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• 1 • Introduction (The Living Dead) • (2008) • essay by John Joseph Adams
• 4 • This Year's Class Picture • (1992) • novelette by Dan Simmons
• 22 • Some Zombie Contingency Plans • (2005) • novelette by Kelly Link
• 39 • Death and Suffrage • (2002) • novelette by Dale Bailey
• 68 • Ghost Dance • (2003) • short story by Sherman Alexie
• 78 • Blossom • (1989) • short story by David J. Schow
• 83 • The Third Dead Body • (1993) • short story by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
• 98 • The Dead • (1996) • short story by Michael Swanwick
• 108 • The Dead Kid • (2002) • short story by Darrell Schweitzer
• 120 • Malthusian's Zombie • (2000) • novelette by Jeffrey Ford
• 137 • Beautiful Stuff • (2004) • short story by Susan Palwick
• 148 • Sex, Death and Starshine • (1984) • novelette by Clive Barker
• 180 • Stockholm Syndrome • (2007) • short story by David Tallerman
• 186 • Bobby Conroy Comes Back from the Dead • (2005) • short story by Joe Hill
• 202 • Those Who Seek Forgiveness • [Anita Blake] • (2006) • short story by Laurell K. Hamilton
• 211 • In Beauty, Like the Night • (1992) • short story by Norman Partridge
• 225 • Prairie • (1997) • short story by Brian Evenson
• 229 • Everything Is Better with Zombies • (2006) • short story by Hannah Wolf Bowen
• 236 • Home Delivery • [Little Tall Island / In the Path of the Eclipse] • (1989) • novelette by Stephen King
• 257 • Less Than Zombie • (1989) • short story by Douglas E. Winter
• 268 • Sparks Fly Upward • (2006) • short story by Lisa Morton
• 277 • Meathouse Man • [Corpse Handlers] • (1976) • novelette by George R. R. Martin
• 299 • Deadman's Road • [Reverend Jedidiah Mercer] • (2007) • novelette by Joe R. Lansdale
• 321 • The Skull-Faced Boy • [The Skull-Faced Boy • 1] • (2002) • short story by David Barr Kirtley
• 332 • The Age of Sorrow • (2007) • short story by Nancy Kilpatrick
• 345 • Bitter Grounds • (2003) • short story by Neil Gaiman
• 360 • She's Taking Her Tits to the Grave • (2008) • short story by Catherine Cheek
• 369 • Dead Like Me • (2000) • short story by Adam-Troy Castro
• 377 • Zora and the Zombie • (2004) • novelette by Andy Duncan
• 394 • Calcutta, Lord of Nerves • (1992) • short story by Poppy Z. Brite
• 405 • Followed • (2006) • short story by Will McIntosh
• 412 • The Song the Zombie Sang • (1970) • short story by Harlan Ellison and Robert Silverberg
• 423 • Passion Play • (1992) • short story by Nancy Holder
• 433 • Almost the Last Story by Almost the Last Man • (2007) • novelette by Scott Edelman
• 457 • How the Day Runs Down • (2008) • novelette by John Langan