By: Eric S. Brown Publisher: Permuted Press Average Rating: Binding: Paperback Label: Permuted Press Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 260 Publication Date: October 31, 2005
Product Description: The Undead is a stunning collection of 23 tales of the living dead by zombie fan favorites and up-and-coming authors. The Undead includes classic tales of survival in a world populated by the living dead as well as an array of unique takes on the zombie genre: zombies as reality entertainment, glimpses from inside the "life" of the undead, intergalactic war with humanity's own dead turned against us, and everything in between. The Undead will leave zombie fans hungry for more!
Solid debut for an anthology series Undead. The very word makes you shudder. Cold, lifeless bodies somehow still moving, running solely on instinct with an all-consuming hunger for human flesh. A horde of walking dead that don't stop clawing at you, don't stop chasing you, don't give up...until they have you.
The Undead's collection of zombie stories is just like that: unrelenting, non-stop, the-dead-keep-on-coming action, nearly each story gripping you hard and sucking you into a world of never-ending night.
Some of the stories in this book are simply exciting tales of flesh-hungry gut-munchers, where others are more atmospheric, and yet others more character-driven than zombie-driven. For me personally, it's the latter that I enjoy most (though I'm never opposed to a good old-fashioned zombie romp either).
My favorite character-driven stories for this anthology were, "Home" by David Moody and "Ann at Twilight" by Brent Zirnheld.
"Chuy and the Fish" by David Wellington is also a huge favorite. So very original, in this reviewer's opinion.
Other cool and well-written tales I thoroughly enjoyed were: "Hotline" by Russell Calhoun, "Graveyard Slot" by Cavan Scott, "13 Ways of Looking at the Living Dead" by Eric Pape, "Undead Prometheus" by Rob Morganbesser and "Pale Moonlight" by D.L. Snell.
There were a few stories that fell short and one in particular that I remember reading and going, "Okay, not really sure what that was supposed to be."
There are three more books in Permuted Press's Undead Anthology series.
They're on my list.
This first volume got me hooked.
Interesting but.. This collection should be given a miss, not even really one compelling story among the lot. I have read about half the stories and am a bit disapointed. Anyone want my copy for 5 bucks? :-)
Delicious Worth the money and the best of the three. Liked the different takes on the Zed's but the art work was cheesy. With all due respect to the artists it was a distraction to the writing.
Zombi-fied!! I really liked this book. There were a couple of stories I didn't care for, but it really scratched that itch I have for the zombie genre. There needs to be more of these!
Good Zombie stories Many different genres and styles represented. A great read. It was over much too soon.
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