Anticipating that America will soon get over our vampire fascination, AMC is investing heavily in zombies. Frank Darabont's new series, 'The Walking Dead,' hasn't even pushed its first fist up through the soil and the network is already renewing it for a 13-episode second season.

Appropriately, the first wave of zombies will hit AMC on Oct. 31. The show is based on Robert Kirkman's monthly black and white comic series and follows a group of people struggling to survive after the zombie apocalypse. Wait, isn't that every zombie storyline? Why is AMC clamoring to renew it so quickly?

Comic Con audiences, of course, went berserk for the trailer this year. It has since enjoyed an overwhelming response on the Internet.

AMC's willingness to stick by atypical dramas has continued to pay off, as evidenced by this year's Emmy Awards. We guess they already knew this project would get at least two seasons upon giving it the go-ahead -- especially with the writer/director of 'Shawshank Redemption' and 'The Green Mile' at the helm.

We already know the first season will be set in the Atlanta summer. There's speculation the second season will continue to follow the source material's storyline, which has the characters struggling through winter.

"There's some really cool stuff that Kirkman did, where they find the one zombie that's frozen to the ground," Darabont said in an interview with Comic Book Movie. "I'd never seen that before, and that's really cool."

Hey Darabont, as long as you keep 'The Mist' away from the series, we're on board for as many frozen zombies as you want. We're already pretty scared by the trailer.