Do you cross the street to avoid the graveyard ? Does a viral outbreak make you bolt the door ? How about street drugs that turn abusersinto cannibals, fungi that change insects into mindless biting machines, or people who swear they've spotted their dead loved ones laboringin the fields ?

Then maybe you should drop this book and lookfor a hiding place. NOW.

GURPS Zombies tackles all kinds of zombies - the classic walking dead, drugged Vodou slaves, fantasy undead, the virus-infected, and more :

- A survey of folkloric and fictional zombies by origin, type, and dramatic role.

- The living : screaming survivors, officials who won't believe their eyes until their faces are ripped off, born zombie-killers, and sinister zombie-masters.

- Extensive guidelines for building customized zombies to surprise your players.

- Ready-to-go examples, from B-movie ghouls, through necromantic undead, to still-living infected - and beyond, to mad-science monsters created by surgery, nanotech, or memetics.

- Rules for simple horde combat, fleeing for dear life, avoiding infection, curing zombies... and creating them.

- Advice on using zombies in any genre - not just horror.

GURPS Zombies requires the GURPS Basic Set, Fourth Edition.