John Joseph Adams (ed.) - The Living Dead

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John Joseph Adams (ed.) - The Living Dead (Nightshade, 2008)

David Palumbo

John Joseph Adams - Introduction

Dan Simmons - This Year's Class Picture
Kelly Link - Some Zombie Contingency Plans
Dale Bailey - Death and Suffrage
Sherman Alexie - Ghost Dance
David J. Schow - Blossom
Nina Kiriki Hoffman - The Third Dead Body
Michael Swanwick - The Dead
Darrell Schweitzer - The Dead Kid
Jeffrey Ford - Malthusian's Zombie
Susan Palwick - Beautiful Stuff
Clive Barker - Sex, Death and Starshine
David Tallerman - Stockholm Syndrome
Joe Hill - Bobby Conroy Comes Back from the Dead
Laurell K. Hamilton - Those Who Seek Forgiveness
Norman Partridge - In Beauty, Like the Night
Brian Evenson - Prairie
Hannah Wolf Bowen - Everything Is Better with Zombies
Stephen King - Home Delivery
Douglas E. Winter - Less Than Zombie
Lisa Morton - Sparks Fly Upward
George R. R. Martin - Meathouse Man
Joe R. Lansdale - Deadman's Road
David Barr Kirtley - The Skull-Faced Boy
Nancy Kilpatrick - The Age of Sorrow
Neil Gaiman - Bitter Grounds
Catherine Cheek - She's Taking Her Tits to the Grave
Adam-Troy Castro - Dead Like Me
Andy Duncan - Zora and the Zombie
Poppy Z. Brite - Calcutta, Lord of Nerves
Will McIntosh - Followed
Harlan Ellison & Robert Silverberg - The Song the Zombie Sang
Nancy Holder - Passion Play
Scott Edelman - Almost the Last Story by Almost the Last Man
John Langan - How the Day Runs Down

Blurb:
"When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth!"

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 .... mindless, faceless eating machines. Zombies have been portrayed as mind-controlled minions, the shambling infected, the disintegrating dead, and 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, The Living Dead covers a broad spectrum of zombie fiction: From Romero-style zombies to reanimated corpses to voodoo zombies and beyond.

Got this yesterday, £1.50 from the Spitalfields Trust Charity Shop (Watney Market chapter). Several stories cannibalised from previous zombie anthologies - notably Skipp & Spector's excellent Book Of The Dead and sequel - but selection also includes enough unfamiliar items to entice those few of us who ain't entirely all zombied out just yet.