TOC: ‘The Living Dead 2’ edited by John Joseph Adams

This coming September, Night Shade Books releases the follow-up zombie anthology The Living Dead 2 edited by John Joseph Adams.

Whereas the first volume was reprint-heavy (only one story was original to that volume), Volume 2 features about 60% original stories, noted in bold in the following table of contents:

1. “Alone, Together” by Robert Kirkman
2. “Danger Word” by Steven Barnes & Tananarive Due
3. “Zombieville” by Paula Stiles
4. “The Anteroom” by Adam-Troy Castro
5. “When the Zombies Win” by Karina Sumner-Smith
6. “Mouja” by Matt London
7. “Category Five” by Marc Paoletti
8. “Living with the Dead” by Molly Brown
9. “Twenty-Three Snapshots of San Francisco” by Seth Lindberg
10. “The Mexican Bus” by Walter Greatshell
11. “The Other Side” by Jamie Lackey
12. “Where the Heart Was” by David J. Schow
13. “Good People” by David Wellington
14. “Lost Canyon of the Dead” by Brian Keene
15. “Pirates vs. Zombies” by Amelia Beamer
16. “The Crocodiles” by Steven Popkes
17. “The Skull-Faced City” by David Barr Kirtley
18. “Obedience” by Brenna Yovanoff
19. “Steve and Fred” by Max Brooks
20. “The Rapeworm” by Charlie Finlay
21. “Everglades” by Mira Grant
22. “We Now Pause For Station Identification” by Gary Braunbeck
23. “Reluctance” by Cherie Priest
24. “Arlene Schabowski Of The Undead” by Mark McLaughlin & Kyra M. Schon
25. “Zombie Gigolo” by S. G. Browne
26. “Rural Dead” by Bret Hammond
27. “The Summer Place” by Bob Fingerman
28. “The Wrong Grave” by Kelly Link
29. “The Human Race” by Scott Edelman
30. “Who We Used to Be” by David Moody
31. “Therapeutic Intervention” by Rory Harper
32. “He Said, Laughing” by Simon R. Green
33. “Last Stand” by Kelley Armstrong
34. “The Thought War” by Paul McAuley
35. “Dating in Dead World” by Joe McKinney
36. “Flotsam & Jetsam” by Carrie Ryan
37. “Thin Them Out” by Kim Paffenroth, Julia Sevin & RJ Sevin
38. “Zombie Season” by Catherine MacLeod
39. “Tameshigiri” by Steven Gould
40. “The Days of Flaming Motorcycles” by Catherynne M. Valente
41. “Zero Tolerance” by Jonathan Maberry
42. “And the Next, and the Next ” by Genevieve Valentine
43. “The Price of a Slice” by John Skipp & Cody Goodfellow
44. “Are You Trying to Tell Me This is Heaven?” by Sarah Langan

There is also an Introduction written by editor John Joseph Adams.