The Living Dead

Introduction by John Joseph Adams This Year's Class Picture by Dan Simmons Some Zombie Contingency Plans by Kelly Link Death and Suffrage by Dale Bailey Ghost Dance by Sherman Alexie Blossom by David J. Schow The Third Dead Body by Nina Kiriki Hoffman The Dead by Michael Swanwick The Dead Kid by Darrell Schweitzer Malthusian's Zombie by Jeffrey Ford Beautiful Stuff by Susan Palwick Sex, Death and Starshine by Clive Barker Stockholm Syndrome by David Tallerman Bobby Conroy Comes Back from the Dead by Joe Hill Those Who Seek Forgiveness by Laurell K. Hamilton In Beauty, Like the Night by Norman Partridge Prairie by Brian Evenson Everything Is Better with Zombies by Hannah Wolf Bowen Home Delivery by Stephen King Less Than Zombie by Douglas E. Winter Sparks Fly Upward by Lisa Morton Meathouse Man by George R. R. Martin Deadman's Road by Joe R. Lansdale The Skull-Faced Boy by David Barr Kirtley The Age of Sorrow by Nancy Kilpatrick Bitter Grounds by Neil Gaiman She's Taking Her Tits to the Grave by Catherine Cheek Dead Like Me by Adam-Troy Castro Zora and the Zombie by Andy Duncan Calcutta, Lord of Nerves by Poppy Z. Brite Followed by Will McIntosh The Song the Zombie Sang by Harlan Ellison® and Robert Silverberg Passion Play by Nancy Holder Almost the Last Story by Almost the Last Man by Scott Edelman How the Day Runs Down by John Langan Acknowledgements