Night Owl Reviews, one of the biggest names in book reviews, gave me a good opportunity for an interview.
http://nightowlreviewsmagazine.blogspot.com/2012/07/christopher-eger-what-makes-good-zombie.html
What makes a good Zombie?
Ever since Bela Lugosi, equipped with very questionable facial hair, mumbled a few lines about enslaved undead in the 1932 classic film, “White Zombie,” the world has asked themselves just what is a zombie. Tradition has that this most undefined of the monster genre is a former human who has, through some weird metamorphosis, become something very different. So let’s take the zombie test to see what separates these from the rest of the movie monsters.
Test Number 1: The Shamble.
You simply can’t have a good zombie without a good shamble. These lurking, jerking movements, often similar to a 4AM drunk stroll, are the bread and butter of the living dead. Even those movies and books that feature zombies who sprint like an Olympic superstar (aka ‘The Running Dead’) eventually let them slow down to…the Shamble. Let’s face it; have you ever seen a werewolf or vampire get their shamble on? Didn’t think so.
Read the rest of what makes a good zombie from yours truly over at Night Owl! http://nightowlreviewsmagazine.blogspot.com/2012/07/christopher-eger-what-makes-good-zombie.html
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About laststandonzombieisland
Let me introduce myself. I am a bit of a conflict junkie. I am fascinated by war and warfare, assassination, personal protection and weaponry ranging from spud guns and flame throwers to thermonuclear bombs and soviet-trained Ebola monkeys. In short, if it’s violent or a tool to create violence it is kind of my thing.
I have written a few hundred articles on the dry encyclopedia side for such websites as History Times, Firearms Talk.com, GUNS.com, Suite 101 (where I am the contracted Feature Writer for Military History) and Combat Forums; as well as for print publications like England Expects, and Strike First Strike Fast. Several magazines such as Sea Classics, Military Historian and Collector, Mississippi Sportsman and Warship International have carried my pieces. Additionally I am on staff as a naval consultant and writer for Eye Spy Intelligence Magazine.
Currently I am working on several book projects, including a section in the upcoming Mississippi Encyclopedia (to be published by Ole Miss this summer), an alternative history novel about the US-German War of 1916, and a biography of Bennett Doty. My first novel, about the coming zombie apocalypse was released this Spring by Necro Publications and can be found at Amazon.com.
In my day job I am a contractor for the US federal government in what could best be described as the ‘Force Protection’ field. In this I am a certified Firearms, and less-than-lethal combat instructor.
