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From White Zombie to Dawn of the Dead, from Resident Evil to World War Z, zombies have invaded popular culture, becoming the monsters that best express the fears and anxieties of the modern west. The ultimate consumers, zombies rise from the dead and feed upon the living, their teeming masses ever hungry, ever seeking to devour or convert, like mindless, faceless eating machines. Zombies have been depicted as mind-controlled minions, the shambling infected, the disintegrating dead, the ultimate lumpenproletariat, but in all cases, they reflect us, mere mortals afraid of death in a society on the verge of collapse.

Gathering together the best zombie literature of the last three decades from many of today’s most renowned authors of fantasy, speculative fiction, and horror, including Stephen King, Harlan Ellison®, Robert Silverberg, George R. R. Martin, Clive Barker, Poppy Z. Brite, Neil Gaiman, Joe Hill, Laurell K. Hamilton, and Joe R. Lansdale, The Living Dead, covers the broad spectrum of zombie fiction, ranging from Romero-style zombies to reanimated corpses to voodoo zombies and beyond.
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Publisher
Night Shade Books
Language
English
Pages
487

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2008, Night Shade Books
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Jan 01, 2008, Night Shade Books

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Published in

San Francisco

Table of Contents

Introduction / John Joseph Adams --
This year's class picture / Dan Simmons --
Some zombie contingency plans / Kelly Link --
Death and suffrage / Dale Bailey --
Ghost dance / Sherman Alexie --
Blossom / David J. Schow --
The third dead body / Nina Kiriki Hoffman --
The dead / Michael Swanwick --
The dead kid / Darrell Schweitzer --
Malthusian's zombie / Jeffrey Ford --
Beautiful stuff / Susan Palwick --
Sex, death, and starshine / Clive Barker --
Stockholm syndrome / David Tallerman --
Bobby Conroy comes back from the dead / Joe Hill --
Those who seek forgiveness / Laurell K. Hamilton --
In beauty, like the night / Norman Partridge --
Prairie / Brian Evenson --
Everything is better with zombies / Hannah Wolf Bowen --
Home delivery / Stephen King --
Less than zombie / Douglas E. Winter --
Sparks fly upward / Lisa Morton --
Meathouse man / George R.R. Martin --
Deadman's road / Joe R. Lansdale --
The skull-faced boy / David Barr Kirtley --
The age of sorrow / Nancy Kilpatrick --
Bitter grounds / Neil Gaiman --
She's taking her tits to the grave / Catherine Cheek --
Dead like me / Adam-Troy Castro --
Zora and the zombie / Andy Duncan --
Calcutta, lord of nerves / Poppy Z. Brite --
Followed / Will McIntosh --
The song the zombie sang / Harlan Ellison and Robert Silverberg --
Passion play / Nancy Holder --
Almost the last story by almost the last man / Scott Edelman --
How the day runs down / John Langan.

Edition Notes

Copyright Date
2008

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.0873808
Library of Congress
PS648.Z64 L58 2008, PS648.Z64L58 2008

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
487 p. ;
Number of pages
487

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23106668M
Internet Archive
livingdead00adam
ISBN 10
1597801437
ISBN 13
9781597801430
LCCN
2008024900
OCLC/WorldCat
225873882, 1036688658
Library Thing
5675367
Goodreads
3302568

Work Description

Contains:
This year's class picture / Dan Simmons --
Some zombie contingency plans / Kelly Link --
Death and suffrage / Dale Bailey --
Ghost dance / Sherman Alexie --
Blossom / David J. Schow --
The third dead body / Nina Kiriki Hoffman --
The dead / Michael Swanwick --
The dead kid / Darrell Schweitzer --
Malthusian's zombie / Jeffrey Ford --
Beautiful stuff / Susan Palwick --
Sex, death, and starshine / Clive Barker --
Stockholm syndrome / David Tallerman --
Bobby Conroy comes back from the dead / Joe Hill --
Those who seek forgiveness / Laurell K. Hamilton --
In beauty, like the night / Norman Partridge --
Prairie / Brian Evenson --
Everything is better with zombies / Hannah Wolf Bowen --
Home Delivery / Stephen King --
Less than zombie / Douglas E. Winter --
Sparks fly upward / Lisa Morton --
Meathouse man / George R.R. Martin --
Deadman's road / Joe R. Lansdale --
The skull-faced boy / David Barr Kirtley --
The age of sorrow / Nancy Kilpatrick --
Bitter grounds / Neil Gaiman --
She's taking her tits to the grave / Catherine Cheek --
Dead like me / Adam-Troy Castro --
Zora and the zombie / Andy Duncan --
Calcutta, lord of nerves / Poppy Z. Brite --
Followed / Will McIntosh --
The song the zombie sang / Harlan Ellison and Robert Silverberg --
Passion play / Nancy Holder --
Almost the last story by almost the last man / Scott Edelman --
How the day runs down / John Langan.

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