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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aeric" data-source="post: 2351753" data-attributes="member: 17012">I recently read a two-book series by Brian Keene--The Rising and City of the Dead--which takes the typical zombie apocalypse scenario and turns it on its ear.  Normally in such stories, the cause of zombies is a man-made virus, or radiation brought back by a deep space probe, etc.  In these books, the zombies are dead bodies possessed by ancient demons imprisoned by God millennia ago, who were freed when scientists accidentally destroyed the barrier between our world and The Void (hell).  So you have these zombies who are still slow-moving and falling apart at the seams, but they can talk, and think, and use their host's memories to their advantage (for skills such as driving, firing guns, etc.).  Even animals are possessed, so you have these intelligent zombie animals working together and with the human zombies to kill the living.</blockquote>