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George A. Romero invented the modern zombie with Night of the Living Dead, creating a monster that has become a key part of pop culture. Romero often felt hemmed in by the constraints of film-making. To tell the story of the rise of the zombies and the fall of humanity the way it should be told, Romero turned to fiction. Unfortunately, when he died, the story was incomplete.

Enter Daniel Kraus. A lifelong Romero fan, Kraus was honored to be asked, by Romero's widow, to complete The Living Dead.

Set in the present day, The Living Dead is an entirely new tale, the story of the zombie plague as George A. Romero wanted to tell it.

It begins with one body.

A pair of medical examiners find themselves battling a dead man who won't stay dead. It spreads quickly.

In a Midwestern trailer park, a Black teenage girl and a Muslim immigrant battle newly-risen friends and family. On a US aircraft carrier, living sailors hide from dead ones while a fanatic makes a new religion out of death. At a cable news station, a surviving anchor keeps broadcasting while his undead colleagues try to devour him. In DC, an autistic federal employee charts the outbreak, preserving data for a future that may never come.

Everywhere, people are targeted by both the living and the dead.

We think we know how this story ends.

We. Are. Wrong.

In 1968, the world experienced a brand-new kind of terror with the debut of George A. Romero's landmark movie Night of the Living Dead. The newly dead rose to attack the living. Not as vampires or werewolves. This was something new... and terrifying. Since then, zombies have invaded every aspect of popular culture.

But it all started on that dreadful night in a remote farmhouse...

Nights of the Living Dead returns to that night, to the outbreak, to where it all began. Jonathan Maberry teams with the godfather of the living dead himself, George A. Romero, to present a collection of all-new tales set during the forty-eight hours of that legendary outbreak.

Nights of the Living Dead includes stories by some of today's most important writers: Brian Keene, Carrie Ryan, Chuck Wendig, Craig E. Engler, David J. Schow, David Wellington, Isaac Marion, Jay Bonansinga, Joe R. Lansdale, John A. Russo, John Skipp, Keith R.A. DeCandido, Max Brallier, Mike Carey, Mira Grant, Neal and Brenda Shusterman, and Ryan Brown. Plus original stories by Romero and Maberry!

For anyone who loves scary stories, take a bite out of this!

THE OLD WORLD WILL DIE IN FLAMES...

Ireland, 1011 AD. The mortal kingdoms rise up against High King Brian Boru as they seek to wrest his crown from him. Yet the real struggle is between the two magical races of Ireland, the Fomorians and the Descendants, eternal enemies who both now seek dominion over the mortal world.

Gormflaith, queen of King Brian, remains unmasked as the powerful Fomorian she is. Gormflaith plans to establish control over Ireland and destroy the Descendants in one fell swoop... but she cannot do it alone.

The Descendants are divided, for not all their kind wish to dominate the mortals. Fódla, a Descendant who was once part of King Brian's inner circle, must use this division to thwart treacherous plots that have been long in the making -- even if it means sacrificing herself. But with other lives on the line, can Fódla reveal the evil in time?

As secret schemes come to deadly fruition, the only possible outcome is war. Ireland has bled red and often, but the coming clash will change the course of history for ever.

An anthology of zombie short fiction from some of the biggest names in horror and speculative fiction - including Stephen King, George R. R. Martin and Neil Gaiman

When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth!

From White Zombie to Dawn of the Dead, Resident Evil to World War Z, zombies have invaded popular culture, becoming the monsters that best express the fears and anxieties of the modern west.

Gathering together the best zombie literature of the last three decades from many of today's most renowned authors of fantasy, speculative fiction, and horror, including Stephen King, Harlan Ellison, Robert Silverberg, George R. R. Martin, Clive Barker, Poppy Z. Brite, Neil Gaiman, Joe Hill, Laurell K. Hamilton, and Joe R. Lansdale, The Living Dead covers the broad spectrum of zombie short fiction.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (The Living Dead) - (2008) - essay by John Joseph Adams
• This Year's Class Picture - (1992) - shortstory by Dan Simmons
• Some Zombie Contingency Plans - (2005) - novelette by Kelly Link
• Death and Suffrage - (2002) - novelette by Dale Bailey
• Ghost Dance - (2003) - shortstory by Sherman Alexie
• Blossom - (1989) - shortstory by David J. Schow
• The Third Dead Body - (1993) - shortstory by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
• The Dead - (1996) - shortstory by Michael Swanwick
• The Dead Kid - (2002) - shortstory by Darrell Schweitzer
• Malthusian's Zombie - (2000) - novelette by Jeffrey Ford
• Beautiful Stuff - (2004) - shortstory by Susan Palwick
• Sex, Death and Starshine - (1984) - novelette by Clive Barker
• Stockholm Syndrome - (2007) - shortstory by David Tallerman
• Bobby Conroy Comes Back from the Dead - (2005) - shortstory by Joe Hill
• Those Who Seek Forgiveness - (2006) - shortstory by Laurell K. Hamilton
• In Beauty, Like the Night - (1992) - shortstory by Norman Partridge
• Prairie - (1997) - shortstory by Brian Evenson
• Everything Is Better with Zombies - (2006) - shortstory by Hannah Wolf Bowen
• Home Delivery - (1989) - novelette by Stephen King
• Less Than Zombie - (1989) - shortstory by Douglas E. Winter
• Sparks Fly Upward - (2005) - shortstory by Lisa Morton
• Meathouse Man - (1976) - novelette by George R. R. Martin
• Deadman's Road - (2007) - novelette by Joe R. Lansdale
• The Skull-Faced Boy - (2002) - shortstory by David Barr Kirtley
• The Age of Sorrow - (2007) - shortstory by Nancy Kilpatrick
• Bitter Grounds - (2003) - novelette by Neil Gaiman
• She's Taking Her Tits to the Grave - (2008) - shortstory by Catherine Cheek
• Dead Like Me - (2000) - shortstory by Adam-Troy Castro
• Zora and the Zombie - (2004) - novelette by Andy Duncan
• Calcutta, Lord of Nerves - (1992) - shortstory by Poppy Z. Brite
• Followed - (2006) - shortstory by Will McIntosh
• The Song the Zombie Sang - (1970) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison and Robert Silverberg
• Passion Play - (1992) - shortstory by Nancy Holder
• Almost the Last Story by Almost the Last Man - (2007) - novelette by Scott Edelman
• How the Day Runs Down - novelette by John Langan

The Living Dead 2 has more of what zombie fans hunger for -- more scares, more action, more... brains! Experience the indispensable series that defines the very best in zombie literature with original stories by Kelley Armstrong, Karina Sumner-Smith, Carrie Ryan, Jamie Lackey, Genevieve Valentine, Brian Keene, Simon R. Green, David Wellington, David Barr Kirtley, Matt London, Joe McKinney, Walter Greatshell, Bob Fingerman, S. G. Browne, Jonathan Maberry, Mira Grant, Marc Paoletti, cherie priest, Robert Kirkman, Max Brooks, David Moody, Sarah Langan, Steven Gould, and John Skipp & Cody Goodfellow. In addition to these original stories, The Living Dead 2 features 18 additional reprint zombie stories. All this adds up to a Landmark volume that helps define what zombie godfather John Skipp calls "The New Zombie Literature."

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (The Living Dead 2) - essay by John Joseph Adams
• Alone, Together - novelette by Robert Kirkman
• Danger Word - (2004) - novelette by Steven Barnes and Tananarive Due
• Zombieville - (2010) - shortstory by Paula R. Stiles
• The Anteroom - shortstory by Adam-Troy Castro
• When the Zombies Win - shortstory by Karina Sumner-Smith
• Mouja - shortstory by Matt London
• Category Five - shortstory by Marc Paoletti
• Living with the Dead - (2008) - shortstory by Molly Brown
• Twenty-Three Snapshots of San Francisco - (2000) - shortstory by Seth Lindberg
• The Mexican Bus - shortstory by Walter Greatshell
• The Other Side - shortstory by Jamie Lackey
• Where the Heart Was - (1993) - shortstory by David J. Schow
• Good People - shortstory by David Wellington
• Lost Canyon of the Dead - shortstory by Brian Keene
• Pirates vs. Zombies - shortstory by Amelia Beamer
• The Crocodiles - (2010) - novelette by Steven Popkes
• The Skull-Faced City - shortstory by David Barr Kirtley
• Obedience - (2009) - shortstory by Brenna Yovanoff
• Steve and Fred - shortstory by Max Brooks
• The Rapeworm - shortstory by Charles Coleman Finlay
• Everglades - shortstory by Mira Grant
• We Now Pause For Station Identification - shortstory by Gary A. Braunbeck
• Reluctance - shortstory by Cherie Priest
• Arlene Schabowski of the Undead - (2007) - shortstory by Mark McLaughlin and Kyra M. Schon
• Zombie Gigolo - shortstory by S. G. Browne
• Rural Dead - shortstory by Bret Hammond
• The Summer Place - shortstory by Bob Fingerman
• The Wrong Grave - (2007) - novelette by Kelly Link
• The Human Race - (2009) - shortstory by Scott Edelman
• Who We Used to Be - shortstory by David Moody
• Therapeutic Intervention - shortstory by Rory Harper
• He Said, Laughing - shortstory by Simon R. Green
• Last Stand - shortstory by Kelley Armstrong
• The Thought War - (2008) - shortstory by Paul J. McAuley
• Dating in Dead World - novelette by Joe McKinney
• Flotsam & Jetsam - [Forest of Hands and Teeth] - shortstory by Carrie Ryan
• Thin Them Out - novelette by Kim Paffenroth and R. J. Sevin and Julia Sevin
• Zombie Season - (2008) - shortstory by Catherine MacLeod
• Tameshigiri - shortstory by Steven Gould
• The Days of Flaming Motorcycles - (2010) - shortstory by Catherynne M. Valente
• Zero Tolerance - shortstory by Jonathan Maberry
• And the Next, and the Next - shortstory by Genevieve Valentine
• The Price of a Slice - novelette by John Skipp and Cody Goodfellow
• Are You Trying To Tell Me This Is Heaven? - shortstory by Sarah Langan