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For decades we’ve had vampires, werewolves, Jason, Freddy, and Michael. And now zombies have gone all Hollywood.
Out of a need to figure out what is the next classic monster, publisher and lifelong horror enthusiast Gerald Dean Rice has assembled this fresh and downright disturbing collection of short stories featuring some of the most clever and imaginative horror writers ...more
Out of a need to figure out what is the next classic monster, publisher and lifelong horror enthusiast Gerald Dean Rice has assembled this fresh and downright disturbing collection of short stories featuring some of the most clever and imaginative horror writers ...more
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Kindle Edition, 192 pages
Published
May 26th 2015
by Atria Books
(first published May 2015)
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This is an anthology that sticks to it's theme very well. I think from a literary perspective it's doing many things very well and I can understand why certain stories were chosen even when they seem a little out of left field.
This is not just an anthology of stories about creatures being in the place of zombies, but a series of stories that work counter to nearly every trope associated with zombies. The stories are not just challenging in the sense of playing counter to shambling corpses (thoug ...more
This is not just an anthology of stories about creatures being in the place of zombies, but a series of stories that work counter to nearly every trope associated with zombies. The stories are not just challenging in the sense of playing counter to shambling corpses (thoug ...more

I love short horror stories. It's the perfect medium for good scare. Or even better a good scare with a laugh. This anthology was an excellent example of that. These stories were scary, smart, funny, and totally enjoyable. I was going to get this book 4/5 because while I loved the anthology it wasn't perfect BUT Jeff Strand's story about sentinel cherry pop is worth an extra star. I had tears running down my face from laughing so hard when I was reading it.
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This was a great collection of stories! For my full take, go here: Anything But Zombies
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