You can't kill the dead! Like any good monster, the zombie has proven to beever-evolving, monumentally mutable, and open to seemingly endless imaginativeinterpretations: the thralls of voodoo sorcerers, George Romero's living dead,societal symbols, dancing thrillers, viral victims, reanimated ramblers, videogaming targets, post-apocalyptic permutations, shuffling sidekicks, literarymash-ups, the comedic, and, yes, even the romantic. Evidently, we have anenduring hunger for this infinite onslaught of the ever-hungry dead. Hoards ofreaders are now devouring zombie fiction faster than armies of the undead couldchow down their brains.
It's a sick job, but somebody had to do it: explore the innumerable necroticnightmares of the latest, greatest, most fervent devotion in the history ofhumankind and ferret out the best of new millenial zombie stories: Zombies:The Recent Dead.

Visual artist(s): Luis Royo