I freely admit: De Bello Lemures, Or The Roman War Against the Zombies of Armorica is one of the more obscure ones I’ve picked. It is a translation – oh, don’t look at me like that – of a Roman’s account of his encounter with the Living Dead; and the translator (Thomas Brookside, and stop snickering) gives a certain dry wit and academic japery to the whole thing. Plus, the footnotes entertain.
And so, farewell to Hoka! Hoka! Hoka! What would the Hokas have made of zombie fiction? Be grateful that question was never answered. Continue reading Book of the Week: “De Bello Lemures, Or The Roman War Against the Zombies of Armorica.”