The Living Dead
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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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Series
Series
2 primary books#1 in The Living Dead
The Living Dead is a 2-book series with 2 released primary works first released in 1974 with contributions by Joe Hill, Stephen King, and Dan Simmons.
Series
2 primary books#1 in Skull-Faced
Skull-Faced is a 2-book series with 2 released primary works first released in 2008 with contributions by Joe Hill, Stephen King, and Dan Simmons.
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I have tried to read several short story collections. This is the first one I've finished, and read front to back. This book goes far beyond just zombies, with stories that are exciting, disturbing, moving, funny, thought-provoking, and even kind of sexy. I've always had faith that the horror genre had so much more to say than people give it credit for, and this book is a perfect example.
“Horrible” is all I can think of to describe this book. Even the one or two stories that were halfway decent couldn't save this travesty of a collection. Apparently, just thinking about zombies or being dressed up like zombies in the story made it qualify as a zombie tale, and therefore made it eligible for inclusion in this book. I have The Living Dead 2, and here's to hoping that it's better than this (when I can bring myself to read it, that is.)
