Zombies: The Recent Dead

You can't kill the dead Like any good monster, the zombie has proven to be ever-evolving, monumentally mutable, and open to seemingly endless imaginative the thralls of voodoo sorcerers, George Romero's living dead, societal symbols, dancing thrillers, viral victims, reanimated ramblers, video gaming targets, post-apocalyptic permutations, shuffling sidekicks, literary mash-ups, the comedic, and, yes, even the romantic. Evidently, we have an enduring hunger for this infinite onslaught of the ever-hungry dead. Hoards of readers are now devouring zombie fiction faster than armies of the undead could chow down their brains. It's a sick job, but somebody had to do explore the innumerable necrotic nightmares of the latest, greatest, most fervent devotion in the history of humankind and ferret out the best of new millenial zombie The Recent Dead.

Contents
ix Preshamble (2010) essay by Paula Guran
xii The Meat of the Matter (2004) essay by David J. Schow
xxii Deaditorial Note (2010) essay by Paula Guran
29 Twisted (2009) novelette by Kevin Veale
54 The Things He Said (2007) shortstory by Michael Marshall Smith
64 Naming of Parts (2000) novella by Tim Lebbon
128 Dating Secrets of the Dead (2002) shortstory by David Prill
142 Lie Still, Sleep Becalmed (2007) shortstory by Steve Duffy
171 The Great A Story from the Zombie War (2007) shortstory by Max Brooks
178 First Kisses from Beyond the Grave (2006) novelette by Nik Houser
218 Zora and the Zombie (2004) novelette by Andy Duncan
239 Obsequy (2006) novelette by David J. Schow
267 Deadman's Road [Reverend Jedidiah Mercer] (2007) novelette by Joe R. Lansdale
293 Bitter Grounds (2003) novelette by Neil Gaiman
334 Glorietta (2009) shortfiction by Gary A. Braunbeck
334 Beautiful White Bodies (2009) novelette by Alice Sola Kim
342 Farewell, My Zombie (2009) shortfiction by Francesca Lia Block
354 Trinkets (2001) shortfiction by Tobias S. Buckell [as by Tobias Buckell ]
362 Dead Man's Land (2009) shortfiction by David Wellington
378 Disarmed and Dangerous (2009) novelette by Tim Waggoner
395 The Zombie Prince (2004) shortstory by Kit Reed
409 Three Scenes from the End of the World (2009) shortfiction by Brian Keene
420 The Hortlak (2003) novelette by Kelly Link
445 Dead to the World (2009) shortstory by Gary McMahon
458 The Last Supper (2003) shortstory by Scott Edelman