I mean, with all the bacteria still active in the digestive system of the dead human, gas is going to build up. Would it eke out its bum or percolate through other holes in the body as it walked around? Also, with the rate of decay... a new zombie is pretty active, while one a week and a half old is probably dropping body parts left and right. Asking for a friend.

My book ‘Eat Your Heart Out” is a zombie apocalypse set in the 1980’s in an abandoned arcade. It currently only has one chapter, but it will have 10-15 chapters when it’s complete. Lmk if interested and I’ll send the link. It’s currently free to read on Wattpad!

Or do you guys, have any other suggestions for the worst places to be in a zombie apocalypse?

All the shows/movies that depict a zombie apocalypse where the zombies are slow walkers are unrealistic just because Humanity can EASILY deal with that. Slow walking zombies would never be able to take over everything.

World War Z, Train to Busan, etc where the zombies are sprinting, turning human to z in a short time, etc have good potential for a zombie apocalypse to occur... However, even with sprinters, I believe the human race would be strong enough to bunker down and defend themselves from positions where they can't be bitten and eventually clear the last zombie.

The only way a zombie apocalypse would happen is if anyone who died turned Zombie AND anyone bitten turned Zombie AND the zombies were sprinters. This is how they are in Black Summer.

I'm looking for a pc survival zombie game, maybe some realistism but definitely not too story based or scripted, I don't mind an immune character but would prefer not. If anyone has played zombiu maybe a character system like that, one bite and your done, get a new character

TL;DR: Supernatural Curse, Deadly Virus, both?

So I'm writing a story for a game but there's one point that I haven't been able to chalk down to certainty and I need feedback.

I would post this on r/writing, but I figure a zombie oriented subreddit would give me better answers.

I've thought of the realistic and grounded approach of a pathogen and it's been more of a technical approach so far. Trying to make the pieces fit.

Virus is the classic, but how can a virus successfully reanimate a dead person? What makes a zombie virus unique from your average flu? Is the virus plot too overused?

I know parasites won't do the trick because they prefer living hosts, but it could be a way to vary from the usual use of the virus in zombie plots.

Prions are interesting, been looking into that.

Bacteria, maybe? Antibiotic-resistant bacteria sounds terrifying, but I don't feel like a bacteria would fit as a "zombie-maker". Feel free to correct me, though.

Fungi, I don't know, TLoU went deep into that and I'm not sure it's what I'm going for, but it is a possibility.

Mycobacterium is also interesting, Resident Evil 7 and 8 went into that approach recently if I'm not mistaken.

Now... A curse on the other hand, it's supernatural so the whole "realism" thing definitely goes down the drain, but it makes it spookier.

Lot of room for creativity too.

"Pure curse" would mean sending the scientific side away and it would be just fiction all together, you could go deep into "black magic" or "hellish curse" or "god's punishment" and what not.

(Personal take: The zombie outbreak being a punishment from a god sounds terrifying to me.)

Then there's the point in between, a cursed pathogen, a mix of both. The "realism" could somewhat stick around, mixed in with the fiction.

But this is where the question comes in.

What's better? What would you like to see in a zombie story?

Does the feel of "wow, this could actually happen in real life" beat the feel of "damn, that's creepy", vice versa?

Does stuff that's too fictional throw you off? Does realism bore you? Is mixing a bit of both a bad idea?

Let me know your thoughts, I'd really appreciate your input.

So I was talking to my sister about zombies and we ended up with the question stated above and was wondering what exactly attracts zombies like I know noise does but like if I was to like hide in a pile of trash of if I drenched myself in cologne would the zombies not attack me or would they? If you have any idea please lmk

I don't know why it popped in my mind but all I can remember is the opening scene is a woman running through a long hallway being chased by what I remember to be a zombie and she runs outside locking the zombie inside (if I remember correctly it was a vault/bunker type door)

What I remember about the movie is the woman was a scientist or a doctor and her and a team of military guys go back in the bunker/vault to retrieve something and at the end of the movie it is revealed that she is the "bad guy" the one who caused the "outbreak"

For the past few months, I've been thinking about a zombie game I used to play in the public library back in middle school. I forgot the name but I remember it's sort of a wave defense type of zombie game.

The main stand out is you can summon a priest, an airplane the bombs the level, a truck that runs them all over (and blood splatters in the back like a lawnmower), and I remember typing "Zombieland game" but I can't find it anymore. I'm gonna say the game is from 2008-2015 if that helps

That's the best I could recall. If someone can help me, I'd be the happiest guy in the world!

I finished The Walking Dead a while ago and since then I've been looking for something similar, I want something that's similar, but it's hard to find, all the zombie stories are always about finding a cure and everything, I wanted something more like The Walking Dead, humans surviving and fuck it. The only thing I found, apart from Fear the Walking Dead, was Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead. I'm looking for any media, from series to books and podcasts

a topic i think about alot is climate change in antarctica ect, ice melting = diseases we dont know about coming out and wiping us all out?!? the ice is melting quick too? ughh idk this shit freaks me out. imagine a zombie like disease!

I'm listening to the audiobook of The Stand. I'm not even halway through but i'm really loving it. Im a big fan of all zombie films and though this isn't (at least not yet) a 'zombie' story, it really scratches the itch which i get for zombie stories!!!

I feel like we all love, 'end of the world' vibes !

Its so god damn good!!

So the start of the book the main character is stuck scrolling on an offline mode of a social media, believing the rest of the world is alive, some years later him and his faction of maybe 15 people repair a cell tower with working generators and parts, they recover a few phones, refill their batteries until they find one that works, only for the mc to go on the same social media and see that the last post was from a few years ago, meaning, most people died. The story would take place in between these two moments

I've seen on this sub and on reddit in general that people find gas powered vehicles useless during zombie outbreak because there is a common misbelief that gas goes bad after 3 months or so.. Just wanted to tell you that it's total bullshit and well gas starts to lose some of its properties after 3 months but it's not useless till like 10 years. Just for example I was cleaning my garage last week and found a canister full of gas that was over 8 years old, and guess what, it powered my motorbike without major issues. had some problem starting and was not running so smoothly but it was totally rideable and I estimate it has lost about 30% of its power

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Hello everyone in r/zombies, if any of you have the time and have an account with Kindle Vella, I'd greatly appreciate it if you'd check out my original series, "The Aegis Division". It's my first ever, semi-professionally published work, and it has been a passion project of mine for a while now. The long and short of it is that it's a story about a Marine named Jacob Wager getting recruited out of the military into a secret division of Homeland Security called Aegis that's dedicated to defending the United States from terrorist attacks with biological weapons, wherein he and other soldiers and operators are tasked with dealing with the outbreak of a new biological weapon that causes those that kills its host and reanimates them to act as a hostile vector after death. It's my hope that, if I see some modicum of success with this series, that I'll eventually be able to reformat this series into something of a longer format, whether it be a series of novellas or possibly even novels, in addition to a larger-scale project that would build off of this series. If you read it and like it, I'd greatly appreciate any engagement and interaction that you could leave, as every little bit helps. "The Aegis Division" isn't just a story about zombies, or even about the people fighting the zombies in this series. The Aegis Division is a story of humanity, compassion, and so much more in the face of adversity. This series is also perfect for fans of Jonathan Maberry's Joe Ledger series, as well as Jack Carr's "Terminal List", Brian Andrews and Jeffrey Wilson's "Tier One", and nearly anything written by Franklin Horton or Chris Philbrook. I'd greatly appreciate any time taken to read the series and engage with it, and if you like it, please recommend it to a friend. As I said, it's my eventual plan to adapt the series into a different format, but that will be determined by the initial success of this series.

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I greatly appreciate any and all who take the time to read and engage with this series. Someday, I hope to repay the investment and time made into this with more quality that will be available on all platforms. Thank you.

Say that a human woman fcks a zombie man, could she get pregnant? Or vica versa (human man with zombie woman)? Would the child be human, zombie or half-zombie?