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The Living Dead 2
Other Books edited by John Joseph Adams
Wastelands
Seeds of Change
The Living Dead
By Blood We Live
Federations
The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Forthcoming Anthologies
The Way of the Wizard
The Mad Scientists Guide to World Domination
Brave New Worlds
The Book of Cthulhu
The Living Dead 2 2010 by John Joseph Adams
This edition of The Living Dead 2 2010 by Night Shade Books
Cover art by David Palumbo
Cover design by Michael Ellis
Interior layout and design by Ross E. Lockhart
All rights reserved
Introduction 2010 John Joseph Adams
Author Notes 2010 John Joseph Adams and David Barr Kirtley
An extension of this copyright page can be found on pages 495-496.
First Edition
ISBN 978-1-59780-190-4
Printed in Canada
Night Shade Books
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Introduction
By John Joseph Adams
T urns out, zombies really dont want to die.
When Night Shade Books and I put the first The Living Dead anthology together a couple years ago (which I will refer to hereafter as Volume One), we had the sense that zombies would be big, but I dont think any of us realized just how big they would become.
When the book actually came out in September of 2008, it seemed like the timing was perfect, that we would be hitting right at the crest of the zombies popularity. But now it looks like theyve only become more popular in the intervening period, spreading throughout an unsuspecting population like zombiism itself.
In the last couple years there have been a slew of new zombie entertainments released, across all media. There have been new movies (Quarantine, REC2, Deadgirl, Diary of the Dead, Survival of the Dead, Dead Snow, Zombie Strippers, Zombieland); video games (Plants vs. Zombies, Dead Rising 2, Dead Space, Left 4 Dead, Left 4 Dead 2); and a veritable horde of books (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and its sequel, books from several of the contributors to this anthology, and even a Star Wars zombie novel called Death Troopers). Plus, a film adaptation is in the works for Max Brookss World War Z, and Robert Kirkmans The Walking Dead is being made into a television series.
And all of thats just off the top of my headif I wanted to make an extensive list, Im sure it could be ten times longer. If you were inclined to have zombies in all of your entertainment, I expect youd have very little trouble finding things to watch, play, or read, all of them chock-full of zombie mayhem.
But since zombies have continued to dominate the popular consciousnessand Volume One was so popular with readers and criticsit was an easy decision to do a second volume of zombie stories; after all, even at 230,000 words, I couldnt fit everything I wanted to into the first book!
And while its obvious that the public cant get enough of zombies, well, I guess its just as obvious neither can I.
Lets talk a bit about this anthology in particular, and how it is similar to and different from Volume One.
Volume One was comprised entirely of reprints (except for one original story, by John Langan), but this volume is mostly original with a mix of selected reprints. Twenty-five of the forty-four stories appear for the first time in this anthology.
With the popularity of zombies infecting the pop culture like it has, more writers than ever have been itching to try their hand at a zombie story, so it was not difficult to find writers eager to participate in the book. I asked some of the top names in zombie fictionMax Brooks (World War Z), Robert Kirkman (The Walking Dead), David Wellington (Monster Island), Brian Keene (The Rising), and othersalong with some bestsellers and rising stars of the science fiction, fantasy, and horror fieldsto write me original stories. And boy did they deliver.
For Volume One, I chose stories that I felt represented the best of the best and together showcased the range of what zombie fiction was capable of. This time around, because my intent was to include the best new stories, I focused on finding the best material that had never previously appeared in a zombie anthology before. So while nineteen of the stories are reprints, theres a good chance thateven if youre a hardcore zombie fantheyll be entirely new to you.
To bring this introduction to a close, lets bring it back to where it started: Why are zombies so appealing?
Since Volume One came out, thats one of my most frequently asked questions. (Its kind of a curious question, as if theres some reason zombies shouldnt be popular. Do people ask NFL football players why football is so popular?)
I cant claim to know exactly why it is that people love zombies so much, but there are a number of common theories about their popularity.
Zombies are:
an enemy that used to be us, that we can become at any time;
a canvas writers can use to comment on almost anything;
a morality-free way to fulfill a world-destruction fantasy;
a monster that remains scary and cannot be easily romanticized.
Im sure thats all part of it, and we could continue to speculate ad nauseamIm sure there are dissertations being written on the subject as we speak. But one thing is clear: Zombies arent going to be dying off any time soon, and wed better learn how to live with them.
Alone, Together
By Robert Kirkman
Robert Kirkman is best-known for his work in the comics field as the writer and creator of the critically acclaimed, bestselling zombie comic The Walking Deadwhich is considered by many (myself included) to be one of the greatest comics series of all-time. Other comics hes written for include Invincible, Haunt, and The Astounding Wolf-Man. He has also worked on many Marvel titles, such as Marvel Zombies, Captain America, Ultimate X-Men, The Irredeemable Ant-Man, and Fantastic Four. Despite all of these writing credentials, this is his first piece of published prose fiction.
In The Walking Dead, Robert Kirkman set out to tell a different sort of zombie tale. Most such stories focus on a brief period of intense dangera single night, as in the original Night of the Living Deador perhaps a few days or weeks, and concern the characters eluding predators and obtaining the immediate exigencies of survivalfood, shelter, weapons.
The Walking Dead follows the characters for month after month after month in their grueling quest to stay alive and, more importantly, to stay sane. The stories present searing portraits of disaster psychologysurvivors guilt, depression, and hopelessness, as well as the grim humor and small acts of kindness that allow people to carry on. The zombies in this world are an ever-present threat, but for long stretches of the story they fade into the background and the emotional landscapes of the characters take center stage as they feud, break down, fall in love, lose heart, and ultimately endureor notfor this a gritty, realistic world where no one is safe. The characters learn the hard way that other survivors can be more dangerous than zombies, and that the most dangerous foe of all is your own heart.
Our first story shares this focus on human psychology. This is a zombie story and a love story, the story of an ordinary man in a terrible situation, and of the woman who just might be his only hope to make it out alive.
She was dressed like a private detective from a low-budget TV showa pair of slacks, modest high heels, and the most ridiculous trench coat Id ever seen, one of the shorter ones, that hung just above the knees. I couldnt help but laugh, and it was obvious my reaction annoyed her, but she did her best to hide her feelings as she pressed a finger to my lips, quieting me, and gently nudged me back inside my apartment.
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