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