A few toughts about zombies by Alison Littlewood AH, ZOMBIES. ZOMBIES! Those stinky denizens of the realm of the walking dead. I have to confess, I’d never written a story with zombies in it until someone asked me to. I think that’s partly because I didn’t grow up reading genre fiction. I borrowed my brother’s Stephen King novels when I was younger, but other than that I read anything and everything that fell into my grasp. I remember a few years ago going to a writers’ convention, and having to go away and Google “Cthulhu”. Once I realised it was genre fiction that got me itching to get to the keyboard I’ve naturally become more immersed in it and I’ve grown to love it dearly. But I’ve had to play catch-up to see what has gone before, and it’s difficult to shake the sense of coming to it from the outside. So, writing about one of the horror readers’ best-loved tropes, and one with such a long history, was kind of daunting. On the other hand, when ...