The Dead That Walk

Edited by Stephen Jones.

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.

Contents:

Introduction: Shoot'em in the Brain by Stephen Jones
Where There's a Will by Richard Matheson and Richard Christian Matheson
For the Good of All by Yvonne Navarro
The Things He Said by Michael Marshall Smith
The Last Resort by Mark Samuels
Bobby Conroy Comes Back From the Dead by Joe Hill
The Crossing of Aldo Ray by Weston Ochse
Obsequy by David J. Schow
Zombonia by Nancy Holder
Cool Air by H. P. Lovecraft
Call First by Ramsey Campbell
Joe and Abel in the Field of Rest by Lisa Morton
Midnight at the Body Farm by Brian Keene
Dead to the World by Gary McMahon
The Long Dead Day by Joe. R. Lansdale
A Call to Temple by Kelly Dunn
Haeckel's Tale by Clive Barker
The Rulebook by Christopher Fowler
Black Canaan by Robert E. Howard
The Silent Majority by Stephen Woodworth
Sensible City by Harlan Ellison
Granny's Grinning by Robert Shearman
Amerikanski Dead at the Moscow Morgue or: Children of Marx and Coca Cola by Kim Newman
Tell Me Like You Done Before by Scott Edelman
Home Delivery by Stephen King

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Release date: December 2009

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Stephen Jones

Stephen Jones (born 1953) is an acclaimed editor of numerous award-winning horror anthologies, and the author of several book-length studies of horror and fantasy films as well as an account of Lovecraft's early British publications. Jones has edited anthologies such as the Best New Horror series, Dark Terrors, The Mammoth Book of Vampires, The Mammoth Book of Zombies, The Mammoth Book of Dracula, The Mammoth Book of Frankenstein, The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women, The Vampire Stories of R. Chetwynd-Hayes and The Conan Chronicles, 1 and The Conan Chronicles, 2 by Robert E. Howard. Jones has also been co-editor of several books with Kim Newman, such as Horror: 100 Best Books and Horror: Another 100 Best Books with 200 essays on seminal horror books by acclaimed writers of this genre. Jones also edited Dancing with the Dark, a collection of stories of allegedly real life encounters with the paranormal by established horror writers. Jones has been the recipient of a Hugo award and many Bram Stoker Awards.