Editor John Joseph Adams has posted the table of contents for his upcoming zombie anthology, The Living Dead:

  1. “This Year’s Class Picture” by Dan Simmons (1992)
  2. “Some Zombie Contingency Plans” by Kelly Link (2005)
  3. “Death and Suffrage” by Dale Bailey (2002)
  4. “Ghost Dance” by Sherman Alexie (2003)
  5. “Blossom” by David J. Schow (1989)
  6. “The Third Dead Body” by Nina Kiriki Hoffman (1993)
  7. “The Dead” by Michael Swanwick (1996)
  8. “The Dead Kid” by Darrell Schweitzer (2002)
  9. “Malthusian’s Zombie” by Jeffrey Ford (2000)
  10. “Beautiful Stuff” by Susan Palwick (2004)
  11. “Sex, Death and Starshine” by Clive Barker (1984)
  12. “Stockholm Syndrome” by David Tallerman (2007)
  13. “Bobby Conroy Comes Back From The Dead” by Joe Hill (2005)
  14. “Those Who Seek Forgiveness” by Laurell K. Hamilton (2006)
  15. “In Beauty, Like the Night” by Norman Partridge (1992)
  16. “Prairie” by Brian Evenson (1997)
  17. “Everything is Better with Zombies” by Hannah Wolf Bowen (2006)
  18. “Home Delivery” by Stephen King (1989)
  19. “Less than Zombie” by Douglas E. Winter (1989)
  20. “Sparks Fly Upward” by Lisa Morton (2006)
  21. “Meathouse Man” by George R. R. Martin (1976)
  22. “Deadman’s Road” by Joe Lansdale (2007)
  23. “The Skull-Faced Boy” by David Barr Kirtley (2002)
  24. “The Age of Sorrow” by Nancy Kilpatrick (2007)
  25. “Bitter Grounds” by Neil Gaiman (2003)
  26. “She’s Taking Her Tits to the Grave” by Catherine Cheek (2008)
  27. “Dead Like Me” by Adam-Troy Castro (2000)
  28. “Zora and the Zombie” by Andy Duncan (2004)
  29. “Calcutta, Lord of Nerves” by Poppy Z. Brite (1992)
  30. “Followed” by Will McIntosh (2006)
  31. “The Song the Zombie Sang” by Harlan Ellison & Robert Silverberg (1970)
  32. “Passion Play” by Nancy Holder (1992)
  33. “Almost the Last Story by Almost the Last Man” by Scott Edelman (2007)
  34. “How the Day Runs Down” by John Langan (2008)

That is a lot of zombie stories. (34 stories and more than 230,000 words.)

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