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Zombies! Zombies! Zombies! is the darkest, the living-deadliest, scariest--and dare we say most tasteful--collection of zombie stories ever assembled. It’s so good, it's a no-brainer.
There is never a dull moment in the world of zombies. They are superstars of horror and they are everywhere, storming the world of print and visual media. Their endless march will never be stopped. It's the Zombie Zeitgeist! Now, with his wide sweep of knowledge and keen eye for great storytelling, Otto Penzler offers a remarkable catalog of zombie literature. Including unstoppable tales from world-renowned authors like Stephen King, Joe R. Lansdale, Robert McCammon, Robert E. Howard, and Richard Matheson to the writer who started it all, W.B. Seabrook, Zombies! Zombies! Zombies! will delight and devour horror fans from coast to coast.
Featuring:
• Deadly bites
• Satanic Pigeons
• A parade of corpses
• Zombies, zombies, and more zombies
About the Author
Otto Penzler lives in New York City.
Table of Contents
Otto Penzler: Introduction
W. B. Seabrook: Dead Men Working in the Cane Fields
David A. Riley: After Nightfall
Hugh B. Cave: Mission to Margal
Chet Williamson: The Cairnwell Horror
Arthur Leo Zagat: Crawling Madness
Lisa Tuttle: Treading the Maze
Karen Haber: Red Angels
Michael Marshall Smith: Later
Vivian Meik: White Zombie
Guy de Maupassant: Was It a Dream?
Steve Rasnic Tem: Bodies and Heads
Dale Bailey: Death and Suffrage
Henry Kuttner: The Graveyard Rats
Edgar Allan Poe: The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
Yvonne Navarro: Feeding the Dead Inside
Charles Birkin: Ballet Nègre
Geoffrey A. Landis: Dead Right
Graham Masterton: The Taking of Mr. Bill
Jack D’Arcy: The Grave Gives Up
H. P. Lovecraft: Herbert West–Reanimator
H. P. Lovecraft: Pickman’s Model
Robert Bloch: Maternal Instinct
Kevin J. Anderson: Bringing the Family
Richard Laymon: Mess Hall
Sheridan Le Fanu: Schalken the Painter
Thorp McClusky: While Zombies Walked
Mary A. Turzillo: April Flowers, November Harvest
Mort Castle: The Old Man and the Dead
Henry S. Whitehead: Jumbee
Peter Tremayne: Marbh Bheo
Thomas Burke: The Hollow Man
Anthony Boucher: They Bite
Gahan Wilson: Come One, Come All
Ramsey Campbell: It Helps If You Sing
R. Chetwynd-Hayes: The Ghouls
Seabury Quinn: The Corpse-Master
F. Marion Crawford: The Upper Berth
Ralston Shields: Vengeance of the Living Dead
Harlan Ellison and Robert Silverberg: The Song the Zombie Sang
John H. Knox: Men without Blood
Uel Key: The Broken Fang
Theodore Sturgeon: It
Day Keene: League of the Grateful Dead
Garry Kilworth: Love Child
Edith and Ejler Jacobson: Corpses on Parade
Richard and Christian Matheson: Where There’s a Will
Michael Swanwick: The Dead
Manly Wade Wellman: Song of the Slaves
H. P. Lovecraft: The Outsider
Robert McCammon: Eat Me
Joe R. Lansdale: Deadman’s Road
Robert E. Howard: Pigeons from Hell
Scott Edelman: Live People Don’t Understand
August Derleth and Mark Schorer: The House in the Magnolias
Stephen King: Home Delivery
Arthur J. Burks: Dance of the Damned
Theodore Roscoe: Z Is for Zombie