Common themes, genre features, and other threads that run through groups of zombie narrative texts. If a genre is a collection of affiliated texts, the patterns of affliliation are the connective tissue of the genre. We can look at a kind of genealogy of zombie texts, their production patterns, how they define zombies, and the ongoing concerns the texts reflect as ways of understanding what work zombie texts do within their cultures.

Zombie Timeline

A chronolgical listing of zombie texts in all media.

Themes and Motifs

Ideas, concerns, questions, images, and actions that appear in multiple zombie narratives.

Character Archetypes

Recurring character types common to zombie narratives.

Franchises

Collections of texts across multiple media reflecting a single extended mega-narrative.