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:
- “Alone, Together” by Robert Kirkman
- “Danger Word” by Steven Barnes & Tananarive Due
- “Zombieville” by Paula Stiles
- “The Anteroom” by Adam-Troy Castro
- “When the Zombies Win” by Karina Sumner-Smith
- “Mouja” by Matt London
- “Category Five” by Marc Paoletti
- “Living with the Dead” by Molly Brown
- “Twenty-Three Snapshots of San Francisco” by Seth Lindberg
- “The Mexican Bus” by Walter Greatshell
- “The Other Side” by Jamie Lackey
- “Where the Heart Was” by David J. Schow
- “Good People” by David Wellington
- “Lost Canyon of the Dead” by Brian Keene
- “Pirates vs. Zombies” by Amelia Beamer
- “The Crocodiles” by Steven Popkes
- “The Skull-Faced City” by David Barr Kirtley
- “Obedience” by Brenna Yovanoff
- “Steve and Fred” by Max Brooks
- “The Rapeworm” by Charlie Finlay
- “Everglades” by Mira Grant
- “We Now Pause For Station Identification” by Gary Braunbeck
- “Reluctance” by Cherie Priest
- “Arlene Schabowski Of The Undead” by Mark McLaughlin & Kyra M. Schon
- “Zombie Gigolo” by S. G. Browne
- “Rural Dead” by Bret Hammond
- “The Summer Place” by Bob Fingerman
- “The Wrong Grave” by Kelly Link
- “The Human Race” by Scott Edelman
- “Who We Used to Be” by David Moody
- “Therapeutic Intervention” by Rory Harper
- “He Said, Laughing” by Simon R. Green
- “Last Stand” by Kelley Armstrong
- “The Thought War” by Paul McAuley
- “Dating in Dead World” by Joe McKinney
- “Flotsam & Jetsam” by Carrie Ryan
- “Thin Them Out” by Kim Paffenroth, Julia Sevin & RJ Sevin
- “Zombie Season” by Catherine MacLeod
- “Tameshigiri” by Steven Gould
- “The Days of Flaming Motorcycles” by Catherynne M. Valente
- “Zero Tolerance” by Jonathan Maberry
- “And the Next, and the Next ” by Genevieve Valentine
- “The Price of a Slice” by John Skipp & Cody Goodfellow
- “Are You Trying to Tell Me This is Heaven?” by Sarah Langan
There is also an Introduction written by editor John Joseph Adams.
Does anyone know if Max Brooks’s story take place in the World War Z verse?