It's a Golden Age of the Undead these days, and of the hundreds of different zombie stories that have emerged in recent years, Max Brooks' novel World War Z stands out as one of the more ambitious. Using an epistolary style that retells a zombie apocalypse that has already happens, Brooks wrote a book which owed as much to Studs Terkel's The Good War or Haruki Murakami's Underground as it did Romero's Night of the Living Dead. By presenting the end of the world in the past tense, the book managed to be both exciting, inventive and, at times, oddly moving. It was not just a terrific zombie story, but a terrific book regardless of genre.