PUBLISHER’S NOTE

What fo llows i s a foun d manus cript. T he auth or/ill ustrato r of th is boo k,

Robert Twombly, was a blood specialist native to Seattle, Washington.

Dr. Twombly witnessed the worldwide necrotic infection that, as we

now know, began suddenly on or around January 7, 2012. The infection

lasted approximately one year, and during that time all known zombies

either decayed enough to succumb to their physical limitations or were

destroyed by pockets of human survivors.

Dr. Twombly’s journal is a unique record of the time of infection in

that it seeks to understand the undead by living among them. It is also

the record of the author’s day-to-day experiences at a time when such

records were not commonly kept.

The manuscript was found inside an empty cottage in the town of

Churchill, at the edge of Hudson Bay in northern Manitoba, Canada. The

whereabo uts and the fat e of th e author are unkn own. His notat ions h ave

been repr oduced h ere in t heir en tirety.