Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Zombies [Paperback]

Max Brooks (Foreword), Matt Mogk (Author)

Book Description

Release date: September 13, 2011

The most comprehensive zombie handbook ever published.  In one indispensable volume, Matt Mogk busts popular myths and answers all your raging questions about the living dead.  With foreword written by Max Brooks!

Editorial Reviews

Review

"If you're already a zombie fan, you'll be blown away by the time and energy sunk into this book. If you're not a zombie a fan, this book will make you one!" --Max Brooks, Author of Zombie Survival Guide and World War 

About the Author

Matt Mogk is the leading global authority on all things zombie.  As Founder and Head of the Zombie Research Society (ZRS) he has been directly involved in most major advances in zombie scholarship over the past decade.

Earning a Masters degree from New York University Film School where he specialized in horror in cinema, Matt was awarded a Sloan Foundation National Fellowship for science in screenwriting.  He then received advanced combat and survival training in the French Foreign Legion, the mercenary wing of the French Military.

Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Gallery Books; Original edition (September 13, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1451641575
• ISBN-13: 978-1451641578
• Product Dimensions: 5.3 x 1 x 8.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #121,792 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Matt Mogk is the Founder and Head of the Zombie Research Society (ZRS), the premiere organization for the advancement of zombie knowledge and respect in the Arts and Sciences.

He earned a Masters degree from New York University Film School where he specialized in horror in cinema, before receiving advanced combat and survival training in the French Foreign Legion, the mercenary wing of the French Military.

Matt lives in Los Angeles, California with his wife and three mutt dogs that he's certain are trying to kill him.

Find out more about ZRS at: www.ZombieResearchSociety.com or email Matt directly at: [e-mail]

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 17 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars My husband and I can't put this book down! October 4, 2011

By D. Brenner

Format:Paperback

I bought this as a birthday gift for my husband and he has hardly put it down since he opened the package. He has always been interested in zombies and since this book was just published I figured he hadn't read it yet. He's totally into it and now has me reading it, too (when I can steal it from him)! First of all, this book has really does live up to it's title - it has EVERYTHING you would ever want to know about zombies. We are now armed with all available knowledge on zombie history, their biological make-up, and how to survive an attack which as parents we appreciate because we have two small children. Also, the author has studied zombie film history in depth and gives fascinating analyses of these films. Lastly, it is fun and interesting to read which is important to me in a non-fiction book. An easy five stars for this book and a must-read for all parents.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Incredibly Repetitive, BUT fun at times September 27, 2012

By Pinky

Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase

This book is certainly different. If you're a fan of zombie movies (or monster movies in general) you will probably get a kick out of this book. I am proudly one of those fans, but I found myself getting bored and skipping from paragraph to paragraph every now and then. It's as if the author's publisher trapped him within a set amount of pages to write. While fun at times, I found it to be incredibly repetitive.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars I never knew I WANTED to know this much... November 10, 2011

By K. Boyer

Format:Paperback

But now I'm so glad I picked this up. I ordered it because I came across the author's children's book several months ago "That's Not Your Mommy Anymore" which was hilarious. I bought a stack of that book for gifts and everyone is getting one in their xmas stocking this year. I was in San Diego a few months ago and at Comicon in San Diego a few months ago and attended a panel discussion with Mogk and Max Brooks (he wrote the forward in EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED TO YOU KNOW...) and was fascinated. This book is so well-written and entertaining. I haven't finished it yet, but am blowing through it now while I'm recovering from surgery. It's a decadent read.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Mogk is a true prophet in the (after)world of zombies. October 6, 2011

By Bobby B (TT)

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If the zombie craze is an allegory for the countdown to Armageddon, then Matt Mogk is our modern day Noah. Buy this book in pairs and start building your ark. The illustrations are impeccable. The structure is imminently readable. And the substance may save your life -- or better yet, allow you to keep living while dead!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars LIVE THROUGH THE ZOMBIE-POCALYPSE! September 28, 2011

By Lauren S.

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This book is essential reading if you want to be one of the lucky ones to survive when zombies take over the earth.

It's funny, factual, and contains helpful tips such as how to evaluate your own city's "Outbreak Survivability" and how to "stay positive" in a zombie survival situation. Matt Mogk is a historian, a humanitarian and a we owe him a debt of gratitude for this amazing work!

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Nerd Erection January 5, 2012

By Josh Wilson

Format:Paperback

This book is a love letter to the zombie genre.

If you know nothing about zombies then Matt will get you up to speed and probably make a fanboy out of you.

If your already a fan of zombies, then look foward to a great read with plenty of interesting facts about survival, zombie movies, culture, games, and zombies in general. Plenty of quotes and citations also give this book a great sense of authenticity. Also, this is NOT a rip-off of "The Zombie Survival Guide" (another awesome book btw).

Now I understand that there have been a lot of zombie themed books out as of late since Max Brooks kicked off the zombie book craze, some of which are great while others were clearly just put forth to make money. "Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Zombies" thankfully does not fall into the latter category.

Matt Mogk definitely put a huge deal of love and effort into his book and is probably the biggest zombie fanboy I have ever seen, which is a good thing.

It's an easy read, plenty of facts for even the most jaded undead fan, and you will definitely be sad once the last page has been turned.

If your a zombie fan, you do a disservice to the genre by not reading this book.

Great buy, 110% satisfied.

8 of 11 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars A Must-Read!!! September 26, 2011

By Readsalot

Format:Paperback

Everything Zombies was a really fun and easy read - flew through it in a day and a half There is a lot of information in the book, but laid out in smaller sections so you really don't get bored. That layout will also help when needing to reference a fact (which you eventually will need to do). And the writing is generally pretty funny, which is a bonus. I'm pretty sure that I'm going to be the life of the party now that I'm armed with some of the info I learned reading this. And I KNOW I can now win the argument of whether Jesus is a zombie. In case you were wondering...JESUS IS NOT A ZOMBIE!!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Just ok January 5, 2013

By Bhakti Kelkar

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Book was just ok.I liked Max Brooks Zombie survival better.
It has more information than this one.
Ok for it's price.