History NightmareFuel / WorldWarZ

** Considering that the real life China Lake is a weapons testing and development station, it's been speculated among fans that it was something like [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Tennessee_Anthropological_Research_Facility the Body Farm]], with weapons being tested on zombies. While sound in theory, consider what it would be like to actually ''live'' there, spending your days mutilating dozens of not-quite-dead zombies with all manner of weapons before trying to get some sleep with a head full of echoing gunfire and visions of gore and mutilations - all while the dead constantly moan. And then you have to get up and do it again, and again, and again...

** What is the most terrifying aspect of the transformation from man to zombie is this: You're conscious for every second of it, and it is clearly painful. Those twelve seconds? There's no doubt that they feel like twelve thousand years of absolute agony. [[AndIMustScream Perhaps worse is the psychological aspect of it: You're fully conscious and aware as the virus takes over your body and mind, and overwrites you, transforming you into nothing more than a vehicle to transport the virus to other hosts.]]

* In an interview with the astronaut, he mentions that they got to watch the Three Gorges Dam collapse. For reference, this is a dam whose reservoir is so large that it slowed down ''the Earth's rotation,'' and it's located upstream from cities like Wuhan, Nanjing and Shanghai. Even from space, it looked like a raging brown and white dragon, engulfing everything in its path, with people unable to escape thanks to the zombies. Nobody knows how many died, and more than a decade afterward, they're ''still'' finding bodies.

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--> '''Terry Hughes''': "...that water.....It told us so much."

** It gets worse. Fast forward to 1998 where an acclaimed film director called Jacob Tailor decided to set out to a remote village in Siberia in order to photograph a preserved Sabretooth Tiger specimen, finding out that they had also managed to recover the frozen body of the infected Cossack as well. After returning to Toronto for a breather, several of Tailor’s film crew went back to prepare the bodies, only to them to mysteriously lose contact and vanish. Roughly three weeks later the director and the rest of his entourage return to the site only to find the aftermath of a bloodbath, and then proceed to witness a [[DevouredByTheHorde mob of at least thirty six infected people, some of which were the missing crew members, mauling the pilots of their helicopter]] before turning their unholy appetite upon them. What follows is the director and what’s left of his film crew fighting for survival as they’re besieged by the voracious horde in a nearby farmhouse, only figuring out the secret to killing them after one of the zombies grabs the broom handle they were using, breaks it off, and after being kicked back down the stairs ends up accidentally impaling another zombie in the eye with it. Then it transitions into a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome as they then proceed to use this newfound knowledge to methodically kill their attackers in a seven hour battle using only their wits and some melee weapons.

* Brooks has stated that one of his fears is that of a zombie, a creature that comes for you for no reason, could not be reasoned with, and unstoppable. He neatly conveys this to the reader through one of the stories, where it's described that no human country can be 100% devoted to war (due to elderly, babies and the disabled) while zombies had no such handicap.