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Marvel Zombies

Robert Kirkman2006

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  • Red Hill

    Jamie McGuire2013

    Three groups of survivors attempt to reach a ranch during a sudden zombie outbreak. The story follows their separate paths to the same refuge.

    sardonic → tense, still zombie apocalypse

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Denser prose

sardonic → dreamlike

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  • Gormenghast

    Mervyn Peake1950

    A young heir and a social climber navigate the rigid rituals of a decaying, labyrinthine castle. The prose is dense and descriptive.

    sardonic → dark

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  • The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

    James Hogg1824

    A religious fanatic becomes convinced he is predestined for salvation and commits crimes at the behest of a mysterious stranger.

    sardonic → cold

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  • Ghost Stories

    Henry James2001

    A collection of Victorian tales where the existence of ghosts is often left to the reader's interpretation.

    sardonic → meditative

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To recover

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  • Mere Christianity

    C.S. Lewis1943

    A series of radio transcripts explaining the core tenets of the Christian faith. It uses logic and analogy to define common moral ground.

    sardonic → earnest

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  • Nicomachean Ethics

    Aristotle

    A philosophical inquiry into human happiness, defining virtue as a mean between extremes of behavior and character.

    sardonic → clinical

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  • The Murder at the Vicarage

    Agatha Christie1930

    An elderly woman in a small village observes her neighbors to solve the shooting of a local magistrate. Multiple people confess to the crime.

    sardonic → wry

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Faster

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  • Battle Royale

    Koushun Takami1999

    A class of junior high students is trapped on an island and forced to kill each other until one remains. It follows several students' perspectives.

    sardonic → propulsive

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  • Creepers

    David Morrell2005

    Five urban explorers break into a long-abandoned hotel in New Jersey and find themselves trapped with a killer.

    sardonic → tense

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  • Patient Zero

    Jonathan Maberry2009

    A detective joins a secret government task force to stop a terrorist group using a bio-weapon that reanimates the dead. It is an action thriller.

    sardonic → propulsive

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Slower

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  • Ulysses

    James Joyce1914

    Three characters wander through Dublin on a single day in 1904. Each chapter uses a different literary style to mimic thoughts and sensations.

    sardonic → playful

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  • Absalom, Absalom!

    William Faulkner1936

    The rise and fall of Thomas Sutpen is recounted through multiple, conflicting memories. The prose uses extremely long, complex sentences.

    sardonic → elegiac

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  • Either/Or

    Søren Kierkegaard1992

    A collection of papers presents two life philosophies: the aesthetic pursuit of pleasure and the ethical commitment to duty.

    sardonic → meditative

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Heavier

sardonic → bleak, still zombie

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  • Night of the Living Dead

    John Russo2004

    A group of strangers barricades themselves inside a farmhouse to survive a night of attacks by reanimated corpses.

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  • Wet Work - The Definitive Edition

    Philip Nutman2007

    A biological weapon turns the American population into cannibalistic monsters. A soldier and his daughter navigate the gore-filled collapse.

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  • Frankenstein

    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley1818

    Victor Frankenstein assembles a living being from scavenged parts. The narrative follows the creature's rejection and its violent revenge.

    sardonic → elegiac

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