Night Of The Living Dead director George A. Romero has a horror novel coming out posthumously this YEAR… after filmmaker’s death in 2017

Night Of The Living Dead director George A. Romero has released a horror novel posthumously this year – following his death in 2017 at the age of 77.

Romero created the Night Of The Living Dead franchise with the original series film in 1968 and has since been considered a titan of the zombie film genre.

Later in his career, he broke into books, collaborating with author Daniel Kraus on the horror novel The Living Dead, which was published three years after Romero’s death.

Now another novel, Pay The Piper, co-written by the two men, will be released sometime this fall, according to People.

The book follows a town in Louisiana whose residents are threatened by an infanticidal swamp creature, forcing them to confront their nefarious ancestral history.

The book, titled Pay The Piper and co-written by Daniel Kraus, follows a town in Louisiana whose residents are threatened by an infanticidal swamp animal.

Renée Pontiac, the nine-year-old protagonist, is one of the townspeople in the fictional Louisiana backwater, Alligator Point.

She escapes her difficult home life with an alcoholic father by retreating to books, such as the works of British horror maestro HP Lovecraft.

When children are murdered by a swamp creature called the Piper, all the horror stories Renée heard about the monster seem to be confirmed.

The townspeople must ultimately face the memory of their own ancestors: the Pirates Lafitte, a gang of slave traders.

Daniel Kraus, who has also worked with Guillermo Del Toro, completed Pay The Piper with the help of the Romero estate.

Kraus discovered Romero’s manuscript for Pay The Piper among the late filmmaker’s papers in the University of Pittsburgh library.

Romero died in July 2017 at the age of 77, after what his family described as a “short but aggressive battle with cancer.”

Night Of The Living Dead was his first feature film, made cheaply with simple special effects and a budget of just $114,000.

Romero created the Night Of The Living Dead franchise with the original series film in 1968 (pictured) and has since been considered a titan of the zombie film genre.

Romero broke into books late in his career, collaborating with Kraus on the horror novel The Living Dead, published three years after Romero’s death

Night Of The Living Dead was his first feature film, made cheaply with simple special effects and a budget of just $114,000

The film hit the screens in 1968 and shocked audiences, becoming a huge hit despite critics complaining about the bloodshed.

The film hit the screens in 1968 and shocked audiences, becoming a huge hit despite critics complaining about the gore.

Romero continued to make films in the franchise and established himself as a long-standing beloved icon of the horror genre.

Despite his association with zombie films in particular, he turned down an offer to direct multiple episodes of the smash AMC series The Walking Dead.

“I’ve always used the zombie as a character for satire or political criticism, and I miss that in what’s happening now,” he said. The big problemdismissing The Walking Dead as “just a soap opera with the occasional zombie.”

Romero was survived by his widow Suzanne Desrocher Romero, as well as their son Andrew and their daughter Tina.