Zombies: The Recent Dead

Edited by Paula Guran.

You can't kill the dead! Like any good monster, the zombie has proven to be ever-evolving, monumentally mutable, and open to seemingly endless imaginative interpretations: the thralls of voodoo sorcerers, George Romero's living dead, societal symbols, dancing thrillers, viral victims, reanimated ramblers, video gaming targets, post-apocalyptic permutations, shuffling sidekicks, literary mash-ups, the comedic, and, yes, even the romantic. Evidently, we have an enduring hunger for this infinite onslaught of the ever-hungry dead. Hoards of readers are now devouring zombie fiction faster than armies of the undead could chow down their brains. It's a sick job, but somebody had to do it: explore the innumerable necrotic nightmares of the latest, greatest, most fervent devotion in the history of humankind and ferret out the best of new millenial zombie stories: Zombies: The Recent Dead.

Contents:

• Preshamble by Paula Guran
• The Meat of the Matter by David J. Schow
• Deaditorial Note by Paula Guran
• Twisted by Kevin Veale
• The Things He Said by Michael Marshall Smith
• Naming of Parts by Tim Lebbon
• Dating Secrets of the Dead by David Prill
• Lie Still, Sleep Becalmed by Steve Duffy
• The Great Wall: A Story from the Zombie War by Max Brooks
• First Kisses from Beyond the Grave by Nik Houser
• Zora and the Zombie by Andy Duncan
• Obsequy by David J. Schow
• Deadman's Road by Joe R. Lansdale
• Bitter Grounds by Neil Gaiman
• Glorietta by Gary A. Braunbeck
• Beautiful White Bodies by Alice Sola Kim
• Farewell, My Zombie by Francesca Lia Block
• Trinkets by Tobias Buckell
• Dead Man's Land by David Wellington
• Disarmed and Dangerous by Tim Waggoner
• The Zombie Prince by Kit Reed
• Three Scenes from the End of the World by Brian Keene
• The Hortlak by Kelly Link
• Dead to the World by Gary McMahon
• The Last Supper by Scott Edelman