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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 · back to the book

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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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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 · 362 pages

Blossom / Chan McConnell -- Mess hall / Richard Laymon -- It helps if you sing / Ramsey Campbell -- [Home delivery / Stephen King][1] -- Wet work / Philip Nutman -- A sad last love at the diner of the damned / Edward Bryant -- Bodies and heads / Steve Rasnic Tem -- Choices / Glen vasey -- The good parts / Les Daniels -- Less than zombie / Douglas E. Winter -- Like Pavlov's dogs

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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 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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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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Zombie Apocalypse!

Pat Cadigan, Paul McAuley, Robert Hood, Michael Marshall Smith, Tim Lebbon, Christopher Fowler, Paul Finch, Sarah Pinborough, John Llewellyn Probert, Kim Newman, Lisa Morton, Scott Edelman, Peter Crowther, Peter Atkins, Tanith Lee

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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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Zombies! Zombies! Zombies!

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

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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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The Mammoth Book of Zombies

Clive Barker, Ramsey Campbell, Manly Wade Wellman, Dennis Etchison, H.P. Lovecraft, Brian Lumley, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Blotch, Joe R. Lansdale, R. Chetwynd-Hayes, Karl Edward Wagner, Charles L. Grant, Basil Copper, M.R. James, Nicholas Royle, Lisa Tuttle, David Riley, Graham Masterton, J. Sherida · 512 pages

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Skeleton crew

Stephen King · 573 pages

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As The World Dies: Untold Tales Volume 2

Rhiannon Frater · 179 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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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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Dark Love

John Lutz, David J. Schow, Robert E. Weinberg, Richard Laymon, Bob Burden, George C. Chesbro, John Peyton, Kathryn Ptacek, John Shirley, Michael Blumlein, Ed Gorman, Lucy Taylor, Karl Edward Wagner, Douglas E. Winter, Michael O'Donoghue, Kathe Koja, Basil Copper · 408 pages

Contains: [Lunch at the Gotham Café](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19781075W/Lunch_at_the_Gotham_Cafe) / Stephen King -- The psycho / Michael O'Donoghue -- Pas de Deux / Kathe Koja -- Bright blades gleaming / Basil Copper -- Hanson's radio / John Lutz -- Refrigerator heaven / David J. Schow -- Ro Erg / Robert Weinberg -- Going under / Ramsey Campbell -- Hidden / Stuart Kamins

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Descent

Jay Bonansinga · 276 pages

Out of the ashes of its dark past, Woodbury, Georgia, becomes an oasis of safety amidst the plague of the walking dead -- a town reborn in the wake of its former tyrannical leader, Philip Blake, aka The Governor. Blake's legacy of madness haunts every nook and cranny of this little walled community, but Lilly Caul and a small ragtag band of survivors are determined to overcome their traumatic past

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Dying to Live

Kim Paffenroth · 216 pages

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Monster Planet

David Wellington · 302 pages

Set twelve years after the shambling zombie masses have overrun Manhattan, America, and the world, Monster Planet is the mind-blowing conclusion to what must be the scariest trilogy ever. Oceans of blood, scattered limbs, wanton violence, and general mayhem abound, along with revivified mummies, a Welsh sorcerer, and Wellington's signature brand of cool high-tech weaponry and sly humor — zombies,

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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

Max Brooks · 352 pages

“The end was near.” —Voices from the Zombie War The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to th

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Flesh Eaters

Joe McKinney · 389 pages

They rise-- Out of the flooded streets of Houston, they emerge from plague-ridden waters. Dead. Rotting. Hungry. And as human survivors scramble to their rooftops for safety, the zombie hordes circle like sharks. The ultimate killing machines. They feed-- Houston is quarantined to halt the spread of the zombie plague. Anyone trying to escape is shot on sight, living and dead. Emergency Ops sergean

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Crossed, Vol. 4: Badlands

Garth Ennis, Jamie Delano · 240 pages

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