Book of the Dead

Plot

You hold in your hands what is perhaps the most explicit and overt anthology of original 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. Lansdale spins what should be a traditional western yarn about a lawman tracking a badman-the deadly dead, however, give that tradition a special twist; Stephen Kings pregnant heroine in Home Delivery learns the exorbitant price of survival and of patience; Robert P. McCammons Eat Me answers all the questions about love among the newly risen; and Douglas E. Winters Less Than Zombie allows us a very unhealthy peek at the pampered, exclusive. 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.