The World Is Dead

A zombie anthology. Edited by Kim Paffenroth.

The end of the world has come and gone. The dead have risen, and they've won. No more rallying of the troops. No miracle cure or weapon. Just lots of dead people walking around. If the living dead won, what would the world be like?

This collection of eighteen tales – including entries from David Wellington, Jack Ketchum, and Gary A. Braunbeck – take up the call to answer that question. People go to work. Have sex. Get drunk. Fall in love. Take revenge. Raise families. Watch TV. Laugh. Mourn. Murder. Pray.

The world is dead, but life goes on.

Contents:

• Dead Man's Land by David Wellington
• The Visitor by Jack Ketchum
• Glorietta by Gary A. Braunbeck
• The Loneliest Man in the World by Bobbie Metevier
• Genuflect by William D. Carl
• Dead Men Can't Complain by Peter Clines
• December Warming by William Bolen
• Bridge over the Cunene by Gustavo Bondoni
• A Bite to Remember by Jennifer Brozek
• What Comes After by Kris Dikeman
• The Office Party by Walter Jarvis
• The New Dumb by Kyle Johnson
• The Blue Word by Carole Lanham
• Gather Round, Gather Round by Dave Macpherson
• Fleeing, on a Bicycle with Your Father, from the Living Dead by Ralph Robert Moore
• Cured Meat by Christine Morgan
• The Song of Absent Birds by Mark Onspaugh
• Working Man's Burden by David Pinnt