Best New Zombie Tales (Vol. 2) [Paperback]

Mort Castle (Author), John Everson (Author), JW Schnarr (Author), James Roy Daley (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1, 2010

Want the Greatest Zombie Stories Ever Written?
BEST NEW ZOMBIE TALES (Vol. 2)
Over 100,000 words

Includes Amazing Fiction by:

Bram Stoker Award Winner, David Niall Wilson
British Fantasy Award Nominee, Rio Youers
Bram Stoker Award Nominee, Nate Kenyon
Multiple Award Winning Author, Cody Goodfellow
Authorlink New Author Award Winner, Tim Waggoner
George Turner Prize Nominee, Narrelle M. Harris
Bram Stoker Award Winner, John Everson
Pulitzer Prize, Bram Stoker Nominee, Mort Castle
And so much more...

~ "I'm proud to be a part of the Best New Zombie Tales series."
World Horror Grand Master, Multiple Award Winning Horror Legend, Ray Garton

James Roy Daley is doing a marvelous job with his Best New Zombie Tales series-- TERRIFIC! Bloody well done!"
New York Times bestseller Jonathan Maberry, author of PATIENT ZERO and ROT & RUIN

TOC:

Sleepwalk: The Deduction ~ ROBERT ELROD
Introduction ~ JAMES ROY DALEY
Bury Me Not ~ RIO YOUERS
Laundry Day ~ STEVEN A. ROMAN
Provider ~ TIM WAGGONER
The Truth About Brains ~ NARRELLE M. HARRIS
Gravedigger ~ NATE KENYON
Coming Home ~ DAVID NIALL WILSON
The Third Option ~ DEREK GUNN
The Worst Is Yet To Come ~ PETE MESLING
La Sequia ~ T. F. DAVENPORT
Viva Las Vegas ~ THOMAS ROCHE
’Til Decay Do Us Part ~ MYRRYM DAVIS
We Will Rebuild ~ CODY GOODFELLOW
Dredging Up The Dead ~ J. W. SCHNARR
Camille Smiled ~ JOHN EVERSON
Not With A Bang But A Whimper ~ MONICA J. O’ROURKE
Reunion ~ JAMES NEWMAN
Gran’ma’s in the Bathroom (…and she’s not coming out) ~ KEN GOLDMAN
The Old Man And The Dead ~ MORT CASTLE
The Finger ~ MATT HULTS

Editorial Reviews

Review

I haven't read a zombie anthology this good since Skipp and Spector's Book of the Dead; will not hesitate to say Daley owns zombie anthologies now. Seriously groundbreaking stuff. BNZT 2 sets the standard for zombie short stories. --PAPERBACK HORROR

Best New Zombie Tales 2 ~ Most Terrifying: The Worst is Yet to Come by Pete Mesling. Claustrophobic and terrifying, you'll be holding your breath until an army of dead boys welcomes Lyndon to the fold. --RUE MORGUE MAGAZINE

Best New Zombie Tales 2 ~ Goriest Gutmunching: Gravedigger by Nate Kenyon. Just try and read 'The sound of gristle tearing and ripping could be clearly heard from across the room' in context without crossing your legs.  --RUE MORGUE MAGAZINE

Best New Zombie Tales 2 ~ Freshest Tale: Dredging up the Dead by JW Schnarr. If there's another story that features a whale exhausting its own blood-drenched brains through its blowhole, I haven't read it.  --RUE MORGUE MAGAZINE

Best New Zombie Tales 2 ~ Strangest Infection: Gran'ma's in the Bathroom by Ken Goldman. A boy's grandmother is resurrected with the throne's life-renewing holy water after she dies on the toilet! --RUE MORGUE MAGAZINE

From the Author

From Ken Goldman's "Gran'ma's in The Bathroom (...and she's not coming out)" :

Gram's tongue was hanging out like some overheated dog's. Something was eating her from the inside, some filthy creatures that maybe started with her intestines then worked their way out to her flesh. Gram's flesh weren't all that attractive to begin with 'cause she was so old. But now her face resembled a wax candle already melted, and she had dozens of fresh wounds leaking this cheeze-like goo. Her nose and ears was oozing that stuff, and something black hung from her nose too. Then it moved and I saw it was this huge fly. It disappeared inside her nostril, and at that same moment another one flew out of her ear. A whole bunch of them lighted in her hair too. How so many got into our bathroom and inside Gram I haven't a clue. Maybe a whole nest of insects was crawling around inside her soul. 

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Product Details

• Paperback: 338 pages
• Publisher: Books of the Dead (August 1, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0986566411
• ISBN-13: 978-0986566417
• Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #91,379 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Another Great, Thoughtful and Scary Zombie Fiction Collection October 18, 2010

By Literate Zombie Fan

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I have also just reviewed Best New Zombie Tales #1, which is a great book. This is another highly-engaging page-turner, thoughtfully assembled and nicely put together. There is great variety-- some stories are really short, and some are much longer-- and in each case, the author used just the right amount of words to hit the intended effect. The stories once again cover a wide range of literary styles and points of view. Many of the authors are well known and already have stellar reputations, but some were new to me and I think we'll be hearing more about them in the near future-- if we make that far . . .

As in the first volume, Best New Zombie Tales #2 also includes a really cool graphic (in the sense of comic-book) story, and other surprising goodies integrated into the overall book that make this far more interesting than your usual anthology.

Editor (and respected author) James Roy Daley's introduction is a fictional, zany zombie classic (and extended in-joke for genre fans) in its own right. It continues from Best New Zombie Tales #1, and hopefully will keep going in his introduction to the forthcoming Best New Zombie Tales #3. Get this book if you love zombies or even just great horror stories. It's awesome.

Here's looking to more books from Books of the Dead Press. I have a feeling that these books will become landmark volumes in the zombie/horror genre.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant February 6, 2011

By KGNevels

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I can only hope there is a 3 in the making.
I literally could not put volumes 1 nor 2 down.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars More Terrific Tales of the Undead February 8, 2011

By SMcCaffery

Format:Paperback

James Roy Daley's follow-up volume of "best of" zombie fiction includes some terrific stories and talented authors, including Myrrym Davis, Mort Castle, Tim Waggoner, Matt Hults and Cody Goodfellow. There are a ton of zombie collections out there, but the level of consistent quality is very high with this volume. A very diverse grouping of stories.