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Book Of The
Dead

Terrifying All-Original Fiction By
STEPHEN KING
ROBERT McCAMMON
RAMSEY CAMPBELL
And Others

Edited By
JOHN SKIPP & CRAIG SPECTOR
Foreword By George R. Romero



BOOK OF THE DEAD

You hold in your hands what is perhaps the most explicit and overt anthology of original horror fiction ever assembled.

Each of the stories in this anthology is set in a world where the dead have risen to eat the living, and each author has his own intimate vision of what those days will be like: in the brilliant and caustic “On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert with Dead Folks,” Joe R. Lansdale spins what should be a traditional western yarn about a lawman tracking a badman—the deadly dead, however, give that tradition a special twist; Stephen King’s pregnant heroine in “Home Delivery” learns the exorbitant price of survival and of patience; Robert R. McCammon’s “Eat Me” answers all the questions about love among the newly risen; and Douglas E. Winter’s “Less Than Zombie” allows us a very unhealthy peek at the pampered, exclusive, and totally lifeless life-styles of the rich and famous.

Together these stories are a stream of timeless, mind-blowing spike points by some of the most talented, savage, and unique imaginations writing fiction today.

This is a book filled with flaming, frozen moments of dread and wonder you will never in a million years forget.

This is a book that goes too far.
And invites you along for the ride.


RESURRECTION!

The last of the five girls didn’t look peeled, she looked burnt. She bore only a rough resemblance to a human being. She might have been shaped out of mud by a dim-witted child who gave her no fingers or toes or breasts, and poked fingers into the mud to make her eyes. Her crust made papery, crackling sounds as she shuffled past the fire, and pieces flaked off.
A motley crew, thought the girl cuffed to the limb.
She wondered if any of them would have enough sense to find the key and unlock the handcuffs.
She doubted it.
In fact, they didn’t seem to be aware of her presence at all.
Whatever else they might be, they were the victims of the Reaper.
—From “Mess Hall” by Richard Laymon


Bantam Books by John Skipp and Craig Spector:

THE LIGHT AT THE END
THE CLEANUP
THE SCREAM
DEADLINES



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