If you can find this novelization of the movie, and for a good price, you are very fortunate, I've been looking for about 2 years, finally found one that wasn't $35 or more, and...wow. On one hand it's a lot like the movie (of course) but it's different in some ways too, during the cemetery attack Barbara gets a tree limb to use as a club, the zombie starts biting Johnny's face off, there're several chapters told from the sheriff's point of view, and it includes pictures from the movie. And also, some people will probably know this, this was not in the movie, but Ben has two boys, and the farmhouse they are in, belongs to the old lady which they find upstairs mutilated, but also her 11 year old grandson, whose bed is covered in blood but he is nowhere to be found...so you've gotta wonder what happened before Tom and the others ever got there.