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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)

The Living Dead (The Living Dead #1)

John Joseph Adams

Paperback | Pages: 504 pages

Rating: 3.84 | 8911 Users | 362 Reviews

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Title	:	The Living Dead (The Living Dead #1)
Author	:	John Joseph Adams
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special 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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Ideal for fans of iZombie, Colin Morgan, The Walking Dead, iZombie comics, Resident Evil anthology, Evil Dead anthology, and the Joe Hill graphic novel collection
A 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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Ill admit that zombies can be tiresome; not much personality, kind of slow, easily defeated on a one-to-one basis. Certain liberties must be taken with the mythos to make such creatures interesting over the course of 400+ pages, but Adams puts in just the right mix of classic monster mayhem and mythological experimentation to make the whole of The Living Dead an absolutely spectacular collection. There is everything a zombiphile could want; gore, satire; parody, gore, emotion, comedy, gore, sex,

I don't know what Imp of the Perverse caused me to pick The Living Dead as my next read. Does the death of a loved one plus surviving a natural disaster equal time to read Zombie fiction? Psychologists (armchair and otherwise) make of that what you will. This was an enjoyable anthology in any event. Let's name drop: there are stories here by Harlan Ellison and Robert Silverberg, George R R Martin, Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, Joe Hill, Clive Barker, Poppy Z Brite, Dan Simmons, Laurell K Hamilton,

Rather than write about all 34 stories in this collection, Ill write about my top five, in no particular order. * Followed by Will McIntosh is the best story in the collection. It supposes a world in which the dead rise and instead of attacking the living, they follow them. But the dead seek out and follow people who deserve it according to some sort of cosmic justice. The more exorbitant your lifestyle, the more zombies choose to follow you. * How the Day Runs Down by John Langan. A zombie

3.5 stars actually. It's so hard to rate a collection of stories from different authors because some were excellent, and some I couldn't even finish. Overall, the problem I had with a fair number of these short stories was that (and one author even points this out in an introduction to her story) it seems the authors are all trying to out sex-shock each other, if that makes sense. Like, "how wild and graphic and horrid and pointless can we make this sex scene?" And the authors that didn't have

This was a very satisfying read. I went in thinking I'd be reading all things zombie, when in point of fact the title of the collection suggests a wider meaning. This is borne out in the stories. Numerous aspects of the idea of a reanimated human is explored here, from science-fiction-focused works such as Michael Swanwick's "The Dead" and George R. R. Martin's "Meathouse Man," to those that reference Haitian vodou such as "Bitter Grounds by Neil Gaiman and "Zora and the Zombie" by Andy Duncan.

Rated 2 star based solely on the few stories I read by my preferred authors.None of these short stories were all that great to me. Each was mediocre at best.Sex, Death and Sunshine by Clive BarkerProbably the best of the short stories that I read. The man really knows how to compare theater to blow jobs.Those Who Seek Forgiveness by Laurell K. HamiltonA peek into Anita's every day job. Interesting, but you're not missing anything in the series if you don't read it.Bobby Conroy Comes Back from

A collection of zombie stories that truly does deliver more than what you'd expect. Zombie fans MUST check this book out, but what sets it apart is that there's enough here for other people as well."This Year's Class Picture" sets things up nicely, catching the reader off guard with it's ending and setting the stage for several different looks at the "life" of the undead. This is far more than stories of blood and gore, but many hinge on lost humanity (and even regained humanity in some cases)