Filmmaker George Romero birthed the modern zombie, and now he’s finally ready to reveal all the secrets of the walking dead. In his first novel, Romero will explain the full capabilities of the undead and how the zombie plague began.

UK publisher Headline has signed Romero for a book delving into the mythology he helped create, simply titled The Living Dead. The book will explain what zombies can and cannot do, and will finally give us Romero’s take on the origin of zombies and how the world at large reacts.

Headline will publish The Living Dead in July 2010.

Today George Romero’s Survival of the Dead launched a huge attack on the web by opening up several different things. They have official launched a Twitter and MySpace page and also tossed in a pretty cool behind the scenes video. Check out that video below and be sure to stick around for more as we hear it.