The living dead are more alive than ever! Zombies have become more than an iconic monster for the twenty-first century: they are now a phenomenon constantly revealing as much about ourselves—and our fascination with death, resurrection, and survival—as our love for the supernatural or post-apocalyptic speculation.
Our most imaginative literary minds have been devoured by these incredible creatures and produced exciting, insightful, and unflinching new works of zombie fiction. We've again dug up the best stories published in the last few years and compiled them into an anthology to feed your insatiable hunger . . .
**CONTENTS**
Return of the Preshamble • Paula Guran
The Afflicted • Matthew Johnson
Dead Song • Jay Wilburn
Iphigenia in Aulis • Mike Carey
Pollution • Don Webb
Becca at the End of the World • Shira Lipkin
The Naturalist • Maureen F. McHugh
Selected Sources for the Babylonian Plague of the Dead (572-571 BCE) • Alex Dally MacFarlane
What Maisie Knew • David Liss
Rocket Man • Stephen Graham Jones
The Day the Music Died • Joe McKinney
The Children’s Hour • Marge Simon
Delice • Holly Newstein
Trail of Dead • Joanne Anderton
The Death and Life of Bob • William Jablonsky
Stemming the Tide • Simon Strantzas
Those Beneath the Bog • Jacques L. Condor (Maka Tai Meh)
What Still Abides • Marie Brennan
Jack and Jill • Jonathan Maberry
In the Dreamtime of Lady Resurrection • Caitlín R. Kiernan
Rigormarole • Michael A. Arnzen
Kitty’s Zombie New Year • Carrie Vaughn
The Gravedigger of Konstan Spring • Genvieve Valentine
Chew • Tamsyn Muir
’Til Death Do Us Part • Shaun Jeffrey
There Is No “E” in Zombi Which Means There Can Be No You or We • Roxane Gay
What Once We Feared • Carrie Ryan
The Harrowers • Eric Gregory
Resurgam • Lisa Mannetti
I Waltzed with a Zombie • Ron Goulart
Aftermath • Joy Kennedy-O’Neill
A Shepherd of the Valley • Maggie Slater
The Day the Saucers Came • Neil Gaiman
Love, Resurrected • Cat Rambo
Present • Nicole Kornher-Stace
The Hunt: Before, and the Aftermath • Joe R. Lansdale
Bit Rot • Charles Stross