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An anthology of zombie short fiction from some of the biggest names in horror and speculative fiction - including Stephen King, George R. R. Martin and Neil Gaiman

When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth!

From White Zombie to Dawn of the Dead, 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.

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 short fiction.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (The Living Dead) - (2008) - essay by John Joseph Adams
• This Year's Class Picture - (1992) - shortstory by Dan Simmons
• Some Zombie Contingency Plans - (2005) - novelette by Kelly Link
• Death and Suffrage - (2002) - novelette by Dale Bailey
• Ghost Dance - (2003) - shortstory by Sherman Alexie
• Blossom - (1989) - shortstory by David J. Schow
• The Third Dead Body - (1993) - shortstory by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
• The Dead - (1996) - shortstory by Michael Swanwick
• The Dead Kid - (2002) - shortstory by Darrell Schweitzer
• Malthusian's Zombie - (2000) - novelette by Jeffrey Ford
• Beautiful Stuff - (2004) - shortstory by Susan Palwick
• Sex, Death and Starshine - (1984) - novelette by Clive Barker
• Stockholm Syndrome - (2007) - shortstory by David Tallerman
• Bobby Conroy Comes Back from the Dead - (2005) - shortstory by Joe Hill
• Those Who Seek Forgiveness - (2006) - shortstory by Laurell K. Hamilton
• In Beauty, Like the Night - (1992) - shortstory by Norman Partridge
• Prairie - (1997) - shortstory by Brian Evenson
• Everything Is Better with Zombies - (2006) - shortstory by Hannah Wolf Bowen
• Home Delivery - (1989) - novelette by Stephen King
• Less Than Zombie - (1989) - shortstory by Douglas E. Winter
• Sparks Fly Upward - (2005) - shortstory by Lisa Morton
• Meathouse Man - (1976) - novelette by George R. R. Martin
• Deadman's Road - (2007) - novelette by Joe R. Lansdale
• The Skull-Faced Boy - (2002) - shortstory by David Barr Kirtley
• The Age of Sorrow - (2007) - shortstory by Nancy Kilpatrick
• Bitter Grounds - (2003) - novelette by Neil Gaiman
• She's Taking Her Tits to the Grave - (2008) - shortstory by Catherine Cheek
• Dead Like Me - (2000) - shortstory by Adam-Troy Castro
• Zora and the Zombie - (2004) - novelette by Andy Duncan
• Calcutta, Lord of Nerves - (1992) - shortstory by Poppy Z. Brite
• Followed - (2006) - shortstory by Will McIntosh
• The Song the Zombie Sang - (1970) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison and Robert Silverberg
• Passion Play - (1992) - shortstory by Nancy Holder
• Almost the Last Story by Almost the Last Man - (2007) - novelette by Scott Edelman
• How the Day Runs Down - novelette by John Langan