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ISBN: 1597801437 - The Living Dead  
Title:The Living Dead
Author:Stephen King
Joe Hill
George R. R. Martin
Clive Barker
Neil Gaiman
Laurell K. Hamilton
Joe R. Lansdale
Poppy Z. Brite
Harlan Ellison
John Joseph Adams (Editor)
Publisher:Night Shade Books
Type:Book / Paperback
Publication Date:29 September, 2008
ISBN / ISBN-13:1597801437  /  9781597801430
List Price:$15.95
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Amazon Price:$10.85

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Product Description
"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:

 • Great Read!
19 May, 2009

Come on, who doesn't love Zombies! This is a great anthology for anyone who does. Some of the stories are tame or just strange, but most of these are wonderfully graphic and horrific. I really enjoyed this book, you should really give it a shot.

- Reviewed by customer ID: A3C83E6ZYSZUMM

 • Some Gems, But Otherwise So-so
25 May, 2009

I found this to be an OK book, with some good stories, but all in all, just average. The stories "This Year's Class Picture", "Stockholm Syndrome", "Sparks Fly Upward", "Deadman's Road", "The Skull Faced Boy", "The Age of Sorrow", "Dead Like Me", and "How the Day Runs Down" are between very good and excellent. However, that is only eight of all the stories. The rest are adequate, but just not that great. The ones by the known authors (Stephen King, George R.R. Martin, Harlan Ellison, Robert Silverberg, etc) seem to be their second string work. A number of the stories have no actual zombies in them, but seem to be solely included because they mention zombies. There's also an odd number of theater related stories, which just seemed strange. I would consider this to be a book worth getting from the library, but not worth buying.

- Reviewed by customer ID: ADLQQENI7PDIN

 • Editor's Political Views Tainted His Choices
22 June, 2009

The best stories in this anthology are quite good, but they are few. Lots more are just a little dull. And, as noted, several are only "sorta" zombie stories ... meaning that the word "zombie" is mentioned, but there are no zombies. But mostly, I wish the editor had let readers know from the outset that he made many choices based on his political views, which plainly lean to the left, instead of on whether the stories were actually interesting or well written. Politics and zombie stories do go together, but it takes a master to weave them well, whether they espouse a left- or right-wing viewpoint. Too many of the authors featured in "The Living Dead" are incapable of that. Like many others, I'm sure, I bought this book after reading the immensely satisfying "World War Z". Now I wish I'd simply looked for "The Living Dead" at the library because my money would have been better spent elsewhere. For much better anthologies, seek out "Book of the Dead" (1989) and "Still Dead: Book of the Dead 2" (1992), edited by John Skipp and Craig Spector.

- Reviewed by customer ID: A1XEITRNN9UM4N

 • 50/50 On This Book
01 July, 2009

Hell some of the stories in this book are masterpices. A few will stay with you forever! Dan Simmons story ( This Years Class Picture ) is a story i loved and will never be able to get out of my mind. Others......not so much. Over all i would say get this book.

- Reviewed by customer ID: A3E2JDGTD3W5WD

 • This Is Why I Hate Anthologies
19 June, 2009

I'm not being a purist or anything, but I want my zombie stories to be about zombies. I don't need any overt (or covert) social commentary, nor stories which are so loosely based on "zombies" as to not be real zombies at all. I've read about half this book (18 of the stories), only about a handfull of which are worth the price of admission. Perhaps I'm being overly critical not having finished the whole book yet, but if this first half is any indicator, this book will just re-enforce why I dislike anthologies - you just don't know what you're going to get. The stories are written well, it's not a matter of any literary problems. It's just that I want zombie stories, not plain horror stories. More than half of the stories I've read thus far would fit into a horror anthology very well, but they do not belong in a book ostensibly devoted to zombies. If you're a more "cerebral" zombiephile, you may enjoy this book. If you want a book packed full of shambling, flesh-chomping, relentless zombies, this book is not for you.

- Reviewed by customer ID: A3DQQ8O3OH3MQV


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