Prior to his passing, the legendary George A. Romero had been working on a brand new zombie novel aptly titled The Living Dead, which was set to be the first print entry into his long-running film saga. Recently completed by Daniel Kraus, the 656-page zombie epic will be published on August 4th, and we've now learned that an audiobook version is on the way.
Even cooler, the audiobook version of The Living Dead will be narrated by actors Lori Cardille, who played Dr. Sarah Bowman in Romero’s Day of The Dead, and Bruce Davison (The Lords of Salem, Willard)!
Of getting to narrate The Living Dead, Cardille says, "As one of George Romero's leading ladies in his Living Dead trilogy, I am thrilled and honored to give my voice to this book. And given our preoccupation with deadly viruses these days, I wouldn't be surprised to see George come back from the grave and lead a parade of zombies down Fifth Avenue. The Living Dead is George at his best. He would be so happy to know that Daniel Kraus was able to complete his vision."
Davison says of the audiobook, "The frightening metaphor couldn't be more timely and fear will burrow its way into your waking dreams. Shelter in place...they're here.”
Set in the present day, The Living Dead is an entirely new tale, the story of the zombie plague as George A. Romero wanted to tell it. Fans will be able to hear The Living Dead come alive with the work of these two talented voice actors.
In The Living Dead, "On October 24th, John Doe rises from the dead. Assistant Medical Examiner Luis Acocella and his assistant Charlene Rutkowksi are vivisecting him when it happens, and so begins a global nightmare beyond comprehension.
Greer Morgan is a teenager living in a trailer park, and when the dead begin their assault, the true natures of her neighbors are revealed. Chuck Chaplin is a pretty-boy cable-news anchor, and the plague brings sudden purpose to his empty life.
Karl Nishimura is the helmsman of the U.S.S. Vindicator, a nuclear submarine, and he battles against a complete zombie takeover of his city upon the sea. And meanwhile, a mysterious woman named Etta Hoffmann records the progress of the epidemic from a bunker in D.C., as well as the broken dreams and stubborn hopes of a nation not ready to give up.
Spread across three separate time periods and combining Romero’s biting social commentary with Kraus’s gift for the beautiful and grotesque, the book rockets forward as the zombie plague explodes, endures, and finally, in a shocking final act, begins to radically change."
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