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The straight horror screenplay version of RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD that was sold before it was revised and made into a horror comedy by Dan O'Bannon
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John Russo co-authored the original Night of the Living Dead script with Romero. Later on, he came up with a new slant on the zombie apocalypse, with a little more humor added, in Return of the Living Dead, which diverged from the grimmer Romero series and created its own franchise. His mass-market paperback novelization of that movie came out in 1978. I found a copy of it in a thrift store in downtown Dallas in the late Eighties, shoved on a shelf amid multiple copies of Reader’s Digest, its spine split, its pages marked up by an unknown…
From Ralph's list on The best novels about things ending badly—really badly.
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