(I got a copy through NetGalley, in exchange for an honest review.)Anthologies are always difficult for me to rate—so many different stories, so many authors, and you know you're bound to find very good pieces, and some you don't like at all. As far as collections go, this one about zombies was a fairly good one, all in all, that I would rate a 3.5 to 4 stars.(Also, the time I spend reading a book is usually a good indicator of my interest in it, but in this case, it doesn't apply. I was reading...

Let me start by saying I am a huge zombie film fan. Zombie books, I've read a couple of them but I am not an expert. I really like the intro to the anthology explaining the history of zombies and the impact they've had on television, film, and literature. I found some of the stories to be very engaging, yet disturbing and strange, while others seemed to miss something. For what it is, I very much enjoyed it.

More zombie stories here than you can shake a gnawed leg bone at. Every zombie fan is bound to find something to their taste here. Let this anthology entertain your braaaiiinnns.....**** Matthew Johnson, “The Afflicted”Well, we're looking for zombies here, and this is a very good zombie story. Here, the elderly persons who were first infested with the zombie virus were packed off to FEMA quarantine camps - along with the healthy care workers assigned to look after them. To stay alive, one nurse

One of the best zombie anthologies I’ve read—some really good stories here and only a few duds.

"Zombies: More Recent Dead," edited by Paula Guran, is yet another anthology of short stories featuring the walking dead. While it features a few excellent stories, a lot of the stories are random musings on life, the universe and everything, with a zombie or two thrown in for flavor. While a short story anthology can usually get away with a few stories that aren't quite related to the subject at hand, at some point the balance gets disrupted.This is just a guess, but the editor might have delib...

Very, very good Anthology about zombies. I was surprise to see that I didn`t read the first Anthology in this serie, with bigger names on it`s cover, but this one was very good, too.The stories that I`ve liked are:Mike Carey - Iphigenia in Aulis, The story that started the novel, The girl with all the gifts. Shira Lipkin - Becca at the End of the World, The last hour of a daughter that will transform in to a zombie in front of her mother.Maureen F. McHugh - The Naturalist, About a inmate in a re...

A solid collection with some outstanding moments. Some very nice stuff.

I love a story that takes me away and sucks me in to it's world. This book, this collection of stories, did that to me on numerous occasions. The only disappointment I suffered with this book is that so many of my favorite stories ended too soon! I was so drawn in that I didn't want them to end. I highly recommend this book to any zombie enthusiast.

Some really great stories in here.

First, I want to say that I won this book in a Goodreads giveaway. No review asked in exchange.This is a hard book to review. I'm not used to reading short stories, and even less used to review them.1- The Afflicted by Matthew Johnson: This one is different kind of zombie book where, as people grow old, they lose their memory and slowly turn. I won't say more because of spoilers but it delivers and was a great choice for opener. (4*)2- Dead Song by Jay Wilburn: While well written, it didn't keep...

I've read this twice now, and honestly the stories are really fantastic. It ranges from brief poetry to long 'short story' formats, and the broadest definitions of Zombies, which is very refreshing! I have really enjoyed it, it's very rare for me to read any book twice, in fact, which is always proof it's worth just diving into and... yes... devouring. ;)

As a whole, this is an excellent collection of stories and some amazing authors contributed to it (ie Roxane Gay, Neil Gaiman, Mike Carey, etc). I liked some stories better than others, but enjoyed the bind up!

My thanks to NetGalley and Prime Books for an eARC copy of this book to read and review.Meh. DNF at 40%-ish. There was maybe one story that I read that I liked. The rest were either meh or Oh HELL no. Good compilation if you are a true "Dead Head" I suppose. Most of the stories are about the stupidity and evil-ness of humans, rather than zombies, though zombies are present. Not my bag, but one I would recommend to those who are into zombies and don't mind reading about people being depressingly

A great anthology, both mixing it up in style and subject, with a number of really good to great works. (There were a handful of stories that I either skipped or didn't enjoy, but they were dwarfed, dwarfed by the rest of the stories). The stories ranged from stories about Dawn of the Dead style, classic "zombies"; voodoo mind-controlled zombies; stories where zombies show up as just one of many odd events; and even a few science fiction stories (such as a short story by Charles Stross set in hi...

Zombies have been increasingly popular the past few years, but stories and myths of zombies (or zombis) have been around for even longer. From Romeroesque zombies to radioactive robots, with everything in between, this is a great collection of everything zombie.And by everything, I mean EVERYTHING. Thirty six short stories are available within this collection. There are poems about zombies, stories about voodoo zombis, extra-short short stories, and longer short stories. Charles Stross brings wi...

Overall I found this anthology to be a diverse collection of all things zombie, the quality was a little rocky at times, but the great stories squirreled away in this tome made it all worth reading. 3.5/5 See tag for more details.(view spoiler)[The Afflicted I really liked this one, you should have seen the look on my face when(view spoiler)[ the zombie talked! lol (hide spoiler)] 5/5Dead Song - I wasn't a huge fan of the writing but I wasn't too bored. 3/5Iphigenia in Aulis - I thought this was...

My first impression of this book: 36? Thirty-six? That’s a vast amount of stories for an anthology! Even 20 would have been pretty bigMy second impression: No, really, 36? Seriously?My third impression: wait, 36 stories and it’s only 480 pages long? How does that work?Simply, a lot of it doesn’t – we have some frankly weird, surreal, barely related and generally random filler fluff pieces some of which defy me even commenting on them because I have no idea why they’re there other than to pad an

Quite a few good stories to be found here. Standouts include Jonathan Maberry (the main reason I wanted to read this), Shira Lipkin, Carrie Ryan, Ron Goulart, Nicole Kornher-Stace and a short, funny story by Neil Gaiman.Unfortunately, the whole thing ends on a really, really boring story from Charles Stross. Horribly written - it's almost like a lecture, complete with complex, unneccessary descriptions of technical stuff. Sooooooo boring.All in all a nice little package though.

A wonderful collection of various zombie stories - several of which a new a new twist on an old genre. My favorites include: its not Alzehmers, its a zombie virus that grandma has, being saved by your flu vaccination ( ha all you anti-vaccers) and even androids can have zombie problems. Enjoy!

[Full disclosure: I requested and received a free ebook through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.]I’ve been suffering from a severe case of Walking Dead withdrawal for a few months, so I figured that I might as well get back into that zombie kind of mood with a new anthology from some well-known authors. Jonathon Maberry, Neil Gaiman and so many more authors that I actually like were included in this anthology. Where could it go wrong?Apparently, almost everywhere. This is a non-tradit...