News Juno Editor/Paula Guran on 03 Jun 2010 10:13 am
ZOMBIES: THE RECENT DEAD
Not Juno related, but in cse you are interested…
Edited by Paula Guran
Introduction: David J. Schow: “The Meat of the Matter”
(from Zombie Jam, 2003)
Prime Books
October 2010
ISBN:9781607012344
$14.95
You can’t kill the dead.
Zombies have become the first iconic monster of the twenty-first century. In the last decade, the pop-cultural war for the hearts and minds of the masses has been won by creatures who want to eat our hearts and minds.
They just keep shambling back.
Like any good monster, the zombie has proven to be mutable and open to endless interpretations: thralls of voodoo, Romero’s living dead, viral victims, reanimated ramblers, video gaming targets, post-apocalyptic permutations, shuffling sidekicks, literary mash-ups, the comedic, and, yes, even the romantic.
We have an enduring hunger for this infinite onslaught of the ever-hungry dead. It’s a sick job, but somebody had to do it: explore innumerable necrotic nightmares and dig up some of the best of the new millennial zombie stories.
Table of Contents (Alphabetical Order by Author)
Francesca Lia Block. “Farewell, My Zombie,” Black Clock 10, Spring/Summer 2009
Gary A. Braunbeck. “Glorietta,” The World is Dead, 2008
Max Brooks. “The Great Wall: A Story from the Zombie War ” Dark Delicacies II, 2009
Tobias Buckell. “Trinkets”, The Book of All Flesh, 2001
Steve Duffy. “Lie Still, Sleep Becalmed” At Ease with the Dead, 2007.
Andy Duncan. “Zora and the Zombie” Scifi.com, February 2004.
Scott Edelman. “The Last Supper”, The Book of Final Flesh, 2003
Neil Gaiman. “Bitter Grounds”, Mojo: Conjure Stories, 2003
Nik Houser. “First Kisses From Beyond the Grave”, Gargoyle Magazine #51, 2006
Brian Keene. “Three Scenes from the End of the World”. Originally published as three separate stories as “The Ties That Bind” in Unhappy Endings (2009), “The Viking Plays Patty Cake” and “Family Reunion” in The Rising: Selected Scenes From the End of the World (2008)
Alice Sola Kim . “Beautiful White Bodies,” Strange Horizons, 12/09
Joe R. Lansdale. “Deadman’s Road,” Subterranean, Spring 2007
Kelly Link. “The Hortlak”, The Dark: New Ghost Stories, 2003
Tim Lebbon. Naming of Parts, Naming of Parts (chapbook) 2000
McMahon, Gary. “Dead to the World,” The Dead That Walk, 2009.
David Prill. “Dating Secrets of the Dead,” F&SF 6/02, 2003
Kit Reed. “The Zombie Prince”, F&SF 6/04
David J. Schow. “Obsequy”, Subterranean #3, 2006
Michael Marshall Smith. “The Things He Said”, Travellers in Darkness: The Souvenir Book of the World Horror Convention 2007
Kevin Veale. “Twisted”, Weird Tales #354, Fall 2009
Tim Waggoner. “Disarmed and Dangerous”, Spells of the City, 2009
David Wellington. “Dead Man’s Land” The World is Dead, 2009
on 04 Jun 2010 at 2:39 am 1.NAMING OF PARTS named again | Tim Lebbon - horror and dark fantasy author said …
[…] My novella NAMING OF PARTS gets a tenth anniversary appearance this year in Zombies: The Recent Dead, a ten year zombie retrospective edited by Paula Guran. You can see the full table of contents here. […]