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"The most complete collection of zombie stories ever published."--Cover. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Otto Penzler -- Dead men working in the cane fields / W. B. Seabrook -- After nightfall / David A. Riley -- Mission to Margal / Hugh B. Cave -- The Cairnwell horror / Chet Williamson -- Crawling madness / Arthur Leo Zagat -- Treading the maze / Lisa Tuttle -- Red angels / Karen Haber -- Later / Michael Marshall Smith -- White Zombie / Vivian Meik -- Was it a dream? / Guy de Maupassant -- Bodies and heads / Steve Rasnic Tem -- Death and suffrage / Dale Bailey -- The Graveyard rats / Henry Kuttner -- The Facts in the case of M. Valdemar / Edgar Allen Poe -- Feeding the dead inside / Yvonne Navarro -- Ballet Negre / Charles Birkin -- Dead right / Geoffrey A. Landis -- The Taking of Mr. Bill / Graham Masterton -- The Grave gives up / Jack D'Arcy -- Herbert West-Reanimator / H.P. Lovecraft -- Pickman's model / H.P. Lovecraft. |
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Maternal instinct / Robert Bloch -- Bringing the family / Kevin J. Anderson -- Mess hall / Richard Laymon -- Schalken the painter / Sheridan Le Fanu -- While zombies walked / Thorp McClusky -- April flowers, November harvest / Mary A. Turzillo -- The Old man and the dead / Mort Castle -- Jumbee / Henry S. Whitehead -- Marbh bheo / Peter Tremayne -- The Hollow man / Thomas Burke -- They bite / Anthony Boucher -- Come one, come all / Gahan Wilson -- It helps if you sing / Ramsey Campbell -- The Ghouls / R. Chetwynd-Hayes -- The Corpse-Master / Seabury Quinn -- The Upper berth / F. Marion Crawford -- Vengeance of the living dead / Ralston Shields -- The Song the zombie sang / Harlan Ellison and Robert Silverberg -- Men without blood / John H. Knox -- The Broken fang / Uel Key -- It / Theodore Sturgeon -- League of the Grateful Dead / Day Keene -- Love child / Garry Kilworth -- Corpses on parade / Edith and Ejler Jacobson. |
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Where there's a will / Richard and Christian Matheson -- The Dead / Michael Swanwick -- The Song of the slaves / Manly Wade Wellman -- The Outsider / H.P. Lovecraft -- Eat me / Robert McCammon -- Deadman's road / Joe R. Lansdale -- Pigeons from hell / Robert E. Howard -- Live people don't understand / Scott Edelman -- The House in the Magnolias / August Derleth and Mark Schorer -- Home delivery / Stephen King -- Dance of the damned / Arthur J. Burks -- Z is for zombie / Theodore Roscoe. |
| Summary |
"Zombies ain't what they used to be. Not so long ago, they were safely ensconced on Haiti so the rest of the world could merely scoff at the bizarre myth of the living dead on one relatively small Caribbean island. Well, they have proliferated at an alarming rate, invading the rest of the world, and it seems unlikely that they have any intention of going away anytime soon. W.B. Seabrook, in his 1929 book, The Magic Island, recounted "true" tales of voodoo magic on Haiti bringing the recently dead back to life as slow-moving, virtually brain-dead creatures who would work tirelessly in the fields without pay and without complaint. These stories introduced the zombie to much of the world, though most national folklores have similar tales and legends. A decade after Seabrook's groundbreaking volume, Zora Neale Hurston researched Haitian folklore and told similar stories of eyewitness accounts of zombies, as have subsequent anthropologists, sociologists, and others not prone to imaginative fancies. If zombie literature began with the reportage of Seabrook, it had powerful ancestral works on which to draw"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Zombies -- Fiction.
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Zombiism -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Horror tales, American.
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Horror fiction.
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| Series |
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard original
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| Add'l Names |
Penzler, Otto.
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| ISBN |
9780307740892
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0307740897
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