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Post by dem bones on Nov 3, 2009 20:37:41 GMT
Zombie News. Robinson are apparently publishing a Stephen Jones collection Zombie Apocalypse next year, not sure if it's a reissue of Mammoth Book Of Zombies, an all-new collection or even a UK edition of this, which i just learned from Gary McMahon's Different Skins, is available now from Ulysses Press. And yes, that really is an ® against Harlan Ellison's name. Stephen Jones (ed.) - The Dead That Walk: Flesh-Eating Stories (Ulysses, Dec. 2009) Les Edwards Stephen Jones - Introduction
Richard Matheson & Richard Christian Matheson - Where There's A Will Yvonne Navarro - For The Good Of All Michael Marshall Smith - The Things He Said Mark Samuels - The Last Resort Joe Hill - Bobby Conroy Comes Back From The Dead Weston Ochse - The Crossing Of Aldo Ray David J. Schow - Obsequy Nancy Holder - Zombonia H.P. Lovecraft - Cool Air Ramsey Campbell - Call First Lisa Morton - Joe And Abel In The Field Of Rest Brian Keene - Midnight At The Body Farm Gary McMahon - Dead To The World Joe. R. Lansdale - The Long Dead Day Kelly Dunn - A Call To Temple Clive Barker - Haeckel's Tale Christopher Fowler - The Rulebook Robert E. Howard - Black Canaan Stephen Woodworth - The Silent Majority Harlan Ellison ® - Sensible City Robert Shearman - Granny's Grinning Kim Newman - Amerikanski Dead At The Moscow Morgue or: Children Of Marx And Coca Cola Scott Edelman - Tell Me Like You Done Before Stephen King - Home DeliveryBlurb: The Dead Walk Among Us! Of all the ghoulish monsters, zombies are the most horrific. Reanimated corpses of real people - perhaps even a former friend or relative - these undead brethren rise from the grave to devour your delicious, living flesh. Far more sophisticated than the brain-eating mobs popularized in movies, zombies are as diverse as living humans, and this collection presents the complete blood-rich history of zombie literature set in the early 19th century, the Great Depression and the futuristic zombie apocalypse of tomorrow. Bringing together the greatest zombie authors-Stephen King, Richard Matheson, Clive Barker, Harlan Ellison, H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Ramsey Campbell, Joe R. Lansdale, Kim Newman, Michael Marshall Smith, Joe Hill, and many others- The Dead That Walks offers terrifying tales of dread that will drag you screaming into a nightmare world where dissolution does not mean the end and those who survive are next on the menu.
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Post by marksamuels on Nov 3, 2009 23:02:23 GMT
Wicked cover!!!!!!
Shame that wanker Samuels is in it, but hey ho.
Mark S.
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Post by mattofthespurs on Nov 4, 2009 13:52:14 GMT
Wicked cover!!!!!! Shame that wanker Samuels is in it, but hey ho. Mark S. Agreed. It's put me right off it.
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Nov 5, 2009 19:18:55 GMT
No discussion of zombies should fail to list William Tenn's "Down Among the Dead Men" Although this is SF - hide your head Dem - it is classically horrible.
Mankind is losing a war in space and there aren't enough men to fight the alien and insect-like Eoti. (Nearly crabs)
Solution -make some new ones out of the bits left over from battles.
The zombies talk back in this and even if you are a non-sf chap its well worth a read
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Post by dem bones on Nov 5, 2009 21:54:14 GMT
don't you reckon a lot of modern zombie fiction is sci-horror? You don't really see the Dead Men Working In The Cane Fields voodoo tales quite so often post- Night Of The Living Dead. The Skipp & Spector edited, Splatterpunk-heavy Book Of The Dead anthology is just about as horror as you can get, but most of the stories are set AZ (After Zombification) which is pretty much a SF concept, kind of The Planet Of The Apes but with rotting, flesh-eating dead bastards from hell instead. As to William Tenn, i've read some of his straight horror & supernatural stories. Put it this way, Down Among the Dead Men sounds plenty better.
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Nov 5, 2009 23:45:44 GMT
Yes, there was a definite move from the zombie of the darkest netherworlds and voodoo lands to the plague-driven future zombie.
I saw rage 2 recently and felt a sense of bewilderment, particularly where the zombie dad focused in on his kids. The director used the concept rage = maniacal fury running about like a mad person killing things - fine by me.
Then moved to a Halloween-like shot of standing still, zombie dad with sinister expression and sentient look. Inconsistency I am afraid and it didn't work.
All that modernism killed it in the end. I would campaign to bring back the good old shuffling zombie...
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