The Living Dead
By: edited by John Joseph Adams.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Night Shade Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 487
ISBN-13: 9781597801430
Copyright date: 2008
Description: 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, like mindless, faceless eating machines. Zombies have been depicted as mind-controlled minions, the shambling infected, the disintegrating dead, 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, including Stephen King, Harlan Ellison®, Robert Silverberg, George R. R. Martin, Clive Barker, Poppy Z. Brite, Neil Gaiman, Joe Hill, Laurell K. Hamilton, and Joe R. Lansdale, The Living Dead, covers the broad spectrum of zombie fiction, ranging from Romero-style zombies to reanimated corpses to voodoo zombies and beyond.
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Table of contents: title: Introduction
pagenum: 1; title: This Year's Class Picture
pagenum: 4; title: Some Zombie Contingency Plans
pagenum: 22; title: Death and Suffrage
pagenum: 39; title: Ghost Dance
pagenum: 68; title: Blossom
pagenum: 78; title: The Third Dead Body
pagenum: 83; title: The Dead
pagenum: 98; title: The Dead Kid
pagenum: 108; title: Malthusian's Zombie
pagenum: 120; title: Beautiful Stuff
pagenum: 137; title: Sex, Death and Starshine
pagenum: 148; title: Stockholm Syndrome
pagenum: 180; title: Bobby Conroy Comes Back from the Dead
pagenum: 186; title: Those Who Seek Forgiveness
pagenum: 202; title: In Beauty, Like the Night
pagenum: 211; title: Prairie
pagenum: 225; title: Everything Is Better with Zombies
pagenum: 229; title: Home Delivery
pagenum: 236; title: Less Than Zombie
pagenum: 257; title: Sparks Fly Upward
pagenum: 268; title: Meathouse Man
pagenum: 277; title: Deadman's Road
pagenum: 299; title: The Skull-Faced Boy
pagenum: 321; title: The Age of Sorrow
pagenum: 332; title: Bitter Grounds
pagenum: 345; title: She's Taking Her Tits to the Grave
pagenum: 360; title: Dead Like Me
pagenum: 369; title: Zora and the Zombie
pagenum: 377; title: Calcutta, Lord of Nerves
pagenum: 394; title: Followed
pagenum: 405; title: The Song the Zombie Sang
pagenum: 412; title: Passion Play
pagenum: 423; title: Almost the Last Story by Almost the Last Man
pagenum: 433; title: How the Day Runs Down
pagenum: 457; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: 487