The Mammoth Book of Zombies

I'm a sucker for any and all things Zombie, but most of the stories in this book didn't really do it for me. There were offerings from classic authors such as Edgar Allen Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, and those were quite good. But the copyrights have also run out on those works, so they're available anywhere. What I wanted were more original, more recent tales, modern tales of zombie horror. The zombie apocalypse never happened, and I felt somehow gypped. In my opinion, the All Flesh Must Be Eaten anthologies were much better tales for zombie horror.

To be sure there were some bright spots. The stories from Clive Barker, Karl Edward Wagner, Peter Tremayne, Robert Bloch, and Joe R. Lansdale were quite good. But this was a short story anthology, and the rest of the stories weren't of as high a caliber as the aforementioned authors. Taking into account the book's content as a whole, I had to give it 3.5 stars. ( )

Fairly obvious what this is about, and is an anthology of the very old, and the very new at the time, as there are several stories that were originals to this anthology. A very brief intro by Jones.

A good effort, at 3.52.

Mammoth Book Of Zombies : Sex Death and Starshine - Clive Barker
Mammoth Book Of Zombies : Rising Generation - Ramsey Campbell
Mammoth Book Of Zombies : The Song of the Slaves - Manly Wade Wellman
Mammoth Book Of Zombies : The Ghouls - R. Chetwynd-Hayes
Mammoth Book Of Zombies : The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar - Edgar Allan Poe
Mammoth Book Of Zombies : Sticks - Karl Edward Wagner
Mammoth Book Of Zombies : Quietly Now - Charles L. Grant
Mammoth Book Of Zombies : The Grey House - Basil Copper
Mammoth Book Of Zombies : A Warning to the Curious - M. R. James
Mammoth Book Of Zombies : The Crucian Pit - Nicholas Royle
Mammoth Book Of Zombies : The Disapproval of Jeremy Cleave - Brian Lumley
Mammoth Book Of Zombies : Herbert West—Reanimator - H. P. Lovecraft
Mammoth Book Of Zombies : Treading the Maze - Lisa Tuttle
Mammoth Book Of Zombies : Out of Corruption - David Riley
Mammoth Book Of Zombies : The Taking of Mr. Bill - Graham Masterton
Mammoth Book Of Zombies : Schalken the Painter - J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Mammoth Book Of Zombies : Clinically Dead - David Sutton
Mammoth Book Of Zombies : They're Coming for You - Les Daniels
Mammoth Book Of Zombies : Mission to Margal - Hugh B. Cave
Mammoth Book Of Zombies : Later - Michael Marshall Smith
Mammoth Book Of Zombies : Marbh Bheo - Peter Tremayne
Mammoth Book Of Zombies : The Blood Kiss - Dennis Etchison
Mammoth Book Of Zombies : Night After Night of the Living Dead - Christopher Fowler
Mammoth Book Of Zombies : The Dead Don't Die! - Robert Bloch
Mammoth Book Of Zombies : Patricia’s Profession - Kim Newman
Mammoth Book Of Zombies : On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert with Dead Folks - Joe R. Lansdale

Undead theatre.

4 out of 5

Not a kid zombie game.

3 out of 5

Davy Jones zombie collar.

3.5 out of 5

Zombie Unit.

3.5 out of 5

Sleep death speech liquidity.

4 out of 5

Who knows what evil lurks in the heart of the Old Ones? Kent Allard's nephew!

4 out of 5

Not a vampire, more like a zombie.

3.5 out of 5

Bride of Croth disposal.

3 out of 5

Made tracks.

3 out of 5

Recovering the first one.

3.5 out of 5

Eye spy various body parts, dear.

4 out of 5

Fresh bodies needed for zombie study? Find a great war.

4 out of 5

Zombied me bloke.

3 out of 5

The thing in the cellar might have got him.

3.5 out of 5

Peter Pan, zombie kid nicker.

3.5 out of 5

Lost Rose.

3 out of 5

No point being in hospital like this, mum.

3.5 out of 5

Adultery knifing failure zombie shag.

3.5 out of 5

I'm not a zombie, mum.

3.5 out of 5

Dig Up Her Grave.

3.5 out of 5

Zombie famine revenge.

4 out of 5

Zombie movie shots.

2.5 out of 5

Zombie tedium.

3 out of 5

Farewell card party extension.

4 out of 5

Killergram.

3.5 out of 5

The Order of zombie research.

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