Christopher Golden – Zombie: An Anthology Of The Undead

Christopher Golden (ed.) – Zombie: An Anthology Of The Undead (Piatkus, Feb. 2012)

Cover: Per Haagensen

Christopher Golden – Introduction

John Connolly – Lazarus
David Liss – What Maisie Knew
Stephen R. Bissette – Copper
Tim Lebbon – In the Dust
Kelley Armstrong – Life Sentence
Holly Newstein – Delice
Max Brooks – Closure, LTD
Brian Keene – The Wind Cries Mary
Jonathan Maberry – Family Business
M.B. Homler – The Zombie Who Fell From the Sky
Derek Nikitas – My Dolly
Mike Carey – Second Wind
Aimee Bender – Among Us
Rick Hautala – Ghost Trap
Tad Williams – The Storm Door
James A. Moore – Kids and Their Toys
Joe R. Lansdale – Shooting Pool
David Wellington – Weaponized
Joe Hill – Twittering from the Circus of the Dead

Blurb:
RESURRECTION

The hungry dead have risen. They shamble down the street. They hide in backyards, car lots, shopping centres. They devour neighbors, dogs and policemen. And they are here to stay. The real question is, what are you going to do about it? How will you survive? How will the world change when the dead begin to rise?

Bram Stoker-award-winning author Christopher Golden has assembled an original anthology of zombie stories from an eclectic array of today’s most popular horror, fantasy, thriller and literary writers. Inside are tales about military might in the wake of an outbreak, survival in a wasteland, the ardor of falling in love with a zombie, and a family outing at the circus. Here is a collection of new views on death and resurrection.

With stories from Joe Hill, John Connolly, Max Brooks, Kelley Armstrong and many others, this is a wildly diverse and entertaining collection – the Last Word on the undead.

The Giant Book Of Fantasy & The Supernatural

Stephen Jones & David Sutton  (eds) –  The Giant Book Of Fantasy & The Supernatural (Parragon, 1996: originally Tiger Books 1994 as The Anthology Of Fantasy & The Supernatural)

Stephen Jones & David Sutton  – Introduction: A Bazaar of the Bizarre

Tad Williams – Child of an Ancient City
Thomas F. Monteleone  – The Cutty Black Sow
Adrian Cole – Treason in Zagadar
Nancy Holder  – Fatal Age
Ramsey Campbell  – The Mouths of Light
David J. Schow  – [scribble]
Brian M. Stableford  – The Storyteller’s Tale
Nicholas Royle  – The Big Game
Alex Stewart  – The Cat in the Wall
Anne Goring – The Shadow Queen
Brian Mooney  – The Waldteufel Affair
Parke Godwin – Up Yours, Federico
Andrew Darlington – Foul Moon Over Sticklespine Lane
Mike Chandler  – The Star Weave of Snorgrud Sunbreath
Melanie Tem  – Pele
William Thomas Webb  – Alchemist’s Gold
Allen Ashley  – The Horror Writer
Laurence Staig – The Healing Game
Josepha Sherman  – The Love-Gift
David Riley – A New Lease
H. J. Cording  – A Fly on the Wall
William F. Nolan – At Diamond Lake
Randall D. Larson – Satan Claws
Dallas Clive Goffin – The Maiden & the Minstrel
Jean-Daniel Brèque – Sight Unseen (Droit de Regard).
David Andreas – The Malspar Sigil
Steve Green  – Cracking
Steve Rasnic Tem – Angel Combs
S. M. Stirling – The Waters of Knowing
Charles Wagner – Just a Visitor at Twilight
Joel Lane – And Make Me Whole
Darrell Schweitzer & John Gregory Betancourt- The Last Child of Masferigon
Samantha Lee  – Silent Scream
Garry Kilworth  – Store Wars
Earl Godwin – Daddy
Adam Nichols – The Dark Fantastic
Michael Marshall Smith  – The View
C. Bruce Hunter  – The Salesman and the Travelling Farmer’s Daughter
Peter Dennis Pautz – And the Spirit That Stands by the Naked Man

illustrations by Allen Koszowski,  Dave Carson, Randy Broeker, Alan Hunter, Dallas Goffin, Harry O. Morris, Russ Nicholson, Russell Morgan, Jim Pitts, Mark Dunn, Charles Dougherty, Martin McKenna, John Stewart, Alfred R. Klosterman.

It’s not unlikely the original stories were intended for Fantasy Tales before it went to the wall. As a non-fantasy man i’m not sure i will ever be able to get along with something called The Star Weave of Snorgrud Sunbreath but delighted to find stories i’ve not previously read from Michael Marshall Smith, David Riley, Brian Mooney and Ramsey Campbell among others.

see also the Giant Book Of Fantasy & The Supernatural thread on the Vault forum.