Fear is the most basic emotion we have. Fear is primal. Fear sells.

Zombies have no memories of their former life. You wont see the undead trying to wash windows or do your taxes. All they know how to do is swarm and feed.

Often, a school is your best bet-perhaps not for education but certainly for protection from an undead attack.

You can watch 'Dawn of the Dead' and still sleep at night. Try that with 'The Day After'.

I think the fascination with zombies is that they don't obey the rules of monsters. The first rule of monsters is that you have to go find them. You have to make a conscious choice to go to the swamp or the desert or the abandoned summer camp.

With so much protection, wouldn't one be able to wander among the undead ranks, taunting them at will with no danger of repercussion?

I don't mind my work being a record of the time it was written in.