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Book of the Dead

Glen Vasey, Les Daniels, Douglas E. Winter, Steven R. Boyett, Nicholas Royle, Joe R. Lansdale, Brian Hodge, David J. Schow, Robert R. McCammon, Chan McConnell, Richard Laymon, Ramsey Campbell, Stephen King, Philip Nutman, Edward Bryant · back to the book

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The Living Dead

Joe Hill, George R.R. Martin, Clive Barker, Neil Gaiman, Laurell K. Hamilton, Joe R. Lansdale, Poppy Z. Brite, Harlan Ellison, Kelly Link, Stephen King, Douglas E. Winter, David Barr Kirtley, Dan Simmons, Dale Bailey, Sherman Alexie, David J. Schow, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Michael Swanwick, Darrell Sch · 487 pages

Contains: This year's class picture / Dan Simmons -- Some zombie contingency plans / Kelly Link -- Death and suffrage / Dale Bailey -- Ghost dance / Sherman Alexie -- Blossom / David J. Schow -- The third dead body / Nina Kiriki Hoffman -- The dead / Michael Swanwick -- The dead kid / Darrell Schweitzer -- Malthusian's zombie / Jeffrey Ford -- Beautiful stuff / Susan Palwick -- Sex, dea

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The Living Dead 2

Robert Kirkman, Steven Barnes, Tananarive Due, Paula R. Stiles, Adam-Troy Castro, Karina Sumner-Smith, Matt London, Marc Paoletti, Molly Brown, Seth Lindberg, Walter Greatshell, Jamie Lackey, David J. Schow, David Wellington, Brian Keene, Amelia Beamer, Steven Popkes, David Barr Kirtley, Brenna Yova · 518 pages

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Skeleton crew

Stephen King · 573 pages

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Love in Vein: Twenty Original Tales of Vampiric Erotica

Kathe Koja, Barry N. Malzberg, Steve Rasnic Tem, Melaine Tem, Norman Partridge, W.H. Pugmire, Brian Hodge, Mike Baker, A.R. Morlan, Danielle Willis, Robert Devereaux, Thomas F. Monteleone, Wayne Allen Sallee, Gene Wolfe · 405 pages

Twenty stories of vampiric erotica, or more precisely depravity with sex prominently featured. People are skinned alive and a pair of women make love to a man until he dies. Edited by the author of Drawing Blood.

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The New Dead: A Zombie Anthology

Jonathan Maberry · 384 pages

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Zombies: Encounters with the Hungry Dead

Stephen King, Poppy Z. Brite, David J. Schow, Jack Ketchum, Neil Gaiman, Max Brooks, S.G. Browne, Ray Bradbury, Robert R. McCammon, Joe R. Lansdale, Carlton Mellick III, Cody Goodfellow · 699 pages

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The Undead: Zombie Anthology

David Wellington, Russell Calhoun, David Moody, Eric S. Brown, Derek Gunn, Meghan Jurado, E.W. Norton, Eric Pape, David Dunwoody, Brent Zirnheld, Kevin L. Donihe, Rob Morganbesser, Vince Churchill, Mike Watt, Eric Shapiro, C.M. Shevlin, James Reilly, John Hubbard, Cavan Scott, Pasquale J. Morrone, A · 260 pages

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Books of Blood, Volumes 4-6

Clive Barker · 480 pages

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Haunted

Chuck Palahniuk · 416 pages

Twenty-three stories chronicle the experiences of people who have answered an ad for an artist's retreat, believing that they will find a peaceful refuge, only to find themselves isolated and trapped in a cavernous old theater.

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Zombies: The Recent Dead

Steve Duffy, Max Brooks, Nik Houser, Andy Duncan, David J. Schow, Joe R. Lansdale, Neil Gaiman, Alice Sola Kim, Gary A. Braunbeck, Francesca Lia Block, Tobias S. Buckell, David Wellington, Tim Waggoner, Kit Reed, Brian Keene, Kelly Link, Gary McMahon, Scott Edelman, Kevin Veale, Michael Marshall Smi · 415 pages

"The living dead are more alive than ever! Zombies have become more than an iconic monster for the twenty-first century: they are now a phenomenon constantly revealing as much about ourselves--and our fascination with death, resurrection, and survival--as our love the supernatural or post-apocalyptic speculation. Our most imaginative literary minds have been devoured by these incredible creatures

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The Rising

Brian Keene · 330 pages

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Fiend

Peter Stenson · 295 pages

When Chase sees the little girl in umbrella socks savaging the Rottweiler, he's not too concerned. As someone who's been smoking meth every day for as long as he can remember, he's no stranger to such horrifying, drug-fuelled hallucinations. But, as he and his fellow junkies discover, the little girl is no illusion. The end of the world really has arrived. And with Chase's life already destroyed b

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Zom-B Baby

Darren Shan · 160 pages

"Grateful for the company of The Angels, B nevertheless questions their mission to eradicate the living dead from the face of the earth, and encounters a horror beyond imagining"--

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Burnt Tongues

Amanda Gowin, Matt Egan, Fred Venturini, Brandon Tietz, Adam Skorupskas, Bryan Howie, Brien Piechos, Jason M. Fylan, Terence James Eeles, Keith Buie, Gus Moreno, Daniel W. Broallt, Neil Krolicki, Chris Lewis Carter, Tony Liebhard, Michael De Vito, Jr., Phil Jourdan, Richard Lemmer, Tyler Jones, Gayl · 329 pages

A collection of short stories from the transgressive fiction genre feature tales about taboo subjects from the horrific to the humorous with shocking imagery not soon forgotten.

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Zombies Vs. Unicorns

Alaya Dawn Johnson, Maureen Johnson, Carrie Ryan, Scott Westerfeld, Meg Cabot, Garth Nix, Kathleen Duey, Margo Lanagan, Naomi Novik, Diana Peterfreund, Libba Bray, Cassandra Clare · 432 pages

It's a question as old as time itself: which is better, the zombie or the unicorn? In this anthology, edited by Holly Black and Justine Larbalestier (unicorn and zombie, respectively), strong arguments are made for both sides in the form of short stories. Half of the stories portray the strengths--for good and evil--of unicorns and half show the good (and really, really bad-ass) side of zombies. C

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Red Harvest

Joe Schreiber · 320 pages

Unlike those other Jedi sidelined to the Agricultural Corps, Hestizo Trace possesses one extraordinary Force talent: a gift with plants. Suddenly her quiet existence among greenhouse and garden specimens is violently destroyed by the arrival of an emissary from Darth Scabrous who seeks the final ingredient in an ancient Sith formula that promises to grant Darth Scabrous his greatest desire: immort

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The Walking Dead, Compendium 2

Robert Kirkman, Charlie Adlard · 1,068 pages

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The Walking Dead, Compendium 1

Robert Kirkman · 1,088 pages

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I, Zombie

Hugh Howey

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Zombies! Zombies! Zombies!

Otto Penzler, W. B. Seabrook, David A. Riley · 810 pages

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Prime Evil: New Stories by the Masters of Modern Horror

Douglas E. Winter · 380 pages

[Night flier / Stephen King][1] -- Having a woman at lunch / Paul Hazel -- Blood kiss / Dennis Etchison -- Coming to grief / Clive Barker -- Food / Thomas Tessier -- Great God Pan / M. John Harrison -- Orange is for anguish, blue for insanity / David Morrell -- Juniper tree / Peter Straub -- Spinning tales with the dead / Charles L. Grant -- Alice's last adventure / Thomas Ligott

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Marvel Zombies: Dead Days

Robert Kirkman, Mark Millar, Reginald Hudlin

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Brain Cheese Buffet

Edward Lee · 179 pages

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