The purpose of this paper is to examine how the literary narrative forms (novels, short stories) have seized the zombie, an iconic figure that mostly pertains (thanks to George A. Romero) to the horror film genre. We draw a comparison between the literary zombie and its cinematic (Romero) and comic (Kirkman) counterparts. We then identify five categories of zombie books : the zombie short fiction anthologies, the zombie novels per se, the zomedies and mash-ups, the zombie fiction that stems from non-Anglophone countries, and the elaborate (in literary terms) zombie speculations.