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    The Living Dead

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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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNight Shade Books
    Release dateSep 1, 2008
    ISBN9781597802406
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    • 5/5
      An excellent mix of pure zombie chew-em-up stories and more cerebral fare; of particular interest were the stories in which the titular horrors were only tangentially addressed - especially the romantic story set on the set of George Romero's "Night of the Living Dead".
    • 4/5
      Really enjoyable anthology that delivered on zombies of all zombie-walks. As with all anthologies, there were a few misses but overall this was a great anthology and I came out of this with a few favourites:

      "This Year's Class Picture" - the first story of the anthology is a great set-up. A teacher continues her life's work even after the world goes to Hell.

      "The Dead Kid" - A heart-breaking little story about a child zombie that stuck with me for a week.

      "Prairie" - Short, believable, and gruesome.

      "Home Delivery" - Stephen King's story combines my penchant for his Little Tall Island as a setting and also a female protagonist.

      "Deadman's Road" - This old west story was just plain chilling. Compact cast of characters, backstory that evokes disgust for the zombie even before we meet him. I'm sorry that the author's "Dead In The West" isn't more widely available.

      "Followed" - Original. I don't particularly enjoy stories in which the monster is implicitly a symbol for some human flaw, but the zombie taking the place of our conscience is effective.
    • 5/5
      Took a few days, but i loved every story it contained. There are definitely some strange tales inside, with unique plots. Must-read for a zombie fan!
    • 3/5
      Ordinarily, this book would have gotten only two stars because of the ratio of stories that made me glad I'd bought the book to stories I hated or stories which I won't remember in a week.

      The first story in the book, Dan Simmons's This Year's Class Picture set the bar high. It's got your basic McGuyver-like adaptations to a broken society, high-tension moments and of course a zombie battle, but it's also got pathos and a bittersweet, heartstring-tugging ending.

      In Death and Suffrage, Dale Bailey gives us one look at politics and the dead, and in Beautiful Stuff, Susan Palwick has a different take on the same subject. Both stories are evocative and moving.

      Lisa Morton's Sparks Fly Upward has a heroine in a heart-rending situation who nevertheless gets a measure of revenge that a lot of readers might have wanted.

      Catherine Cheek's She's Taking Her Tits to the Grave is an artful combination of gore, black humor and pathos.

      And it should come as no surprise that The Last Song the Zombie Sang is brilliant in language, character and development, considering that it was written by Harlan Ellison and Roger Zelazny.

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    • 3/5
      I was rather looking forward to this anthology given that I have 2 other anthologies compiled by John Joseph Jackson, Wastelands and Brave New Worlds and absolutely adored both of those. This one, while it was okay, did not similarly blow my socks off. That may be in part because I have never been all that enamored with the zombie genre. It's only been with it's recent resurgence that I've been giving it another try. So, while it may be an awesome selection of short stories in the genre and I just don't "get it", I think it's more likely the genre simply hasn't had the time to develop the larger selection of classics that the post-apocalyptic and dystopian genres have developed.
    • 4/5
      For the most part the stories are an excellent read. There are a few that I found disturbing but over 90% of the book is extremely readable. Well worht the purchase
    • 2/5
      I had high hopes for this anthology, but I must admit that this book did not even come close to meeting my expectations. Many of the stories I found to be contrived and "faux-edgy" (zombie sex, much?). There were a few stories that I actually enjoyed and wanted to reread, such as "Almost The Last Story By Almost The Last Man - Scott Edelman", "Home Delivery - Stephen King", and the one about zombie abortion activists (sorry, the name escapes me).These stories were well-written and contained a human element that were lacking in the other stories. Truthfully, I found to be mediocre at best, and poorly-written, dull, and absurd at worst. Get this book out of the library; don't purchase it!
    • 4/5
      Some excellent stories - a couple out of place stories with little connection with zombies in anything but theory, and a couple of sour notes - all in all a solid collection.
    • 4/5
      I was pleasantly surprised to find that The Living Dead was not exclusively comprised of the usual zombie apocalypse type of stories. That isn't to say that they aren't there--they are, and they're quite good--but it's a nice change of pace to see how writers can use the undead element in a different way.There's an unfortunate cost to this variety, however. There were a couple of stories, namely Kelly Link's Some Zombie Contingency Plans and Joe Hill's Bobby Conroy Comes Back From The Dead, where the zombies seemed a bit too... incidental. Decent stories, but not what I was hoping for. Still, though, 2 out of 30+ isn't a bad miss rate.I would have loved to have seen more stories with voodoo-style zombies, which appeared in Neil Gaiman's Bitter Grounds and Andy Duncan's Zora and The Zombie.
    • 4/5
      This anthology was a bit uneven for me: some of the stories were just AMAZING, but quite a few....*sigh*. Let's just say I read them to get it over with so I could go on to something else. Personally, my favorite story in this collection by far was "This Year's Class Picture", by the always fabulous Dan Simmons. Granted, it may appeal to me more than you, unless you too are a.) a teaher b.) a zombie fanatic c.) slightly disillusioned with the job and/or d.) have ever considered the laudable defense capabilities of most elementary schools (specifically in the North East) built in this country. :)
    • 5/5
      This short story collection from indie publisher Night Shade Books gathers together 34 examples of the best of the zombie short story genre. And yes, it's a larger genre than you might think, and home to some very unexpected authors (Sherman Alexie, anyone?) as well as some very familiar to fans of horror (Joe R. Lansdale and, yes, Stephen King.) Although there's very little original work here, it's a treat to have a sampling from such diverse sources and spanning so many years collected under one cover. For anyone who just can't get enough zombie apocalypse in their lives, this is the book for you.