With the popularity of zombies infecting the pop culture like it has, more writers than ever have been itching to try their hand at a zombie story, so it was not difficult to find writers eager to participate in the book. Twenty-five of the forty-four stories appear for the first time in this anthology. Volume One was comprised entirely of reprints (except for one original story, by John Langan), but this volume is mostly original with a mix of selected reprints. Let’s talk a bit about this anthology in particular, and how it is similar to and different from Volume One. If you were inclined to have zombies in all of your entertainment, I expect you’d have very little trouble finding things to watch, play, or read, all of them chock-full of zombie mayhem.īut since zombies have continued to dominate the popular consciousness-and Volume One was so popular with readers and critics-it was an easy decision to do a second volume of zombie stories after all, even at 230,000 words, I couldn’t fit everything I wanted to into the first book!Īnd while it’s obvious that the public can’t get enough of zombies, well, I guess it’s just as obvious neither can I. Plus, a film adaptation is in the works for Max Brooks’s World War Z, and Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead is being made into a television series.Īnd all of that’s just off the top of my head-if I wanted to make an extensive list, I’m sure it could be ten times longer. Zombies, Dead Rising 2, Dead Space, Left 4 Dead, Left 4 Dead 2) and a veritable horde of books (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and its sequel, books from several of the contributors to this anthology, and even a Star Wars zombie novel called Death Troopers). There have been new movies (Quarantine, REC 2, Deadgirl, Diary of the Dead, Survival of the Dead, Dead Snow, Zombie Strippers, Zombieland) video games (Plants vs. In the last couple years there have been a slew of new zombie entertainments released, across all media. But now it looks like they’ve only become more popular in the intervening period, spreading throughout an unsuspecting population like zombiism itself. When the book actually came out in September of 2008, it seemed like the timing was perfect, that we would be hitting right at the crest of the zombie’s popularity. When Night Shade Books and I put the first The Living Dead anthology together a couple years ago (which I will refer to hereafter as Volume One), we had the sense that zombies would be big, but I don’t think any of us realized just how big they would become. Turns out, zombies really don’t want to die. Valente, Jonathan Maberry, Genevieve Valentine, John Skipp, Cody Goodfellow, Sarah Langan Sevin, Julia Sevin, Catherine MacLeod, Steven Gould, Catherynne M. Green, Kelley Armstrong, Paul McAuley, Joe McKinney, Carrie Ryan, Kim Paffenroth, R. Browne, Bret Hammond, Bob Fingerman, Kelly Link, Scott Edelman, David Moody, Rory Harper, Simon R. Braunbeck, Cherie Priest, Mark McLaughlin, Kyra M. Schow, David Wellington, Brian Keene, Amelia Beamer, Steven Popkes, Barr Kirtley, Brenna Yovanoff, Max Brooks, Charles Coleman Finlay, Mira Grant, Gary A. Stiles, Adam-Troy Castro, Karina Sumner-Smith, Matt London, Marc Paoletti, Molly Brown, Seth Lindberg, Walter Greatshell, Jamie Lackey, David J. John Joseph Adams, Robert Kirkman, Steven Barnes, Tananarive Due, Paula R. Experience the indispensable series that defines the very best in zombie literature. The Living Dead 2 has more of what zombie fans hunger for – more scares, more action, more… brains. You'll even witness nightmare scenarios in which humanity is utterly wiped away beneath a relentless tide of fetid flesh. Within these pages samurai warriors face off against the legions of hell, necrotic dinosaurs haunt a mysterious lost world, and eerily clever zombies organize their mindless brethren into a terrifying army. Publishers Weekly named it one of the Best Books of the Year, and Barnes called it "The best collection of zombie fiction ever." Now acclaimed editor John Joseph Adams is back for another bite at the apple – the Adam's apple, that is – with 44 more of the best, most chilling, most thrilling zombie stories anywhere, including virtuoso performances by zombie fiction legends Max Brooks (World War Z, The Zombie Survival Guide), Robert Kirkman (The Walking Dead), and David Wellington (Monster Island ).įrom Left 4 Dead to Zombieland to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, ghoulishness has never been more exciting and relevant. Two years ago, readers eagerly devoured The Living Dead. Genre: thriller The Living Dead 2 John Adams
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