History Literature / BloodOfTheZombies

Written by Ian Livingstone in late-2012 to celebrate the 30th Anniversary Milestone of the Cult-Favourite ''ChooseYourOwnAdventure'' Gamebook franchise Literature/FightingFantasy, ''Literature/BloodOfTheZombies'' is a spiritual successor to ''Literature/HouseOfHell'' written by Literature/FightingFantasy co-creator and best-friend Steve Jackson in 1984. Received a simultaneous iOS adptation by the Australian Mobile Game Company, Tin Man Games.

You are a mythology major of [[{{Oxbridge}} Bolingbroke College]] travelling across Europe, writing a thesis on legendary monsters. Having no luck in finding an hint of even {{Dracula}} in Transylvania, you happened upon a bar in a dreary little village where you made the mistake of sharing your story with two shady men.

* {{Oxbridge}}: Bolingbroke College, the generic lawyer-friendly English University from which you hail.

! ''Blood Of The Zombies'' Contains The Following Tropes
* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: Where you will encounter ''mutant rats'' (which, apparently, aren't zombies.
* ActionGirl / FinalGirl: Amy, the beautiful teenage cook who you will rescue later on.

* BigBad: Gingrich Yurr, zombie-obsessed MadScientist and master of Goraya Castle, is your main antagonist nurturing a whole army of zombies in his castle. [[spoiler: He also serves as the FinalBoss and last Zombie you have to fight after he infects himself.]] Unlike many other examples in the series, he's a FlatCharacter at best.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: Make sure you draw a map and keep count of ALL the zombies you fight/kill and explore each and ''every'' nook and cranny you did not explore in the last playthrough. This is the ''only'' way you can eventually have the Happy True Ending. You have to count every zombie you killed and turn to that page. [[spoiler: There are 333.]]
* TheEveryman: You are just a college kid trying to write a thesis; now charged with saving the world. In a way, you start out like the guy does in ''House of Hell'', but the big difference is, in the previous book, acting like the typical gung-ho fantasy hero like other Literature/FightingFantasy books was the [[WrongGenreSavvy wrong way to do it]] and would just get you killed. In ''this'' book, you kind of ''have'' to adopt that kind of attitude to survive.

* FisticuffsBoss: [[spoiler: The final confrontation with Yurr in the right path has you and him fighting barehanded.]]
* GatlingGood: You get to commandeer a ''Browning .45 Machine Gun Platform'' in the climatic battle, just like Creator/SylvesterStallone in {{Rambo}}.
* GiantMook: Yurr's favourite Zombie, bearing the cringe-worthy name of Zombie Kong, who needs a roll of 20 or higher from you and Amy to bite the dust and deals 6 points of damage if you fail to kill him. There's also a huge zombie who attacks you from the attic's roof.

* MadScientist: Gingrich Yurr, LargeHam Eurotrash BigBad extraordainer who wants to turn ''everyone'' on the planet (himself included) into zombies.
* NervesOfSteel: Should you reach the Happy True Ending, not only is your university-student character ''not'' traumatized and scarred-for-life by his or her ordeal, but is still mentally-stable enough to write a ''thesis'' about the monsters he/she fought that allows him/her to graduate with honors from Bolingbroke College!!

* OneHitPointWonder: In sharp contrast to the rest of the series, all the zombies you encounter only have 1 Stamina point, allowing you to mow them down easily enough... except that, more often than not, they appear in large numbers and you loss 1 Stamina point per round for each Zombie still moving after your attack. The sole exceptions are Zombie Kong (who takes a roll of 20 from the combined efforts of yours and Amy's gunfire) and [[spoiler: Gingrich Yurr, who has a stamina of 7.]]

* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Created through virus infected blood harvested from voodoo zombies in the Carribean. While they're mostly feral and shambling, a few of them seems still capable of mangled speech and strategy, [[spoiler: at one point they even turn to watch their master Yurr as he transforms himself into a Zombie. The latter seems capable of operating weapons, but cannot drive very well, showing that he retained some personality.]]

* TheManyDeathsOfYou / HaveANiceDeath: The iPhone version is doubly nasty in that when you are finally defeated in combat upon being reduced to Zero Stamina, you are treated to a graphic account of being swarmed, overwhelmed and torn to bits and/or infected by the zombies. Not pleasant at all.

--> ''"You are faced with five zombies; which should be no trouble at all for a veteran undead hunter like you!!"''

* ZombieApocalypse: The BadEnd if you survive the castle without kiling every single last zombie.
* ZombieInfectee: If you get ''any'' of the zombie's blood into your wounds, you will become one. [[TooDumbToLive Handling a zombie-blood-covered book right after a fierce battle without rubber gloves?]] Your funeral.

* ''AbsurdlySpaciousSewer'': Where you will encounter ''mutant zombie rats''

* BigBad: Gingrich Yurr, zombie-obsessed MadScientist and master of Goraya Castle, is your main antagonist nurturing a whole army of zombies in his castle. [[spoiler: He also serves as the FinalBoss and last Zombie you have to put out after he infects himself.]]

* GiantMook: Yurr's favourite Zombie, bearing the cringe-worthy name of Zombie Kong, who needs a roll of 20 or higher from you and Amy to bite the dust and deals 6 points of damage if you fail to kill him.

* OneHitPointWonder: In sharp contrast to the rest of the series, all the zombies you encounter only have 1 Stamina point, allowing you to mow them down easily enough... except that, more often than not, they appear in large numbers and you loss 1 Stamina point per round for each Zombie still moving after your attack.

* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Created through virus infected blood harvested from voodoo zombies in the Carribean. While they're mostly feral and shambling, a few of them seems still capable of mangled speech and strategy, [[spoiler: at one point they even turn to watch their master Yurr as he transforms himself into a Zombie.]]

* ChainsawGood: Averted; not only will the chainsaw reduce your precious stamina by 1 just for carrying it (because it is so ''darned heavy''), it is ''weaker'' than the Shotgun/Machine-Gun that you have picked up by then. And it's ''only'' use in the narrative is to chop through a door locked by a frightened girl with a pistol, [[TooDumbToLive which ends as realistically well for you as it sounds.]]

* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Created through virus infected blood harvested from voodoo zombies in the Carribean.

* ClicheStorm: A loving, loving homage of Zombie Films like ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968'' and ''Franchise/EvilDead.''

* EarnYourHappyEnding: Make sure you draw a map and keep count of ALL the zombies you fight/kill and exlore each and ''every'' nook and cranny you did not explore in the last playthrough. This is the ''only'' way you can eventually have the Happy True Ending. You have to count every zombie you killed and turn to that page. [[spoiler: There are 333.]]

Written by Ian Livingstone in late-2012 to celebrate the 30th Anniversary Milestone of the Cult-Favourite ''ChooseYourOwnAdventure'' Gamebook franchise Literature/FightingFantasy, ''Literature/BloodOfTheZombies'' is a spiritual successor to ''Literature/HouseOfHell'' written by Literature/FightingFantasy co-creator and best-friend Steve Jackson in 1984. Receieved a simultaneous iOS adptation by the Australian Mobile Game Company, Tin Man Games.

And just like ''House of Hell'', it is set on Modern Day Earth rather than Titan, starring you as an Everyman hero.

Not if you have anything to say about it!! Strangling your captor unconcious, you now must escape Goraya Castle ''and'' slay each and every last ghoul shambling within; for if you leave even ONE alive, a tide of moaning zombies will consume the world.

* GatlingGood: You get to commandeer a ''Browning .45 Machine Gun Platform'' in the climatic battle, just like SylvesterStallone in {{Rambo}}.

* ClicheStorm: A loving, loving homage of Zombie Films like ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead'' and ''Franchise/EvilDead.''

Written by Ian Livingstone in late-2012 to celebrate the 30th Anniversary Milestone of the Cult-Favourite ''ChooseYourOwnAdventure'' Gamebook franchise Literature/FightingFantasy, ''Literature/BloodOfTheZombies'' is a spiritual successor to ''Literature/HouseOfHell'' written by FightingFantasy co-creator and best-friend Steve Jackson in 1984. Receieved a simultaneous iOS adptation by the Australian Mobile Game Company, Tin Man Games.

* TheEveryman: You are just a college kid trying to write a thesis; now charged with saving the world. In a way, you start out like the guy does in ''House of Hell'', but the big difference is, in the previous book, acting like the typical gung-ho fantasy hero like other FightingFantasy books was the [[WrongGenreSavvy wrong way to do it]] and would just get you killed. In ''this'' book, you kind of ''have'' to adopt that kind of attitude to survive.

* ClicheStorm: A loving, loving homage of Zombie Films like ''NightOfTheLivingDead'' and ''EvilDead.''

* SurvivalHorror: Stamina is rarely replenished, forcing you to raiont healing resources and choose with tactical thinking when or when not to throw your precious grenades.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: Make sure you draw a map and keep count of ALL the zombies you fight/kill and exlore each and ''every'' nook and cranny you did not explore in the last playthrough. This is the ''only'' way you can eventually have the Happy True Ending.

* GottaCatchThemAll: EVERY SINGLE LAST one of the zombies must be killed by the end of the book; leave even ''one'' surviving and you'll fast forward straight to the Bad End even if your character makes it out of the castle alive.

* TheEveryman: You are just a college kid trying to write a thesis; now charged with saving the world.

* The Many Deaths of You / Have a Nice Death: The iPhone version is doubly nasty in that when you are finally defeated in combat upon being reduced to Zero Stamina, you are treated to a graphic account of being swarmed, overwhelmed and torn to bits and/or infected by the zombies. Not pleasant at all.

You are a mythology major of [[{Oxbridge}} Bolingbroke College]] travelling across Europe, writing a thesis on legendary monsters. Having no luck in finding an hint of even {{Dracula}} in Transylvania, you happened upon a bar in a dreary little village where you made the mistake of sharing your story with two shady men.

You are a mythology major of Bolingbroke College travelling across Europe, writing a thesis on legendary monsters. Having no luck in finding an hint of even {{Dracula}} in Transylvania, you happened upon a bar in a dreary little village where you made the mistake of sharing your story with two shady men.

•The Many Deaths of You / Have a Nice Death: The iPhone version is doubly nasty in that when you are finally defeated in combat upon being reduced to Zero Stamina, you are treated to a graphic account of being swarmed, overwhelmed and torn to bits and/or infected by the zombies. Not pleasant at all.

Written by Ian Livingstone in late-2012 to celebrate the 30th Anniversary Milestone of the CultFavourite ''ChooseYourOwnAdventure'' Gamebook franchise Literature/FightingFantasy, ''Literature/BloodOfTheZombies'' is a spiritual successor to ''Literature/HouseOfHell'' written by FightingFantasy co-creator and best-friend Steve Jackson in 1984. Receieved a simultaneous iOS adptation by the Australian Mobile Game Company, Tin Man Games.

* CllicheStorm: A loving, loving homage of Zombie Films like ''NightOfTheLivingDead'' and ''EvilDead.''

* ZombieApocalypse: The BadEnd if you survive the castle without kiling every single last zombie.

Written by Ian Livingstone in late-2012 to celebrate the 30th Anniversary Milestone of the CultFavourite ''ChooseYourOwnAdventure'' Gamebook franchise Literature/FightingFantasy, ''Literatuer/BloodOfTheZombies'' is a spiritual successor to ''Literature/HouseOfHell'' written by FightingFantasy co-creator and best-friend Steve Jackson in 1984. Receieved a simultaneous iOS adptation by the Australian Mobile Game Company, Tin Man Games.

Written by Ian Livingstone in late-2012 to celebrate the 30th Anniversary Milestone of the CultFavourite ''ChooseYourOwnAdventure'' Gamebook franchise Literature/FightingFantasy, ''BloodOfTheZombies'' is a spiritual successor to ''Literature/HouseOfHell'' written by FightingFantasy co-creator and best-friend Steve Jackson in 1984. Receieved a simultaneous iOS adptation by the Australian Mobile Game Company, Tin Man Games.

* AbsurdlySpaciousSewers: Where you will encounter ''mutant zombie rats''
* ActionGirl/FinalGirl: Amy, the beautiful teenage cook who you will rescue later on.