asked to raise a 300 year old zombie. Because it would require a human sacrifice, she refuses, but when bodies keep turning up, she realizes that someone else took the job.

Monster island : a zombie novel by David Wellington
When a plague hits Manhattan, its citizens are turned into rotting, walking corpses. The fate of the city depends on an army of teenage girls and a former U.N. weapons inspector.

Hot zone: a terrifying true story by Richard Preston
It reads like a bioterrorist thriller, but this is a true story of how a strain of a deadly ebola virus came to the U.S. We are only an airplane ride away from a pandemic.

Serpent and the rainbow: a Harvard scientist’s astonishing journey into the secret societies of Haitian voodoo, zombies, and magic by Wade Davis
An ethnobotanist arrives in Haiti to research two documented cases of zombies and is drawn into the vodoun culture.