Stephen King Goes Zombie (ish)

January 26, 2006

Stephen King’s new book, Cell, sounds like an end of the world extravaganza complete with zombie-like crazies. They aren’t the walking dead variety, but more like the 28 Days Later type.

I have only read the first two chapters (courtesy of Entertainment Weekly), but the basic premise is that a “pulse” shoots through all the cell phones causing their owners to go ape shit. Biting, killing, and maiming people, doggies, and just about anything else they can get their hands on.

I dig the end of world, zombie stories so I will have to pick this one up.

2 Responses to “Stephen King Goes Zombie (ish)”


  1. BTW, I did read this and it was good. The ending kind of sucked though. It was one of those that left it up to you to decide what happened.


  2. [...] the two films, Fido sounds the most interesting. The Signal sounds kind of like a rip-off of Stephen King’s Cell. Also, they are not truly zombie, but just crazy people (e.g. 28 Days Later). I like my zombies [...]


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