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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 fiction.
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Customer Reviews:
• Terrible
09 January, 2010
As a fan of the Romero type zombie genre, I was expecting more, but this anthology was awful. Very few of the stories kept me a week. This is from a person who is used to dry reading. Is it asking too much to expect an entertaining story without it being preachy. Besides the boredom, many stories were so politically over the top that it reeked of propaganda.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Okay, But Far From Great.
15 February, 2010
As others have stated, this book often misses the mark. As one reviewer stated, it's often liberalism meets zombies. However, there are a few decent stores in this collection. Most of these can be found in other, superior anthologies. I don't want to know the author's political agenda, I just want to read good zombies stories. This volume generally does not deliver.
- Amazon Customer Review
• The Living Dead Edited By John Joseph Adams
01 February, 2010
If you like Zombies then you'll enjoy reading The Living Dead. It's a creepy bunch of stories with a wide range of styles.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Zombies!
21 February, 2010
If you enjoy the zombie genre, you will like this book. Many stories by many authors means that you are very likely to find more than one story that you will enjoy.
- Amazon Customer Review
• A Must Have For The Zombie Fans
04 January, 2010
The living dead is an anthology containing stories about zombies, not only the shambling brain eating romero kind, but also voodoo zombies, supernatural zombies and even brainwashed zombies.
Anthologies usually contain one or two good stories, several 50/50 and several bad ones. That's not the case with this one, since it only contains one story I would call bad. There are a couple that leave you wondering what they're about or what sense they make, but even those are beautifully well written.
Some highlights include:
This year's class picture: the first story in the book, about a teacher who's trying to do what she does best after the zombie apocalypse. Beautiful and hopeful.
Some zombie contingency plans: this is the only story I completely disliked. There aren't even zombies in it, just some guy who thinks about zombies a lot.
Death and suffrage: the dead come back to vote. Despite the silly sounding premise, it's a very interesting story.
The dead kid: a coming of age story who happens to involve a zombie kid, and a living who turns his life around thanks to him.
Stockholm Syndrome: a very powerful story about a lonely man holed up in a house during the zombie apocalypse, trying to determine if there's a difference between himself and the dead. Packs quite a punch.
Bobby Conroy comes back from the dead: an unusual story in that it doesn't involve real zombies, just a boy and a girl who meet again after many years in the set of one of Romero's movies. Pretty good read, written by Joe Hill, a very promising author, in my opinion.
Home Delivery: Stephen King writes about a pregnant woman who lives in an island town that somehow managed not to get hit so hard during the zombie outbreak. Very good, but you already knew that when you read who wrote it.
Dead like me: this is an extremely good story that it's hard to read. It's about how far would you go, and what you would do in order to survive. It's the only story that stayed in my mind for some time after reading it.
Beautiful stuff: the dead are brought back by politicians to try and sway public opinion, but one of the zombies has his own opinions he wants to share. Makes you think about the important things in life.
How the day runs down: the last story in the book, is a monologue by the stage manager from "Our town" recounting the zombie outbreak from 2 or 3 points of view. Very powerful, especially the part about a couple and their children living in what they tought was a safe neighborhood.
The stories in this book look at the living dead from all possible angles, from zombie apocalypse to zombies as a business or workforce, to dead people who come back from the grave to seek justice.
To put it shortly, if you like zombies, you'll like the stories in this book.
- Amazon Customer Review
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