John Joseph Adams
Paperback | Pages: 504 pages Rating: 3.84 | 8911 Users | 362 Reviews
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| Original Title: | The Living Dead (The Living Dead, #1) |
| ISBN: | 1597801437 (ISBN13: 9781597801430) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.johnjosephadams.com/the-living-dead/ |
| Series: | The Living Dead #1, Skull-Faced #1 |
| Literary Awards: | World Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Anthology (2009) |
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Ideal for fans of iZombie, Colin Morgan, The Walking Dead, iZombie comics, Resident Evil anthology, Evil Dead anthology, and the Joe Hill graphic novel collectionA compilation of the best zombie literature of the past 30 years
Highlights works by today’s most well-known and respected authors of speculative fiction, horror, and fantasy
Zombies have invaded popular culture, from White Zombie to Dawn of the Dead and from Resident Evil to World War Z. They have become the monsters that best express the anxieties and fears of the modern west. This collection gathers together zombie works by Stephen King, Harlan Ellison, Robert Silverberg, George R. R. Martin, Clive Barker, Neil Gaiman, Joe Hill, Poppy Z. Brite, Laurell K. Hamilton, and Joe R. Lansdale. These brilliant minds, and The Living Dead, cover the many types of zombie fiction.
Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors.
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| Title | : | The Living Dead (The Living Dead #1) |
| Author | : | John Joseph Adams |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 504 pages |
| Published | : | September 1st 2008 by Night Shade |
| Categories | : | Horror. Zombies. Short Stories. Fiction. Anthologies. Fantasy. Science Fiction |
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I love this time of year. October is coming and a girl's fancy turns to the undead. Or at least this girl's does and in the idea of zombies (or vampires that ash out in sunlight rather than sparkle like lip-gloss from Bonnie Bell.)So, what does that mean? It's time to brush off the zombie collections and novels (the few that I have thanks to being fussy) and prepare for Halloween spookiness where I will, no doubt, freak myself out as I've rediscovered all the gore and whatnot that didn't botherI'm not sure when it happened, but at some point a very large portion of the horror fiction writer community decided that to write a good zombie story, some person in the story needs to have sex with a zombie. Or a zombie has to have sex with a person. Or the zombies need to have sex with each other.About 1/3 of the way through this book I was starting to roll my eyes and say to myself, "Oh god, not ANOTHER person getting it on with a walking corpse..."This phenomena is present in about 60-70%
There are some amazing stories in here, and a few that, to be honest, I didn't much care for. First off, don't go in to this expecting every story to be a standard zombie tale. Don't go in expecting everything to be scary, either. Go in to this expecting a very, very wide spectrum of tales, and an equally wide definition of what it means to be living dead. In some stories you do see classic zombies (the very first is a good example), or are only mild departures from the classic, devastating
Well I decided to read these stories as they were on my kindle. I bought them for my daughter who hadnt read them and now has her own kindle so is unlikely to. So I felt I should read them.What a surprise I got as it turns out I enjoy zombie stories. Who knew??? 🤷♀As in most short story collections some stories are better than others but they are all very readable and interesting. A good read and page turner.
Better than most anthologies....The problems with anthologies is, by telling time you finish that, you have trouble remembering all the bloody stories. And this is no different, save for the quality of stories, which was better than average, and the nicely done introductions for the authors, a bit of background on them and the tale. With authors like George R.R.Martin, Laurell Hamilton, Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, and Clive Barker, it's hard to miss. There are some nice variations here,
Well I decided to read these stories as they were on my kindle. I bought them for my daughter who hadnt read them and now has her own kindle so is unlikely to. So I felt I should read them.What a surprise I got as it turns out I enjoy zombie stories. Who knew??? 🤷♀As in most short story collections some stories are better than others but they are all very readable and interesting. A good read and page turner.
When I first picked up this book, I expected to encounter a rash of stories about heroic survivors of a zombie apocalypse bravely blowing the heads off of everything they see (which, admittedly, is fun in its own way). I was pleasantly surprised to find that this is true of none of these stories. They are far more complex and creative than the video-game horror stories found elsewhere (World War Z) and many stand alone as great stories(even outside the zombie genre, whatever that entails).One
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