Zombies! Zombies! Zombies!

Zusatztext "Rollicking . . . Over-the-top . . . Hard to resist." -- The Wall Street Journal “We would do well to page through a wonderfully thorough new anthology of short fiction called! straightforwardly enough! Zombies! Zombies! Zombies! . . . Showcas[es] countless terrific writers! known and unknown. . . . If you like your zombies with a dose of literary erudition and horror fiction with character! intelligence! and atmosphere! be [sure to] pick this one up.” — SF Weekly   “ Presents a . . . nuanced portrayal of death brought to life—one to which Gen Xers! Gen Yers and others probably haven't been previously exposed. . . . high on drama! tension and a feeling of the macabre. . . . I’d say it’s a no-brainer.” —Mike Householder! Associated Press   “Splendid. . . . A full dance card of undead heavy hitters that range from the timeless (Edgar Allan Poe! H.P. Lovecraft! Richard Matheson) to the timely (Scott Edelman! Joe R. Lansdale! Dale Bailey).. . . . Zombie aficionados will eagerly embrace this controversial and comprehensive collection.” — Library Journal Informationen zum Autor Edited with an Introduction by Otto Penzler Klappentext "Zombies! Zombies! Zombies!" is the darkest! the living-deadliest! scariest--and dare we say most tasteful--collection of zombie stories ever assembled. It's so good! it's a no-brainer. There is never a dull moment in the world of zombies. They are superstars of horror and they are everywhere! storming the world of print and visual media. Their endless march will never be stopped. It's the Zombie Zeitgeist! Now! with his wide sweep of knowledge and keen eye for great storytelling! Otto Penzler offers a remarkable catalog of zombie literature. Including unstoppable tales from world-renowned authors like Stephen King! Joe R. Lansdale! Robert McCammon! Robert E. Howard! and Richard Matheson to the writer who started it all! W.B. Seabrook! "Zombies! Zombies! Zombies!" will delight and devour horror fans from coast to coast. Featuring: - Deadly bites - Satanic Pigeons - A parade of corpses - Zombies! zombies! and more zombies Introduction by Otto Penzler ZOMBIES AIN'T WHAT they used to be. Not so long ago, they were safely ensconced on Haiti so the rest of the world could merely scoff at the bizarre myth of the living dead on one relatively small Caribbean island. Well, they have proliferated at an alarming rate, invading the rest of the world, and it seems unlikely that they have any intention of going away anytime soon. W. B. Seabrook, in his 1929 book, The Magic Island , recounted “true” tales of voodoo magic on Haiti bringing the recently dead back to life as slow- moving, virtually brain-dead creatures who would work tirelessly in the fields without pay and without complaint. These stories introduced the zombie to much of the world, though most national folklores have similar tales and legends. A decade after Seabrook’s groundbreaking volume, Zora Neale Hurston researched Haitian folklore and told similar stories of eyewitness accounts of zombies, as have subsequent anthropologists, sociologists, and others not prone to imaginative fancies. If zombie literature began with the reportage of Seabrook, it had powerful ancestral works on which to draw. Stories of the living dead, or ghouls, or reanimated people, have existed since the Arabian Nights tales and borrowed from other horror story motifs, from the lurching reanimated monster of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to the undead vampires of John Polidori’s The Vampyre and Bram Stoker’s Dracula . Several of the most distinguished short-story writers of the nineteenth century turned to figures who had been dead but then, uh-oh, were alive. Edgar Allan Poe was almost relentless in his use of the dead coming back to life, most famously in “The Fall of the House of Usher” ...

Product details

• Authors: Otto Penzler, Otto (EDT) Penzler
• Assisted by: Otto Penzler (Editor)
• Publisher: Vintage USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2011
• EAN: 9780307740892
• ISBN: 978-0-307-74089-2
• No. of pages: 832
• Dimensions: 176 mm x 232 mm x 37 mm
• Series: VINTAGE BOOKS
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature