Zombie Fiction Spotlight Day 3: Daniel Kraus Tells of The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch
Debi Moore
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We close out our week-long zombie fiction spotlight series today with a book that’s arriving just in time for Halloween: The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch, Volume One: At the Edge of Empire by Chicago-based writer and filmmaker Daniel Kraus.
Early readers of the book have called it their favorite of the year, some even saying it’s the best they’ve read in a decade! The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch is an epic fictional commentary on America following a corrupt young man whose death is just the beginning of his 200-year redemption. You’ll marvel at Kraus’ ability to describe the breaking of a bone, the decaying of a body, the brutality of a battle, and the tenderness of a kiss. But with Zebulon Finch, Kraus reveals warmth not readily present in his previous novels. Zebulon’s hunger for connection—and his fear of intimacy—guide the narrative, resulting in a story with brains, soul, and heart.
Kraus’ name may be familiar to you as we’ve previously covered his collaboration with Guillermo del Toro on Trollhunters, a YA horror novel released this past July. You’ll be able to find Zebulon Finch everywhere on October 27th courtesy of Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers.
We hope you enjoyed our zombie fiction spotlight. With colder weather approaching, we’re sure to be hearing from plenty of other authors with books they’d love to have horror fans curl up with on long winter nights so expect to see similar features over the coming months.
Synopsis:
May 7, 1896. Dusk. A swaggering seventeen-year-old gangster named Zebulon Finch is gunned down by the shores of Lake Michigan. But after mere minutes in the void, he is mysteriously resurrected.
His second life will be nothing like his first.
Zebulon’s new existence begins as a sideshow attraction in a traveling medicine show. From there he will be poked and prodded by a scientist obsessed with mastering the secrets of death. He will fight in the trenches of World War I. He will run from his nightmares—and from poverty—in Depression-era New York City. And he will become the companion of the most beautiful woman in Hollywood.
Love, hate, hope, and horror—Zebulon finds them. But will he ever find redemption?
Ambitious and heartbreaking, The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch, Volume One: At the Edge of Empire is the epic saga of what it means to be human in a world so often lacking in humanity.
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