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Pocket Books, June 2010
eBook, 320 pages
ISBN-10: 1439177953
ISBN-13: 9781439177952
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LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, IT'S TIME TO REALLY MEET THE BEATLES.
For John Lennon, a young, idealistic zombie guitarist with dreams of global domination, Liverpool seems the ideal place to form a band that could take over the world. In an inspired act, Lennon kills and reanimates local rocker Paul McCartney, kicking off an unstoppable partnership. With the addition of newly zombified guitarist George Harrison and drummer/Seventh Level Ninja Lord Ringo Starr, the Beatles soon cut a swath of bloody good music and bloody violent mayhem across Europe, America, and the entire planet.
In this searing oral history, discover how the Fab Four climbed to the Toppermost of the Poppermost while stealing the hearts, ears, and brains of smitten teenage girls. Learn the tale behind a spiritual journey that resulted in the dismemberment of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Marvel at the seemingly indestructible quartet’s survival of a fierce attack by Eighth Level Ninja Lord Yoko Ono. And find out how the boys escaped eternal death at the hands of England’s greatest zombie hunter, Mick Jagger.
Through all this, one mystery remains: Can the Beatles sublimate their hunger for gray matter, remain on top of the charts, and stay together for all eternity? After all, three of the Fab Four are zombies, and zombies live forever. . . .
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How did you come to write this book?
The whole postmodern zombie craze -- which, to me, started with "Shaun of the Dead" and reached critical mass with "Pride & Prejudice & Zombies" -- seemed like a hoot, and I wanted in. I didn't know jack about Victorian literature, but I knew a a thing or three about the Beatles. And even though there will be cries of bandwagon jumping, the genesis of the book was fairly organic: I've always loved horror (Stephen King was one of the first "grown-up" writers I ever read), and I'm a Beatles nerd. It was a match made in heaven...or maybe in hell. Bwah hah hah hah hah hah!!!
“A POST-MODERN GOTHIC CLASSIC.”
-- Mick Wall, author of When Giants Walked the Earth: A Biography of Led Zeppelin
“HILARIOUS.”
-- Michael Ian Black, comedian and author of Clappy as a Ham
“BRILLIANT AND HILARIOUS. TWO DECAYING THUMBS UP.” --Jonathan Maberry, multiple Bram Stoker Award
-- winning author of Patient Zero and Rot & Ruin
"PAUL IS UNDEAD MAY BE THE MOST LIVELY BEATLES BOOK TO COME DOWN THE LONG & WINDING ROAD IN YEARS. IT'S BLOODY BRILLIANT!"
-- Charles F. Rosenay, Examiner.com
“PAUL IS UNDEAD IS THE ABBEY ROAD OF BEATLES ZOMBIE MASHUP NOVELS.”
-- A.J. Jacobs, author of The Guinea Pig Diaries and The Year of Living Biblically
"...this clever take on the subgenre will bring music nerds into its fandom."
-- Booklist
"Goldsher turns in a classic rags-to-riches tale of aspiration and success that would do Horatio Alger proud, punctuated by no end of gore."
-- Kirkus Reviews
From Publisher's Weekly
Starred Review. Are readers ready for a world in which the Beatles just wanna eat your brains? Goldsher (Hard Bop Academy) thinks so, and he may be right. In this humor-filled splatterfest, the rise and fall of the zombie Beatles unfolds through eyewitness accounts, newspaper clippings, and interviews. Violence and music go hand-in-hand as the zombiefied Lennon, Harrison, and McCartney fight, eat, and rock their way to fame and popularity while ninja lord Ringo Starr tries to keep them out of trouble. Nothing can stop them
Starred Review. Are readers ready for a world in which the Beatles just wanna eat your brains? Goldsher (Hard Bop Academy) thinks so, and he may be right. In this humor-filled splatterfest, the rise and fall of the zombie Beatles unfolds through eyewitness accounts, newspaper clippings, and interviews. Violence and music go hand-in-hand as the zombiefied Lennon, Harrison, and McCartney fight, eat, and rock their way to fame and popularity while ninja lord Ringo Starr tries to keep them out of trouble. Nothing can stop them
-- not even a vampiric Pete Best, zombie-killing Mick Jagger, rival ninja Yoko Ono, or bad reviews. In fact, their only enemies may be one another, as personal conflicts threaten to break them up for good. Roughly paralleling the real-world career of the Beatles, this alternate history reimagines successes, failures, and rivalries with over-the-top bizarro charm. (July)
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Examiner.com, May 25, 2010
...bookstores this month in the form of a ridiculously entertaining tale about a team of undead football players. Paul is Undead by Alan Goldsher: The British zombie invasion is coming to bookstores this June with this book that asks the ...
MTV, May 24, 2010
...You might remember the exciting news from a few weeks ago that Alan Goldsher's upcoming novel "Paul Is Undead: The British Zombie Invasion" -- a clever mock-oral history of the zombie Beatles -- had been optioned for a feature film ...
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