(pb; 1979, republished 2020**)
From the back cover
“The world is being devastated by zombies. No one knows how far they have spread, or how to stop them. And as the living fight to save themselves, society collapses.
“Four people escape the chaos of downtown Philadelphia and find shelter in a shopping mall. But as the survivors exhaust their greed and the undead scrape at the doors, the refuge becomes a prison.
“And soon there will be nowhere
left to hide.”
Review
Romero and Sparrow’s movie tie-in novelization of Romero’s 1978 landmark undead film is intense, immediately immersive, splatterific (at points), action-punctuated and character expansive (when compared to the film), a worthwhile companion work to the film. There isn’t a lot that’s different from its cinematic source-work (that I remember), but it’s a fun, fast and slickly written (and slightly icky) read, one worth seeking out.
[**republished/included in Second Sight’s 2020 seven-disc Blu-Ray Dawn
of the Dead set]
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