History Is Dead: A Zombie Anthology
Our team of crack historians has uncovered the truth you never learned in school: the living dead have walked among us since the dawn of time. In this collection of gruesome tales from throughout the ages, the ravenous undead shamble through bloody battlefields, plague-ridden cities, genteel country estates, and dusty frontier towns. They emerge from foggy cemeteries, frozen barrows, loamy bogs, cursed mines, and gore-spattered operating rooms to prey on the living. But these zombies don’t just eat people. They help painters and writers save their faltering careers. They unwittingly push humankind on the quest for fire. They topple evil capitalists and their corporate empires. They fight crime. They fall in love. Join us on a journey into our zombie-filled past… Neither history nor the living dead have ever been this exciting!
A remarkable study of the zombie-condition traced back to its original vector, an infected mammoth, that unwittingly shambled across the primeval hunting grounds of our ancient ancestors and into infamy, History is Dead tracks mankind’s most gruesome affliction as it spreads, raising our dead across the continents, bridging cultures, and shedding light on ancient mysteries, like the Celtic peat bog-mummies in “The Gingerbread Man”, and crossing paths with iconic greatness, in “The Loaned Ranger” and “The Summer of 1816″. The zombie proves itself to be an effective weapon of war, in “The Barrow Maid”, as well as a lover worth dying for, in Carole Lanham’s wonderfully necrotic zombie-romance, “The Moribund Room”.
So meticulous and well researched that it’s more scary than funny. This book lays out everything you need to know to protect yourself from flesh-eating monsters’ – Esquire ‘A bloody-minded, straight laced manual for evading the grasp of the undead’ – Time Out ‘A tome you start reading for fun and then at page 50 you go out and buy a machete just to be on the safe side’ – New York Post ‘Ignorance is the undead’s strongest ally, knowledge their deadliest enemy. Personal choice, the will to live, must be paramount when the dead begin to rise. The choice is up to you.’
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