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Zombie Book Club
Zombie Book Club
123 episodes
17 hours ago
In this episode we sit down with Sarah Lyons Fleming, the brilliant mind behind the Until the End of the World series (as well as her other series; City and Cascadia), which feels more like a well‑stocked pantry than a barren wasteland. She enthralls us with the gritty logistics of life after the collapse, cozy survival, acorn flour, and how community‑first storytelling can outshine lone‑wolf power fantasies. Beyond the gore, Sarah shares how she weaves LGBTQIA+, women‑centered, and neurodive...
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In this episode we sit down with Sarah Lyons Fleming, the brilliant mind behind the Until the End of the World series (as well as her other series; City and Cascadia), which feels more like a well‑stocked pantry than a barren wasteland. She enthralls us with the gritty logistics of life after the collapse, cozy survival, acorn flour, and how community‑first storytelling can outshine lone‑wolf power fantasies. Beyond the gore, Sarah shares how she weaves LGBTQIA+, women‑centered, and neurodive...
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Arts,
TV & Film,
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Zombie Book Club
Sarah Lyons Fleming - Until the End of the World | Zombie Book Club Ep 121
In this episode we sit down with Sarah Lyons Fleming, the brilliant mind behind the Until the End of the World series (as well as her other series; City and Cascadia), which feels more like a well‑stocked pantry than a barren wasteland. She enthralls us with the gritty logistics of life after the collapse, cozy survival, acorn flour, and how community‑first storytelling can outshine lone‑wolf power fantasies. Beyond the gore, Sarah shares how she weaves LGBTQIA+, women‑centered, and neurodive...
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17 hours ago
1 hour 32 minutes

Zombie Book Club
ZombieWeen Gameshow 2025 | Zombie Book Club Ep 120
The undead gather for the inaugural ZombieWeen 2025 showdown, where the court of the apocalypse crowns a new monarch of the undead. Leah and Dan usher listeners into a night of witty banter, improvised challenges, and razor‑sharp satire—all framed by a Jeopardy‑style board that pits “Zombie Survival 101,” “Horror Tropes,” “Apocalypse Etiquette,” “Zombie Blockbusters,” and “Dating While Undead” against one another. Contestants—including returning royalty Laurie, the reigning king Sylvester, an...
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1 week ago
1 hour 40 minutes

Zombie Book Club
Resident Evil (2002) - Corporations are the real monsters | Zombie Book Club Ep 119
We crack open Resident Evil (2002) to expose Umbrella Corp’s playbook: a secret underground lab, an AI “Red Queen” that chooses lethal containment over humanity, and a virus that turns a research facility into an underground tomb. By mapping the film’s thrills onto today’s corporate landscape, we explore how shareholder‑driven incentives, corporate personhood, and profit‑first logic can become a real‑world horror story—​a corporate psychopath that “kills” for efficiency. From the legal roots ...
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2 weeks ago
1 hour 32 minutes

Zombie Book Club
See you on the other side, Nero (Minisode Update) | Zombie Book Club Ep 118
The plan for this episode was simple: fire zombies, protest frogs, and a life update. What we got was a quiet living room, two handheld mics, and the kind of day that makes everything else feel small. Our old boy Nero, a once-feral, endlessly loving dog who shaped our routines and taught us patience, took a sharp turn. We walked into the ER carrying an 80lb dog like a duffle bag and left with a simple truth: sometimes love is mercy, and mercy means letting go. If this resonates, tell us abou...
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3 weeks ago
22 minutes

Zombie Book Club
Warm Bodies (THE MOVIE) with special guest Wicked Words Book Club | Zombie Book Club Ep 117
Can a film adaptation ever capture the quiet ache of its source? In this crossover with Wicked Words Book Club, we dissect Isaac Marion’s Warm Bodies and its sleek, sanitized movie version, tracing the emotional, ideological, and tonal shifts that split page and screen. We celebrate the bits that land, like visual metaphors of zombified liminality and clever sight gags, and lament the simplifications that undercut weight: interchangeable bonies, narrative shortcuts, and a romance that skips i...
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4 weeks ago
1 hour 39 minutes

Zombie Book Club
Aquarium of the Dead with Special Guest Jacob Quijas | Zombie Book Club Ep 116
Join us for a smart, irreverent dive into Aquarium of the Dead with marine biologist and festival fanatic Jacob Quijas. We map undead tropes onto real marine science—waves, buoyancy, detritivores, keystone species—and even speculate: can the ocean digest zombies faster than we expect and would their bones become coral? Then we dive in to the movie: shark mix-ups, roaring octopi, and what Aquarium of the Dead gets hilariously wrong about marine life and systems. Along the way, Jacob’s wisdom a...
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1 month ago
1 hour 18 minutes

Zombie Book Club
Warm Bodies (The Book) with special guest Wicked Words Book Club Podcast | Zombie Book Club Ep 115
When a zombie named 'R' rescues a living girl instead of devouring her, everything shifts. Told through R’s reflective, darkly witty inner monologue, Warm Bodies challenges our assumptions of life, death, and what it means to feel. As R consumes Perry’s brain and begins to access memories, he forges a strange intimacy with Perry’s consciousness—raising the question: whose identity is really influencing R’s journey? In this crossover episode, we join Sara and Greg from Wicked Words Bookclub Po...
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1 month ago
2 hours 15 minutes

Zombie Book Club
This Has Nothing To Do With Zombies (and we almost didn't upload it) | Zombie Book Club Ep 114
This episode digs into how the Trump Administration has rolled back decades of clean energy progress—through sweeping executive orders, budget cuts, and cancelled programs—and how those moves are hitting communities of color, the poor, and Indigenous Nations the hardest. Leah shares her own loss of work in environmental justice, and we break down what that means in real terms: higher energy bills, fewer clean-energy jobs, loss of protections, and more pollution in the places that already bear...
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1 month ago
58 minutes

Zombie Book Club
'Returned': A Medieval Zombie Graphic Novel with Jason Strutz | Zombie Book Club Ep 113
Jason Strutz joins us on Zombie Book Club Ep 113 to talk about Returned, his medieval horror graphic novel where the undead aren’t just monsters — they’re souls trapped in bodies that have turned violent, forced to watch as loved ones try to bring them back. When warrior Vale dies and becomes one such undead, her partner Hal and their son Ragno must navigate the horror, the betrayal, and the slim chance of redemption. We dive into how Jason’s own life — from caring for a parent with frontotem...
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1 month ago
1 hour 19 minutes

Zombie Book Club
'The Collapse' with special guest Alice B. Sullivan | Zombie Book Club Ep 112
In this episode, we bring you face-to-face with acclaimed author Alice B. Sullivan, as we crack open The Collapse: Book 0 in her Aftermath series. Alice takes us behind the scenes of how a character backstory written in just three whirlwind weeks during the pandemic became a full-blown prequel, introducing young Sadie and her fearless Yorkshire Terrier, Trooper. Prepare to reframe your assumptions about apocalypse pets—Alice argues small dogs are more than liabilities, they’re surprising surv...
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2 months ago
1 hour 30 minutes

Zombie Book Club
'The Dead Weight: Resistance' with special guest Jo Salazar | Zombie Book Club Ep 111
Join us as we dive into “The Dead‑Weight Resistance” with returning guest Jo Salazar, author of The Dead Weight and its thrilling sequel. We explore Quinn’s journey in post-apocalyptic St. Louis—her fight for healthcare, her emotional trauma, and the chance to redefine herself when no one knows her past. Jo shares how stepping away from social work into full-time writing has changed her life, and what drew her to themes of identity and moral complexity in the zombie genre. This episode is pac...
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2 months ago
1 hour 18 minutes

Zombie Book Club
SummerWeen Slamdown with special guest Brandon Starocci and Laurie Calcaterra and a surprise guest Judge | Zombie Book Club Ep 110
The tension was palpable as we welcomed comic creators Laurie Calcaterra and Brandon Starocci to the Summerween Slamdown - a bare-knuckle brawl between frenemies that would determine the fate of Laurie's zombie crown and Brandon's prized mustache. What began as online beef culminated in this explosive showdown, judged by none other than 2024 Zombie-ween king and horror author Sylvester Barzey. Contact & Social Links for Guests & Related Authors Elevator Pitch R. Cuthbertson: @rcut...
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2 months ago
1 hour 17 minutes

Zombie Book Club
Wheelchair Seating for the Apocalypse with special guest KQ Watson | Zombie Book Club Ep 109
In this provocative and poignant episode, we sit down with author KQ Watson to explore her short story Wheelchair Seating for the Apocalypse. Far from your average survival tale, this narrative focuses on a wheelchair user who chooses to opt out of enduring a zombie-infested world—prompting a powerful and compassionate exploration of autonomy, dignity, and the underrepresented voices in apocalyptic fiction. We dive into the ethics of medical aid in dying, ableist tropes in horror, and what it...
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2 months ago
1 hour 20 minutes

Zombie Book Club
Hot Zombie Nerds in Your Area! | Zombie Book Club Ep 108
In this special “get to know us” episode, Dan and Leah pull back the curtain on the Zombie Book Club. From meeting on ICQ in the internet’s dark ages to building a zombie-obsessed home in Vermont, they share their origin story, their love for all things undead, and why they use the apocalypse as a lens to talk about capitalism, climate collapse, and representation. You’ll hear about Dan’s zombie novel-in-progress, Leah’s creepy-cool zombie crowns, and the barking dogs that would absolutely bl...
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3 months ago
1 hour 16 minutes

Zombie Book Club
Rod the Zombie with special guest Kathryn Breen | Zombie Book Club Ep 107
When Rod becomes the only sentient zombie in a world overrun with mindless undead, he adopts a squirrel sidekick (Grim), starts naming zombies, and invents a lifestyle fueled by mealworms. Things shift dramatically when he meets Bethany—a gritty survivor who doesn’t immediately try to destroy him. Together, they explore what it even means to be alive: grief, identity, free will, and the deep loneliness of being neither fully dead nor truly living. Join us this week as we chat with author Ka...
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3 months ago
1 hour 9 minutes

Zombie Book Club
Path of the Pale Rider’s Darkest Issue Yet with special guest Laurie Calcaterra | Zombie Book Club Ep 106
Death is broken—and in Path of the Pale Rider’s horrifying new issue #7, Laurie Calcaterra pushes the apocalypse boundary even further. From prophetic themes to theatrical horror, this is storytelling at its most disturbing and relevant. Join us for an immersive chat with Laurie—creator, visionary, and hot sauce witch—as she breaks down the creative grind behind Issue 7 and teases collectible surprises like Sad Pancake figurines, “Reaper’s Regret” hot sauce, and scratch‑and‑sniff covers. Whet...
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3 months ago
1 hour 32 minutes

Zombie Book Club
Apocalyptic Chopped Challenge | Zombie Book Club Ep 105
Brave the wasteland pantry with us as twelve zombie‑fiction creatives—competing under our B.I.T.E. rubric—turn shelf‑stable staples like peanut butter pretzels, Belgian beer, macaroni, donuts, and yes, human flesh into horrifyingly inventive three‑course feasts. From “cheese‑dusted long pork with peach hummus” to “scrotum balls in blood sauce,” this tongue‑in‑cheek culinary horror explores how desperation, and sheer imagination collide when civilization—and good taste—falls apart. Warning: yo...
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3 months ago
2 hours 7 minutes

Zombie Book Club
'We Don't Sacrifice Kids to Zombies' with special guest Courtney Konstantin | Zombie Book Club Ep 104
Courtney Konstantin, author of the Sundown series and Babysitter of the Apocalypse, joins Dan and Leah to unpack the human drama behind her zombie narratives. From flawed heroes and makeshift families to cult leaders exploiting the end of the world, Courtney shares how she builds rich characters and real-world villains that outshine the undead. Expect candid chatter about taking care of toddlers when the world’s ending, the unconventional charm of crowbars, and whether Vicky—an emotionally sc...
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3 months ago
1 hour 17 minutes

Zombie Book Club
America's Funeral... I mean 4th of July YAAAAAAAY! | Zombie Book Club Ep 103
In 2025, The Fourth of July hits different. In this episode, we host a funeral for America—mourning the death of democratic norms, health care access, and legal protections, while challenging the myths we’ve been fed about exceptionalism. With recent Supreme Court rulings dismantling nationwide injunctions, millions losing healthcare, and fundamental freedoms under attack, we confront the uncomfortable fact that the America we were promised may never have existed—and that the one we have migh...
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4 months ago
1 hour 19 minutes

Zombie Book Club
(NO SPOILERS) Is Zoombies 2 Better than 28 Years Later? | Zombie Book Club Ep 102
In this spoiler‑free showdown, we pit the animals‑gone‑zombie campiness of Zoombies 2 against the thought‑provoking, visually audacious 28 Years Later. We break down ten key categories—cinematography, effects, innovation, cultural impact—and ask the really tough questions... From heartfelt shout‑outs to our ZomBesties, Ollie and Megan, to surprising production notes—like “big swinging dicks”—we keep it irreverent yet insightful. Think olive vs. grape: not what you expected, but worth sa...
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4 months ago
1 hour 19 minutes

Zombie Book Club
In this episode we sit down with Sarah Lyons Fleming, the brilliant mind behind the Until the End of the World series (as well as her other series; City and Cascadia), which feels more like a well‑stocked pantry than a barren wasteland. She enthralls us with the gritty logistics of life after the collapse, cozy survival, acorn flour, and how community‑first storytelling can outshine lone‑wolf power fantasies. Beyond the gore, Sarah shares how she weaves LGBTQIA+, women‑centered, and neurodive...