Books from the Netherworld

GURPS Undead contains a fantastic bibliography. I have assembled it here, with links to Amazon.Com if you want to purchase them. I am an Amazon.Com affiliate, but primarily I am hoping to make it easy for people to find the books and movies.

It is important to note that just because a book or film is here it does not mean I like it! Personally, I dislike Anne Rice (a lot), but if it was in GURPS Undead it is here.

I have also added some other books I have read that have good treatments of the undead. I have marked these with an asterisk. Note: some of these books may be out of print. Email me with suggestions, if you like.

GENERAL REFERENCES

Cassiel. Encyclopedia of Black Magic

Guily, Rosemary Ellen. Harper's Encyclopedia of Mystical & Paranormal Experience

Page, Michael and Ingpen, Robert. Encyclopedia of Things That Never Were

FICTION

Anthony, Piers. Crewel Lye

*Brust, Steven. Agyar - more vampires.

Cook, Glen. Shadows Linger

*Cook, Glen. Sweet Silver Blues - a P.I. with a dead partner that just won't shuffle off the mortal coil, plus a nest of vampires!

*Cook, Glen. Cold Copper Tears - another Garrett P.I. book. The Dead Man is not the only Loghyr who won't give up just because he is dead...

*Cook, Glen. Swordbearer - includes undead spirits that posess bodies and flee them when cornered to avoid real death.

Costikyan, Greg. Another Day, Another Dungeon

de Lint, Charles. Mulengro

Dozois, Gardner and Williams, Sheila (editors). Isaac Asimov's Ghosts

Dozois, Gardnes and Williams, Sheila (editors). Isaac Asimov's Vampires

Hamilton, Laurell K. Guilty Pleasures

Herbert, James. The Ghosts of Sleath

King, Stephen. Pet Semetary-I read this book because The Ramones are mentioned. Really.

Lackey, Mercedes. Children of the Night

Lee, Tanith. Kill the Dead

Lovecraft, H.P. Dagon and Other Macabre Tales-(specifically the story "Herbert West-Reanimator")

Matheson, Richard. I Am Legend

McDonald, Ian. Terminal Cafe

Newman, Kim. Anno Dracula

Powers, Tim. On Stranger Tides

Pratchett, Terry. Reaper Man-I cannot recommend this enough. Does DEATH remind anyone else of Mr. Neutron?

Preiss, Byron and Betancourt, John (editors). The Ultimate Zombie

Rice, Anne. Interview with the Vampire

Shepard, Lucius. Green Eyes

Stableford, Brian. The Empire of Fear

Steakley, John. Vampire$

Stoker, Bram. Dracula

*Virgil. The Aenid-Although a classmate in my Rome Under Augustus class though Aeneas was a whiner, I liked it.

Wharton, Edith. The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton

Yoshimoto, Banana. Amrita

It is worth noting that the entire Garret P.I. series features The Dead Man, and I highly recommend all of the books. The two I mentioned do have the dead feature quite prominently.

NONFICTION

Davis, Wade The Serpent and the Rainbow

Jung, C.G. Psychology and the Occult

MOVIES

Ghosts

Beetlejuice (Tim Burton, 1988)

Frighteners, The (Peter Jackson, 1996)

Ghostbusters (Ivan Reitman, 1984) - notably contains the standard PC plan of action-"Get Her!"

Gotham (Lloyd Fonvielle, 1988)-Sorry, could not find the movie!

Strange Brew (Dave Thomas, Rick Moranis, 1983) - Ghosts, hockey, mind control, beer, and shock treatment. Okay, not really about the Undead, but it does have a ghost!

Mummies

Mummy, The (Terence Fisher, 1959)

Mummy, The (Karl Freund, 1932)

Revenants

Crow, The (Alex Proyas, 1993)

High Plains Drifter (Clint Eastwood, 1973) - Mentioned in the playest along with Pale Rider. Inspiration for "Unaware Dead."

Night Breed (Clive Barker, 1990)

Pale Rider (Clint Eastwood, 1985)

Vampires

Addiction, The (Abel Ferrara, 1995)

Bram Stoker's Dracula (Francis Ford Coppola, 1992)

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Fran Rubel Kazui, 1992)

Cronos (Guillermo del Toro, 1994)

Fearless Vampire Killers, The (Roman Polanski, 1967)

From Dusk Till Dawn (Robert Rodriguez, 1995)

Hunger, The (Tony Scott, 1983)

Innocent Blood (John Landis, 1992)

Lost Boys, The (Joel Schumacher, 1987)

Nadja (Michael Almereyda, 1995)

Near Dark (Kathyrn Bigelow, 1987)

Omega Man (Boris Segal, 1971) - Charlton Heston's dream - a man, a stockpile of guns, and a mission. :)

Zombies

Army of Darkness (Sam Raimi, 1992)

Cast a Deadly Spell (Martin Campbell, 1991)

Cemetary Man (Michele Soavi, 1995)

Dead Alive (Peter Jackson, 1993),

Night of the Living Dead (George A. Romero, 1968)

Plague of the Zombies (John Gilling, 1966)

Plan 9 from Outer Space (Edward D. Wood Jr., 1956)

Return of the Living Dead(Dan O'Bannon, 1985)

White Zombie, The (Victor Halperin, 1932)

TELEVISION

Entirely too much bad TV to mention, but any Simpsons Holloween episodes should help.

"Dad, you killed the zombie Flanders!"
"He was a zombie?"

South Park. The Holloween Episode-includes little-known zombification methods, topical ointments, and botched Diagnosis rolls. Oh, and Kenny dies.


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