Product Description: Our team of crack historians has uncovered the truth you never learned in school: the living dead have walked among us since the dawn of time. In this collection of gruesome tales from throughout the ages, the ravenous undead shamble through bloody battlefields, plague-ridden cities, genteel country estates, and dusty frontier towns. They emerge from foggy cemeteries, frozen barrows, loamy bogs, cursed mines, and gore-spattered operating rooms to prey on the living. But these zombies don't just eat people. They help painters and writers save their faltering careers. They unwittingly push humankind on the quest for fire. They topple evil capitalists and their corporate empires. They fight crime. They fall in love. Join us on a journey into our zombie-filled past... Neither history nor the living dead have ever been this exciting!
Great & Fast The quality of the item I got was in great condition. The time from when I ordered it to when it was delivered was in less time than I thought.
Unique :) This book is very different from what you find in the usual circles of reading, and very entertaining. I am sure that any fan of zombies will love it! :]
Great read, looking for book 2 Loved the book! The story about how the Chicago fire started was a hoot! Wasn't expecting such a variety of zombie stories, they were all written very well. Will there be a book #2?
Unsatisfying I had very high hopes for this books. As a lover of zombie fiction, these short stories should have been right up my ally. Unfortunately, all to many of them miss.
The stories are nearly uniformly poorly conceived. While some are written fairly well, the basis of the stories are un-interesting or go in unsatisfying directions. There are a few stories, such as 'The Reluctant Prometheus' that started fairly interesting, but the execution fell off.
I have to admit that I started to pay less attention as I went on through the stories, and most likely did not give the later ones their proper due. This is a fault of the editor, as the stories should have been picked to have an attention grabber near the beginning, not a snoozer.
While I love zombie fiction, I can not recommend this book. The stories weren't all bad, there are some decent tales, but overall this collection is uniformly unsatisfying to the reader.
Zombies Just Want to Have Fun Clever, innovative twists on the Zombie genre. Lots of great historical/biographical fun thrown in. Haven't enjoyed zombies this much since watching the 1940's Zombies on Broadway.
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