PFDW #24 Interview with George Romero's The Living Dead co-author Daniel Kraus

In this episode of  Postcards from a Dying World we speak with  Daniel Kraus the man hired by the Romero estate to finish the novel  George A. Romero was writing at his death. The director of Night of  Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead and many more created the zombie genre in  1968 and this novel The Living Dead will serve as his final statement. In this interview, we talk about the influence of  Romero, How Kraus came up as an author, working with two famous masters of horror and the nuts  and bolts of taking Romero's unfinished novel, and the hard work it took to finish the 700-page book. Daniel Kraus is a New York Times bestselling author. With Guillermo del Toro, he co-authored The Shape of Water, based on the same idea the two created for the Oscar-winning film. Also with del Toro, Kraus co-authored Trollhunters, which was adapted into the Emmy-winning Netflix series. Kraus’s The Death and Life  of Zebulon Finch was named one of Entertainment Weekly‘s Top  10 Books of the Year, and he has won two Odyssey Awards, YALSA Best  Fiction for Young Adults, and was a Bram Stoker finalist. •You can find my books here: https://bookshop.org/contributors/david-agranoff    Amazon-https://www.amazon.com/David-Agranoff/e/B004FGT4ZW     •And me here:  Goodreads-http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2988332.David_Agranoff   Twitter-https://twitter.com/DAgranoffAuthor   Blog-http://davidagranoff.blogspot.com/