Zombies: Shambling Through the Ages

• It's a wonder humanity ever survived into the twenty-first century. Even Neanderthals knew to bury the dead beneath stones to prevent corpses from rising. Ancient civilizations feared slain warriors would return from battlefields, medieval physicians worried that bodies would rise from plague pits, many cultures buried the dead at crossroads to prevent the dead from walking.
• In Zombies: Shambling Through the Ages, editor Steve Berman has collected stories that reveal the threat of revenants and the living dead is far from recent. From the Bronze Age to World War II, this anthology guides us through millennia of thrills, chills, kills, carnage, horror, and havoc wreaked throughout history by the walking dead.

Summary

• It’s a wonder humanity ever survived into the twenty-first century.
  Even Neanderthals knew to bury the dead beneath stones to prevent corpses from
  rising. Ancient civilizations feared slain warriors would return from
  battlefields, medieval physicians worried that bodies would rise from plague
  pits, many cultures buried the dead at crossroads to prevent the dead from
  walking.


• In Zombies: Shambling Through the Ages, editor Steve Berman has
  collected stories that reveal the threat of revenants and the living dead is far
  from recent. From the Bronze Age to World War II, this anthology guides us
  through millennia of thrills, chills, kills, carnage, horror, and havoc wreaked
  throughout history by the walking dead.

Product details

• Authors: Nunzio DeFilippis, Scott Edelman, Joe McKinney, Antony Johnston, Jonathan Maberry, Stephen Graham Jones, Livia Llewellyn, Livia Llewellyn, Jonathan Maberry, Joe Mckinney, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Scott Edelman, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Stephen Graham Jones, Christina Weir
• Assisted by: Steve Berman (Editor), Steve Berman (Editor)
• Publisher: Diamond US
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 16
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.07.2013
• EAN: 9781607013952
• ISBN: 978-1-60701-395-2
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 386 g
• Subject: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy