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Mondo Zombie
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Product Details:
Author:
John Skipp
Hardcover:
497 pages
Publisher:
Cemetery Dance
Publications
(June 30, 2006)
Language:
English
ISBN-10:
1587670402
ISBN-13:
978-1587670404
Product Dimensions:
9.1 x
6.2
x 1.6 inches
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Synopsis:
Zombies movies are hot now, what with Shaun of the
Dead, The Corpse Bride, and zombie classic Night of the Living Dead's
only begetter George A. Romero's first new dead flick in 20-plus
years, Land of the Dead. Zombie fiction's burgeoning, too. The stuff
overrelies on a single, familiar plot, though. A plague of undead
hits, resulting in apocalypse. The living are hunted, and things
usually don't end well. Undead yarns work best when the "rules" (e.g.,
zombies are basically dumb, slow, and hungry) are broken, as many of
editor Skipp's selections attest. In "Maternal Instinct," Robert Bloch
innovatively imagines two types of walking dead: Type B is
run-of-the-mill, long dead, and decaying; Type A is freshly deceased
and talks, thinks, and holds public office. In the cinematic
"Connections," Simon McCaffery offers a new twist on gated
communities, and Ian McDowell's "Dead Loves" must be the most
disturbingly wonderful story to feature a dead Dolly Parton. Not every
entry here's a winner, but horror fans really should delve into this
collection
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