{"product_id":"zombies-zombies-zombies-isbn-9780307740892","title":"Zombies! Zombies! Zombies!","description":"\u003ci\u003eZombies! Zombies! Zombies!\u003c\/i\u003e is the darkest, the living-deadliest, scariest--and dare we say most tasteful--collection of zombie stories ever assembled. It’s so good, it's a no-brainer.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThere is never a dull moment in the world of zombies. They are superstars of horror and they are everywhere, storming the world of print and visual media. Their endless march will never be stopped. It's the Zombie Zeitgeist! Now, with his wide sweep of knowledge and keen eye for great storytelling, Otto Penzler offers a remarkable catalog of zombie literature. Including unstoppable tales from world-renowned authors like Stephen King, Joe R. Lansdale, Robert McCammon, Robert E. Howard, and Richard Matheson to the writer who started it all, W.B. Seabrook, \u003ci\u003eZombies! Zombies! Zombies!\u003c\/i\u003e will delight and devour horror fans from coast to coast.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eFeaturing: \u003cbr\u003e   • Deadly bites\u003cbr\u003e   • Satanic Pigeons\u003cbr\u003e   • A parade of corpses \u003cbr\u003e   • Zombies, zombies, and more zombies\u003cb\u003eOtto Penzler: \u003c\/b\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eW. B. Seabrook: \u003c\/b\u003eDead Men Working in the Cane Fields \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid A. Riley: \u003c\/b\u003eAfter Nightfall \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHugh B. Cave: \u003c\/b\u003eMission to Margal \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChet Williamson: \u003c\/b\u003eThe Cairnwell Horror \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eArthur Leo Zagat: \u003c\/b\u003eCrawling Madness \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLisa Tuttle: \u003c\/b\u003eTreading the Maze \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKaren Haber: \u003c\/b\u003eRed Angels \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Marshall Smith: \u003c\/b\u003eLater \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eVivian Meik: \u003c\/b\u003eWhite Zombie \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGuy de Maupassant: \u003c\/b\u003eWas It a Dream? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSteve Rasnic Tem: \u003c\/b\u003eBodies and Heads \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDale Bailey: \u003c\/b\u003eDeath and Suffrage \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHenry Kuttner: \u003c\/b\u003eThe Graveyard Rats \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdgar Allan Poe: \u003c\/b\u003eThe Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eYvonne Navarro: \u003c\/b\u003eFeeding the Dead Inside \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCharles Birkin: \u003c\/b\u003eBallet Nègre \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeoffrey A. Landis: \u003c\/b\u003eDead Right \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGraham Masterton: \u003c\/b\u003eThe Taking of Mr. Bill \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJack D’Arcy: \u003c\/b\u003eThe Grave Gives Up \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eH. P. Lovecraft: \u003c\/b\u003eHerbert West–Reanimator \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eH. P. Lovecraft: \u003c\/b\u003ePickman’s Model \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Bloch: \u003c\/b\u003eMaternal Instinct \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKevin J. Anderson: \u003c\/b\u003eBringing the Family \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard Laymon: \u003c\/b\u003eMess Hall \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSheridan Le Fanu: \u003c\/b\u003eSchalken the Painter \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThorp McClusky: \u003c\/b\u003eWhile Zombies Walked \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMary A. Turzillo: \u003c\/b\u003eApril Flowers, November Harvest \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMort Castle: \u003c\/b\u003eThe Old Man and the Dead \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHenry S. Whitehead: \u003c\/b\u003eJumbee \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Tremayne: \u003c\/b\u003eMarbh Bheo \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThomas Burke: \u003c\/b\u003eThe Hollow Man \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnthony Boucher: \u003c\/b\u003eThey Bite \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGahan Wilson: \u003c\/b\u003eCome One, Come All \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRamsey Campbell: \u003c\/b\u003eIt Helps If You Sing \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eR. Chetwynd-Hayes: \u003c\/b\u003eThe Ghouls \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeabury Quinn: \u003c\/b\u003eThe Corpse-Master \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eF. Marion Crawford: \u003c\/b\u003eThe Upper Berth \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRalston Shields: \u003c\/b\u003eVengeance of the Living Dead \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHarlan Ellison and Robert Silverberg: \u003c\/b\u003eThe Song the Zombie Sang \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn H. Knox: \u003c\/b\u003eMen without Blood \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eUel Key: \u003c\/b\u003eThe Broken Fang \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTheodore Sturgeon: \u003c\/b\u003eIt \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDay Keene: \u003c\/b\u003eLeague of the Grateful Dead \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGarry Kilworth: \u003c\/b\u003eLove Child \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdith and Ejler Jacobson: \u003c\/b\u003eCorpses on Parade \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard and Christian Matheson: \u003c\/b\u003eWhere There’s a Will \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Swanwick: \u003c\/b\u003eThe Dead \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eManly Wade Wellman: \u003c\/b\u003eSong of the Slaves \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eH. P. Lovecraft: \u003c\/b\u003eThe Outsider \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert McCammon: \u003c\/b\u003eEat Me \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoe R. Lansdale: \u003c\/b\u003eDeadman’s Road \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert E. Howard: \u003c\/b\u003ePigeons from Hell \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eScott Edelman: \u003c\/b\u003eLive People Don’t Understand \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAugust Derleth and Mark Schorer: \u003c\/b\u003eThe House in the Magnolias \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eStephen King: \u003c\/b\u003eHome Delivery \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eArthur J. Burks: \u003c\/b\u003eDance of the Damned \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTheodore Roscoe: \u003c\/b\u003eZ Is for Zombie\"Rollicking . . . Over-the-top . . . Hard to resist.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“We would do well to page through a wonderfully thorough new anthology of short fiction called, straightforwardly enough, \u003ci\u003eZombies! Zombies! Zombies!\u003c\/i\u003e . . . Showcas[es] countless terrific writers, known and unknown. . . . If you like your zombies with a dose of literary erudition and horror fiction with character, intelligence, and atmosphere, be [sure to] pick this one up.” —\u003ci\u003eSF Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“\u003c\/i\u003ePresents a . . . nuanced portrayal of death brought to life—one to which Gen Xers, Gen Yers and others probably haven't been previously exposed. . . . high on drama, tension and a feeling of the macabre. . . . I’d say it’s a no-brainer.” —Mike Householder, \u003ci\u003eAssociated Press\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Splendid. . . . A full dance card of undead heavy hitters that range from the timeless (Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Richard Matheson) to the timely (Scott Edelman, Joe R. Lansdale, Dale Bailey).. . . . Zombie aficionados will eagerly embrace this controversial and comprehensive collection.” —\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003eOtto Penzler lives in New York City.Introduction\u003cbr\u003eby Otto Penzler\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eZOMBIES 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eW. B. Seabrook, in his 1929 book, \u003ci\u003eThe Magic Island\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf zombie literature began with the reportage of Seabrook, it had powerful ancestral works on which to draw. Stories of the living dead, or ghouls, or reanimated people, have existed since the \u003ci\u003eArabian Nights \u003c\/i\u003etales and borrowed from other horror story motifs, from the lurching reanimated monster of Mary Shelley’s \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/i\u003e to the undead vampires of John Polidori’s \u003ci\u003eThe Vampyre\u003c\/i\u003e and Bram Stoker’s \u003ci\u003eDracula\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeveral of the most distinguished short-story writers of the nineteenth century turned to figures who had been dead but then, uh-oh, were alive. Edgar Allan Poe was almost relentless in his use of the dead coming back to life, most famously in “The Fall of the House of Usher” but most vividly in his contribution to this volume, “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar.” Guy de Maupassant’s poignant “Was It a Dream?” lingers in the memory as an example of how a corpse leaving a grave can destroy the living without a single act or thought of violence. Ambrose Bierce’s famous “The Death of Halpin Frayser” may be interpreted as a ghost story, a vampire story, or a zombie story, and is equally terrifying as any of them; it is not included in this volume because I selected it for inclusion in \u003ci\u003eThe Vampire Archives\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow a staple of horror fiction, zombies, as we know them today, have a very short history. Tales of resurrected corpses and ghouls were popular in the weird menace pulps of the 1930s, but these old-fashioned zombies had no taste for human flesh. For that, we can thank George Romero, whose 1968 film \u003ci\u003eNight of the Living Dead\u003c\/i\u003e introduced this element to these undead critters. Writers, being writers, took to this notion as a more extreme depiction of reanimation and have apparently made every effort to outdo one another in the degree of violence and gore they could bring to the literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile this incursion into the realm of splatterpunk may be welcomed by many readers, I have attempted to maintain some balance in this collection and have omitted some pretty good stories that, in my view, slipped into an almost pornographic sensibility of the need to drench every page with buckets of blood and descriptions of mindless cruelty, torture, and violence. Of course, zombies are mindless, so perhaps this behavior is predictable, but so are many of the stories, and I have opted to include a wider range of fiction. While the characters in early stories are not called zombies, they are the living dead (or, occasionally, apparently so), and they qualify for inclusion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInevitably, some of the most popular writers and their best stories will have been collected in other anthologies, so will seem familiar. For a definitive collection like this one, I wanted them to be included, so if you’ve already read the stories by H. P. Lovecraft, Poe, and Stephen King, skip them if you must, though they became popular because they are really good and bear rereading. On the other hand, you will find in these pages some stories that you’ve never read by authors of whom you’ve never heard, and you are in for a treat.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo cover the broad spectrum and significant history of zombie literature required a good bit of research, and I am indebted to the welcome and needed assistance of numerous experts in the genre, most notably John Pelan, Robert Weinberg, John Knott, Chris Roden, Joel Frieman, Michele Slung, and Gardner Dozois.","brand":"Vintage Crime\/Black Lizard","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300151546085,"sku":"NP9780307740892","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780307740892.jpg?v=1767744890","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/zombies-zombies-zombies-isbn-9780307740892","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}