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050 00 $aPS648.Z64$bZ66 2011
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245 00 $aZombies! zombies! zombies! /$cedited and with an introduction by Otto Penzler.
260 $aNew York :$bVintage Crimes/Black Lizard,$c2011.
300 $axii, 810 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
490 0 $aVintage crime/Black Lizard original
520 $a"Zombies ain't what they used to be. Not so long ago, they were safely ensconced on Haiti so the rest of the world could merely scoff at the bizarre myth of the living dead on one relatively small Caribbean island. Well, they have proliferated at an alarming rate, invading the rest of the world, and it seems unlikely that they have any intention of going away anytime soon. W.B. Seabrook, in his 1929 book, The Magic Island, recounted "true" tales of voodoo magic on Haiti bringing the recently dead back to life as slow-moving, virtually brain-dead creatures who would work tirelessly in the fields without pay and without complaint. These stories introduced the zombie to much of the world, though most national folklores have similar tales and legends. A decade after Seabrook's groundbreaking volume, Zora Neale Hurston researched Haitian folklore and told similar stories of eyewitness accounts of zombies, as have subsequent anthropologists, sociologists, and others not prone to imaginative fancies. If zombie literature began with the reportage of Seabrook, it had powerful ancestral works on which to draw"--$cProvided by publisher.
505 00 $tIntroduction /$rOtto Penzler --$tDead men working in the cane fields /$rW. B. Seabrook --$tAfter nightfall /$rDavid A. Riley --$tMission to Margal /$rHugh B. Cave --$tThe Cairnwell horror /$rChet Williamson --$tCrawling madness /$rArthur Leo Zagat --$tTreading the maze /$rLisa Tuttle --$tRed angels /$rKaren Haber --$tLater /$rMichael Marshall Smith --$tWhite Zombie /$rVivian Meik --$tWas it a dream? /$rGuy de Maupassant --$tBodies and heads /$rSteve Rasnic Tem --$tDeath and suffrage /$rDale Bailey --$tThe Graveyard rats /$rHenry Kuttner --$tThe Facts in the case of M. Valdemar /$rEdgar Allen Poe --$tFeeding the dead inside /$rYvonne Navarro --$tBallet Negre /$rCharles Birkin --$tDead right /$rGeoffrey A. Landis --$tThe Taking of Mr. Bill /$rGraham Masterton --$tThe Grave gives up /$rJack D'Arcy --$tHerbert West-Reanimator /$rH.P. Lovecraft --$tPickman's model /$rH.P. Lovecraft
505 00 $tMaternal instinct /$rRobert Bloch --$tBringing the family /$rKevin J. Anderson --$tMess hall /$rRichard Laymon --$tSchalken the painter /$rSheridan Le Fanu --$tWhile zombies walked /$rThorp McClusky --$tApril flowers, November harvest /$rMary A. Turzillo --$tThe Old man and the dead /$rMort Castle --$tJumbee /$rHenry S. Whitehead --$tMarbh bheo /$rPeter Tremayne --$tThe Hollow man /$rThomas Burke --$tThey bite /$rAnthony Boucher --$tCome one, come all /$rGahan Wilson --$tIt helps if you sing /$rRamsey Campbell --$tThe Ghouls /$rR. Chetwynd-Hayes --$tThe Corpse-Master /$rSeabury Quinn --$tThe Upper berth /$rF. Marion Crawford --$tVengeance of the living dead /$rRalston Shields --$tThe Song the zombie sang /$rHarlan Ellison and Robert Silverberg --$tMen without blood /$rJohn H. Knox --$tThe Broken fang /$rUel Key --$tIt /$rTheodore Sturgeon --$tLeague of the Grateful Dead /$rDay Keene --$tLove child /$rGarry Kilworth --$tCorpses on parade /$rEdith and Ejler Jacobson
505 00 $rWhere there's a will /$rRichard and Christian Matheson --$tThe Dead /$rMichael Swanwick --$tThe Song of the slaves /$rManly Wade Wellman --$tThe Outsider /$rH.P. Lovecraft --$tEat me /$rRobert McCammon --$tDeadman's road /$rJoe R. Lansdale --$tPigeons from hell /$rRobert E. Howard --$tLive people don't understand /$rScott Edelman --$tThe House in the Magnolias /$rAugust Derleth and Mark Schorer --$tHome delivery /$rStephen King --$tDance of the damned /$rArthur J. Burks --$tZ is for zombie /$rTheodore Roscoe.
650 0 $aZombies$vFiction.
650 0 $aZombiism$vFiction.
650 0 $aHorror tales, American.
700 1 $aPenzler, Otto.
856 42 $3Cover image$u978-0-307-74089-2.jpg