The Ultimate Undead

This work collects stories by biggest names in horror including Anne Rice, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Harlan Ellison, Robert Silverberg, Gene Wolfe, Kevin J. Anderson and others. Remakes of movies such as Dawn of the Dead and the AMC series The Walking Dead prove continued interest in the undead. This work features review mailings to horror websites and magazines. It celebrates the strange and unusual, some of the best-known authors of the fantastic and the horrific explore the myths and legends surrounding a creature both dead and the undead…the zombie! From Anne Rice’s chilling portrait of a woman more dead than alive to Chelsea Quinn Yarbro’s future where nobody dies forever, from Nina Kirki Hoffman’s powerful story of the dead returned for love to Gene Wolfe’s tale of computer—driven corpses—here are the spectacular zombie stories of the modern age!