The Living Dead

My friends Jack Kincaid and Jeremy Tolbert, who both listened to me blather on about zombies and served as beta-readers for my writing contributions to the book. And, of course, for our continuing years of friendship. If I ever turn into a zombie, I'll eat you guys last.

My mom, for being my biggest cheerleader.

All of the other kindly folks who assisted me in some way during the editorial process: Mickey Choate, Douglas Cohen, Richard Curtis, Ellen Datlow, Paula Guran, Andy Hine, Betty Russo, Bill Schafer, Claire Sclater, Nancy Stauffer, Kari Torson, Jeff VanderMeer, Renee Zuckerbrot, everyone who dropped suggestions into my zombie fiction database, and any others I may have forgotten.

The readers and reviewers who loved my first anthology, Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse, making it possible for me to do another.

And last, but certainly not least: a big thanks to all of the authors who appear in this anthology.

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The Living Dead

Table of Contents

Introduction

by John Joseph Adams

Some Zombie Contingency Plans

by Kelly Link

Death And Suffrage

by Dale Bailey

Blossom

by David J. Schow

The Third Dead Body

by Nina Kiriki Hoffman

The Dead

by Michael Swanwick

The Dead Kid

by Darrell Schweitzer

Malthusian's Zombie

by Jeffrey Ford

Beautiful Stuff

by Susan Palwick

Sex, Death And Starshine

by Clive Barker

Stockholm Syndrome

by David Tallerman

Bobby Conroy Comes Back From the Dead

by Joe Hill

Those Who Seek

Forgiveness

by Laurell K. Hamilton

In Beauty, Like The Night

by Norman Partridge

Prairie

by Brian Evenson

Everything Is Better With Zombies

by Hannah Wolf Bowen

Home Delivery

by Stephen King

Sparks Fly Upward

by Lisa Morton

Meathouse Man

by George R. R. Martin

Deadman's Road

by Joe R. Lansdale

The Skull-Faced Boy

by David Barr Kirtley

The Age Of Sorrow

by Nancy Kilpatrick

Bitter Grounds

by Neil Gaiman

She's Taking Her Tits To The Grave

by Catherine Cheek

Dead Like Me

by Adam-Troy Castro

Zora And The Zombie

by Andy Duncan

Calcutta, Lord Of Nerves

by Poppy Z. Brite

Followed

by Will McIntosh

The Song The Zombie Sang

Passion Play

by Nancy Holder

Almost The Last Story By Almost The Last Man

by Scott Edelman

How The Day Runs Down

by John Langan

Acknowledgments