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''Hanteringen av odöda'' (English: ''Handling the Undead'') is a 2005 horror novel by Swedish author Creator/JohnAjvideLindqvist about what happens when [[EverythingsDeaderWithZombies the dead start coming back]]. While it has some elements of a ZombieApocalypse, the story turns out to be [[PlayingWithATrope very different]]: [[spoiler: the zombies aren't dangerous themselves, just confused, and the whole phenomenon only lasts for about a month]]. Overall, the story focuses more on the living and how they handle encountering their dead loved ones again.

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''Hanteringen av odöda'' (English: ''Handling the Undead'') is a 2005 horror novel by Swedish author Creator/JohnAjvideLindqvist Creator/JohnAjvideLindqvist.

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about what happens when [[EverythingsDeaderWithZombies the dead start coming back]]. While it has some elements of a ZombieApocalypse, the story turns out to be [[PlayingWithATrope very different]]: [[spoiler: the zombies aren't dangerous themselves, just confused, and the whole phenomenon only lasts for about a month]]. month.

Overall, the story focuses more on the living and how they handle encountering their dead loved ones again.again.



* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Anyone who died on a certain night or up to roughly two months before it CameBackWrong.
** They aren't generally dangerous, at least not in the ways zombies usually are. They aren't [[TheVirus infectious]] and don't [[ImAHumanitarian eat people]].
** Their physical and mental condition is more or less realistic for corpses, which is to say, horrible. The "healthiest" zombie is a woman who died minutes before the awakening event in a car accident; she's damaged from the accident but could pass for alive otherwise. Most other zombies are decayed and/or embalmed, might be missing parts, are falling apart and smell horrible.
** They enable {{telepathy}} in people around them somehow. People who spend time near zombies can hear the thoughts of each other. Zombies act as mirrors for thoughts and emotions, acting as people expect them to sometimes.

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* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Anyone who died on a certain night or up to roughly two months before it CameBackWrong.
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CameBackWrong. They aren't generally dangerous, at least not in the ways zombies usually are. They aren't [[TheVirus infectious]] and don't [[ImAHumanitarian eat people]]. \n** Their physical and mental condition is more or less realistic for corpses, which is to say, horrible. The "healthiest" zombie is a woman who died minutes before the awakening event in a car accident; she's damaged from the accident but could pass for alive otherwise. Most other zombies are decayed and/or embalmed, might be missing parts, are falling apart and smell horrible. \n** They enable {{telepathy}} in people around them somehow. People who spend time near zombies can hear the thoughts of each other. Zombies act as mirrors for thoughts and emotions, acting as people expect them to sometimes.



* ZombieApocalypse: The dead come back to life, but they aren't after brains. They still frighten people and upend society, though. They even cause {{Telepathy}} in people around them and react to what people ''think'' of them. The societal breakdown that they caused is partially a result of people's expectations. And at the end of the novel, the zombies do indeed become dangerous and attack people and animals.

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* ZombieApocalypse: The dead come back to life, but they aren't after brains. They still frighten people and upend society, though. They even cause {{Telepathy}} in people around them and react to what people ''think'' of them. The societal breakdown that they caused is partially a result of people's expectations. And at the end of the novel, the zombies do indeed become dangerous and attack people and animals.animals.

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''Hanteringen av odöda'' (English: ''Handling the Undead'') is a 2005 horror novel by Swedish author John Ajvide Lindqvist about what happens when [[EverythingsDeaderWithZombies the dead start coming back]]. While it has some elements of a ZombieApocalypse, the story turns out to be [[PlayingWithATrope very different]]: [[spoiler: the zombies aren't dangerous themselves, just confused, and the whole phenomenon only lasts for about a month]]. Overall, the story focuses more on the living and how they handle encountering their dead loved ones again.

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''Hanteringen av odöda'' (English: ''Handling the Undead'') is a 2005 horror novel by Swedish author John Ajvide Lindqvist Creator/JohnAjvideLindqvist about what happens when [[EverythingsDeaderWithZombies the dead start coming back]]. While it has some elements of a ZombieApocalypse, the story turns out to be [[PlayingWithATrope very different]]: [[spoiler: the zombies aren't dangerous themselves, just confused, and the whole phenomenon only lasts for about a month]]. Overall, the story focuses more on the living and how they handle encountering their dead loved ones again.
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* BlankSlate[=/=]EmptyShell: The zombies. They have no will of their own, but react to the emotions of those around them.

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* BlankSlate[=/=]EmptyShell: BlankSlate: The zombies. They have no will of their own, but react to the emotions of those around them.



* ZombieApocalypse: Subverted. The dead come back to life, but they aren't after brains.
** Played with in other ways as well. Even though the zombies aren't threatening, they still frighten people and upend society. They even cause {{Telepathy}} in people around them and react to what people ''think'' of them. The societal breakdown that they caused is partially a result of peoples' expectations.
*** At the end of the novel, the zombies do indeed become dangerous and attacks people and animals.

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* ZombieApocalypse: Subverted. The dead come back to life, but they aren't after brains.
** Played with in other ways as well. Even though the zombies aren't threatening, they
brains. They still frighten people and upend society.society, though. They even cause {{Telepathy}} in people around them and react to what people ''think'' of them. The societal breakdown that they caused is partially a result of peoples' expectations.
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people's expectations. And at the end of the novel, the zombies do indeed become dangerous and attacks attack people and animals.
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''Hanteringen av odöda'' (English: ''Handling the Undead'') is a 2005 horror novel by Swedish author John Ajvide Lindqvist about what happens when [[EverythingsDeaderWithZombies the dead start coming back]]. While it has some elements of a ZombieApocalypse, the story turns out to be [[PlayingWithATrope very different]]: [[spoiler: the zombies aren't dangerous themselves, just confused, and the whole phenomenon only lasts for about a month]]. Overall, the story focuses more on the living and how they handle encountering their dead loved ones again.
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!This novel provides examples of:
* BlankSlate[=/=]EmptyShell: The zombies. They have no will of their own, but react to the emotions of those around them.
* OurSoulsAreDifferent: [[spoiler: They look like butterflies. Eventually. First, though, they look like ''caterpillars''.]]
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Anyone who died on a certain night or up to roughly two months before it CameBackWrong.
** They aren't generally dangerous, at least not in the ways zombies usually are. They aren't [[TheVirus infectious]] and don't [[ImAHumanitarian eat people]].
** Their physical and mental condition is more or less realistic for corpses, which is to say, horrible. The "healthiest" zombie is a woman who died minutes before the awakening event in a car accident; she's damaged from the accident but could pass for alive otherwise. Most other zombies are decayed and/or embalmed, might be missing parts, are falling apart and smell horrible.
** They enable {{telepathy}} in people around them somehow. People who spend time near zombies can hear the thoughts of each other. Zombies act as mirrors for thoughts and emotions, acting as people expect them to sometimes.
* PuppeteerParasite: Early on we see ethereal white grub-like things near zombies. It seems to be an alien force that's responsible for the zombies. [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. The white things aren't grub-like, they're caterpillar-like. Because they're the souls of the zombies, going back into them]].
* ZombieApocalypse: Subverted. The dead come back to life, but they aren't after brains.
** Played with in other ways as well. Even though the zombies aren't threatening, they still frighten people and upend society. They even cause {{Telepathy}} in people around them and react to what people ''think'' of them. The societal breakdown that they caused is partially a result of peoples' expectations.
*** At the end of the novel, the zombies do indeed become dangerous and attacks people and animals.

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