You wouldn’t think that a zombie forum with thousands upon thousands of forum members with scores of posts a day would be in trouble of ceasing to exist. Yet, that’s the very predicament of popular zombie site All Things Zombie. Established sometime in 2003, the site was designed to be a one stop shop for zombies and in some ways, the site managed to achieve some of these ambitious goals.

But as we know, as time change so does one’s passions. Some time before the release of Diary of the Dead, site owner Dead Kev appears to have found other interests, leaving the main site of All Things Zombie a snapshot of zombie culture in 2007. Perusing the main site, you’ll find links to articles that no longer exists. You’ll discover previews for zombie games that have long been canceled. You’ll find discussions for upcoming movies that have been long released. In a word, derelict.

But yet, it gets worse. Users are noticing the lack of new faces. Moderators are getting slammed for being too heavy handed with merges and deletes. Normal site events have all but disappeared, and now the specter of death hangs over the forum. It has become clear to the community that one day they will return to their beloved site and find an empty website.

And where is Dead Kev? He was last seen in April, fixing a server outage but not a word from him since. Emails goes unanswered. Private messages are unopened. In a word, he’s done. The only thing that matters is the ad revenue. Once that dries up, so will the site.

Still there are other places like zombie-nation.net (although they have to get their main site in order as well) as well as a plethora of horror related web sites to visit as well. It’s just a shame that a work horse like ATZ should die a slow painful death. In it’s heyday, it was a force of sorts. Now, it is the very thing that it loves … a walking corpse that wanders the wastes of the internet.

Fare thee well, All Things Zombie. We hardly knew thee.