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When I first picked up this book, I expected to encounter a rash of stories about heroic survivors of a zombie apocalypse bravely blowing the heads off of everything they see (which, admittedly, is fun in its own way). I was pleasantly surprised to find that this is true of none of these stories. They are far more complex and creative than the video-game horror stories found elsewhere (World War Z) and many stand alone as great stories(even outside the zombie genre, whatever that entails).One st...
Well....like a lot of short story collections, tons of junk and a few gems sprinkled in to keep you interested. There were three or four that redeemed this and almost makes me want to give three or four stars, but really (like most of the zombie genre) too much bad writing. Schoolteacher story was amazing though, so won't sell this back just because of that one.
*Spolier warning* The subject matter of this collection of short stories is, of course, zombies. Zombies of all flavors. From Romero-style "hungry dead," to the classic Haitian voodoo , to metaphorical zombies (such as couch-potatoes and mindless consumers). As far as anthologies go, I was pleasantly surprised. Some of the writing was bad, most was good, and some was very, very good. In particular, "Some Zombie Contingency Plans" by Kelly Link, "Bobby Conroy Comes Back from the Dead" by Joe Hill...
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) e...
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 th...
This is not a collection of Zombie short stories. No, this is a brilliant collection of short stories that happen to be about Zombies. Trust me - there's a difference.You'll find very few cliches here, very few pieces of bad writing, very few "filler" stories. You will find some of the best speculative fiction writers currently out there today contributing fascinating works concerning the human condition and our preoccupation with the mysteries of death. And while Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, Popp...
Rather than write about all 34 stories in this collection, I’ll 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 zomb...
I bought this anthology from the bargain bin for two stories: so thus far I've only read the Stephen King story 'Home Delivery," and I realized that I've already read the Joe Hill story "Bobby Conroy Comes Back From the Dead" since it was previously collected in Hill's book "20th Century Ghosts." I'm planning on reading the rest of the stories in October when there is a chill in the air and it is easier to get into the spirit of "brains dribbling across the tile like spoiled oatmeal, brains that...
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 o...
