Book of the Dead

[from back of book]

You hold in your hands what is perhaps the most explicit and overt anthology of orginal horror fiction ever assembled.

Each of the stories in this anthology is set in a world where the dead have risen to eat the living, and each author has his own intimate vision of what those days will be like: in the brilliant and caustic "On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert with Dead Folks," Joe R. Lansdalespins what should be a traditional western yarn about a lawman tracking a badman - the deadly dead, however, give that tradition a special twist; Stephen King's pregnant heroine in "Home Delivery" learns he exorbitant price of survival and of patience; Robert McCammon's "Eat Me" answers all the questions about love among the newly risen; and Douglas E. Winter's "Less Than Zombie" allows us a very unhealthy peek at the pampered, exclsive, and totally lifeless life-styles of the rich and famous.

Together these stories are a stream of timeless, mind-blowing spike points by some of the most talented, savage, and unique imaginations writing fiction today.

This is a book filled with flaming, frozen moments of dread and wonder you will never in a million years forget.

This is a book that goes too far.

And invites you along for the ride.

Still Dead: Book of the Dead II

[from slip cover]

The dead are restless again.

In 1968 George Romero unleashed upon an innocent public a horde of flesh-eating zombies in his drive-in classic Night of the Living Dead. Gritty and shocking, bleak and incredibly real, Romero's film changed the cinematic face of horror forever. The Universal and A.I.P. and Hammer excursions into the dark side seemed positively quaint in comparison.

And Romero's undead ate the "quaint" for lunch.

Similarly, in 1989 writers John Skipp and Craig Spector published Book of the Dead, a collection of stories inspired by and drawing upon the theme of Romero's movie. Released at a time when "quiet horror" was the popular buzz-term, Skipp and Spector's zombies, well, ate the "quiet" for supper.

Now for dessert.

Still Dead is a blood-chilling return to the world of Night of the Living Dead. Featuring 19 original stories by such masters as Dan Simmons, Kathe Koja, K.W. Jeter, and Nancy A. Collins among others, this is a book to be read with the lights on and the doors locked.

Because the dead are back. And they're still hungry.