Just in time for Warm Bodies‘ theatrical release on February 1, Isaac Marion will publish in eBook form a Warm Bodies prequel entitled The New Hunger.

A sample was released today!

According to EW, who had the exclusive, the Warm Bodies prequel “will take place soon after the natural disasters and government collapse that made Earth a crawling ground for hungry corpses. Separated from their parents, 16-year-old Nora and her younger brother Addis fight to escape zombies that are pursuing them. Meanwhile, R wakes up in the woods with no memory of who he is, and Julie is stuck on an odd road trip with her parents.”

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We’ll let you know on Monday where you can purchase The New Hunger. The author has also promised a sequel to Warm Bodies, which he is working on right now.

If you can’t wait for the Warm Bodies movie, watch the first four minutes now. The film was written and directed by Jonathan Levine (50/50) based on the novel by Marion. After a zombie epidemic, R (a highly unusual zombie) encounters Julie (a human survivor), and rescues her from a zombie attack. Julie sees that R is different from the other zombies, and as the two form a special relationship in their struggle for survival, R becomes increasingly more human – setting off an exciting, romantic, and often comical chain of events that begins to transform the other zombies and maybe even the whole lifeless world.