Book of the Dead
World Fantasy Award nominee 1990.
Edited by John Skipp and Craig Spector.
You hold in your hands what is perhaps the most explicit and overt anthology of original horror fiction ever assembled.
Each of the stories in this anthology is set in a world where the dead have risen to eat the living, and each author has his own intimate version of what those days will be like: in the brilliant and caustic "On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert with Dead Folks," Joe R. Lansdale spins what should be a traditional western yarn about a lawman tracking a badman – the deadly dead, however, give that tradition a special twist. Stephen King's pregnant heroine in "Home Delivery" learns the exorbitant price of survival and of patience; Robert R. McCammon's "Eat Me" answers all the questions about love among the newly risen; and Douglas E. Winter's "Less Than Zombie" allows us a very unhealthy peek at the pampered, exclusive, and totally lifeless life-styles of the rich and famous.
Together these stories are a stream of timeless, mind-blowing spike points by some of the most talented, savage, and unique imaginations writing fiction today.
This is a book filled with flaming, frozen moments of dread and wonder you will never in a million years forget.
This is a book that goes too far...
and invites you along for the ride.
Contents:
- Foreword by George A. Romero
- Introduction: On Going Too Far by Craig Spector and John Skipp
- Blossom by Chan McConnell
- Mess Hall by Richard Laymon
- It Helps If You Sing by Ramsey Campbell
- Home Delivery by Stephen King
- Wet Work by Philip Nutman
- A Sad Last Love at the Diner of the Damned by Edward Bryant
- Bodies and Heads by Steve Rasnic Tem
- Choices by Glen Vasey
- The Good Parts by Les Daniels
- Less Than Zombie by Douglas E. Winter
- Like Pavlov's Dogs by Steven R. Boyett
- Saxophone by Nicholas Royle
- On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert With Dead Folks by Joe R. Lansdale
- Dead Giveaway by Brian Hodge
- Jerry's Kids Meet Wormboy by David J. Schow
- Eat Me by Robert R. McCammon
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John Skipp is a bestselling author and screenwriter whose eleven books have sold millions of copies and are reprinted in nine languages. His early works (co-written with Craig Spector) were considered seminal to the "splatterpunk" style of modern horror fiction. John Skipp split with Spector in 1993 to begin his successful solo career.
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