Could you outrun an undead Jeffrey Archer? Could you fend off the reanimated corpse of Virginia Woolf with a selection of experimental fiction in hardback?
Consider the possibilities here.
Michael Crichton was a big lad, would make an imposing Wight, long reach and difficult to bring down
Charles Dickens would probably be good as a zombified pursuer. He’d be extra-vengeful.
Frodo Baggins.
It took him bloody AGES to get there the first time. Can you imagine how long the bloody books would be if he was a zombie!?
Marquis de Sade would not be nice. I'm not sure about Casanova either.
Tiny Tim probably wouldn't be too much bother, unless the little bastard was in a group. You wouldn't notice him, with all the adults.
Rushdie would be quite frightening. Also Jilly Cooper.
DBC Pierre would be one of those zombies that runs, and could jump out at you from a darkened doorway
Most of the rest of them would just lumber towards you and could be easily outpaced
Horseflesh might distract a zombie Jilly Cooper for long enough for you to make your escape.
#10 - Characters are up for grabs here just as much as authors, I think.
Zombie Marcel Proust transported back to his childhood home in Combray by the transcendent taste of braaiiinnns.
Jane Austen would be fearsome. All that polite, English lady thing is just a front for her ravening brain-hunger.
The zombie lonely long distance runner would be a zoombie.
Haruki Murakami as he is a keen runner.
A zombie Stephen King would be pretty similar to the un-undead version until he scooped your brains out. So beware.
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