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UK Festival of Zombie Culture

This is a quick post to publicly thank ZOMBIE ED and everyone involved in the UK FESTIVAL OF ZOMBIE CULTURE last Saturday. As always it was an excellent event: a gracious host (Ed), the usual suspects (myself, WAYNE SIMMONS, ADAM MILLARD and SEAN T PAGE), loads of great traders (the Zombie Shop team) and staff, and about 500 rabid fans all crammed into the Phoenix arts centre in Leicester to watch a marathon thirteen hours of zombie movies (click here to see what you missed).

Since I started writing zombie books we’ve become overrun by the living dead. Back then there only seemed to be me, Brian Keene, David Wellington and a handful of others doing anything with zombies, but over the course of the last decade our undead friends have shuffled out from the fringes of horror to take up their current position right in the middle of the mainstream. In some respects that’s great, but I’ve been increasingly worried that zombie fatigue will soon start setting in. On the basis of what I saw in Leicester this weekend, we’ve got absolutely nothing to worry about.

A picture tells a thousand words they say, so I’ll save myself some typing and let these excellent photographs from the very talented Grace Elkin do all the talking instead. You can see the rest of her pictures here.

Make sure you’re signed up to receive the Zombie Times (click here if you’re not signed up already), and do yourself a favour: when tickets for the 2014 event go on sale, get in quick. This is an annual event that no self-respecting zombie fan can afford to miss. Special thanks, as always, must go to the man in the first photo below: the driving force behind the festival and the Zombie Times, the one and only Zombie Ed.

UK Festival of the Undead - photo by Grace Elkin photography (www.graceelkinphotography.co.uk)
UK Festival of the Undead - photo by Grace Elkin photography (www.graceelkinphotography.co.uk)
UK Festival of the Undead - photo by Grace Elkin photography (www.graceelkinphotography.co.uk)
UK Festival of the Undead - photo by Grace Elkin photography (www.graceelkinphotography.co.uk)
UK Festival of the Undead - photo by Grace Elkin photography (www.graceelkinphotography.co.uk)