Kurt Singer - Plague Of The Living Dead

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Kurt Singer (ed.) - The Plague Of The Living Dead & More Tales Of The Uncanny (Sphere, 1970: Ace/ Stoneshire, 1984)

A. Hyatt Verrill - The Plague Of The Living Dead
Robert W. Chambers - The Mask
John Steinbeck - The Affair At 7 Rue de M----------
Katherine Yates - Under The Hau Tree
Rudyard Kipling - The Strange Ride Of Morrowbie Dukes
Robert A. W. Lowdnes - The Abyss
Ray Bradbury - Fevre Dream
C. Hall Thompson - Spawn Of The Green Abyss

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A. Hyatt Verrill - The Plague Of The Living Dead: (Amazing Stories, April, 1927). Dr. Farnham, unfairly ridiculed by polite society over his experiments to discover a serum that will indefinitely prolong human life, leaves America for the island of Abilone where he can get on with his work in peace. With three derelicts as his assistants and a menagerie to decimate, he's soon triumphed over death to the point where a rabbit he decapitates carries on with its business until Farnham sews its head back on its body. When the Sugar Loaf volcano erupts, his lab is destroyed but at least he has plenty of lovely human corpses to play with. Unfortunately, once revived, the dead turn on the living, a mad, cannibalistic, head-hunting mob who can't be destroyed! And so ugly! Even though several have lost a limb or three, the missing heads, hands and what-have-you fuse together on contact. Farnham must now find a way to rid the world of these savage, mindless mutants before they can take over the world!

Katherine Yates - Under The Hau Tree: (Weird Tales, Nov. 1925). Joseph and Jennie promised each other a world tour to celebrate their marriage. They're not going to let the trifling business of being mangled in a train wreck stand in their way.