Zombie Siege

 For today's countdown to Halloween post, I want first to qualify what I said on my Thursday post. I said I never liked zombies much as antagonists in horror stories. Too one note, too gross, too slow. Maybe I am being unfair. As I enjoy a good zombie attack, which can create genuine suspense as much as terror. Zombies are good for minions, if nothing else. The zombie attack, or zombie siege, was used to great effect in Where the Shadows Stalk of the Forbidden Gateway  gamebook series. Okay, so they are called mutants, but they truly are zombies, in any way, shape or form. There is one episode of the gamebook where these creatures attack the house of Professor Charles Petrie-Smith in the middle of the night. It's a great moment in the game, scary and tense. And it also brings back the zombies to their initial function in tradition: they are not the main antagonists but servants of evil entities. One of the many reasons why I love the Forbidden Gateway gamebook series, which was tragically short lived.