"Twenty-Three Snapshots of San Francisco" presented the common zombie apocalypse theme with a very unique tone due to its use of temporally distant photographs to relay a story. This presentation results in large, important sections of time being left out between the snapshots, which, due to the story being told by a reminiscing narrator, are heavily summarized and casually lumped in with the descriptions of the photographs. For instance, photograph #13 is simply a neighbor's door with scratch marks, whereas the very next photograph is of a dead Mr. Sumpter right after he attacked the narrator and Bradley. However, despite the radically disjoint atmospheres between the two pictures, the narrator explains both with nearly the same level of nonchalance, providing a very unique tone throughout the story.