Zombies: Shambling Through the Ages by Steve Berman


Zombies: Shambling Through the Ages
Title : Zombies: Shambling Through the Ages
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ISBN : 1607013959
ISBN-10 : 9781607013952
Language : English
Format Type : Paperback
Number of Pages : 368
Publication : First published August 1, 2013

It's a wonder humanity ever survived into the twenty-first century. Even Neanderthals knew to bury the dead beneath stones to prevent corpses from rising. Ancient civilizations feared slain warriors would return from battlefields, medieval physicians worried that bodies would rise from plague pits, many cultures buried the dead at crossroads to prevent the dead from walking. In Zombies: Shambling Through the Ages, editor Steve Berman has collected stories that reveal the threat of revenants and the living dead is far from recent. From the Bronze Age to World War II, this anthology guides us through millennia of thrills, chills, kills, carnage, horror, and havoc wreaked throughout history by the walking dead.

Zombies: Shambling Through the Ages Reviews

  • H. Anne Stoj

    One of the best anthologies I've read in a while. The zombies were really just a secondary element, maybe a theme, that brings the stories together as a whole. Every story was compelling. There were some great flash pieces that really had emotional impact.

  • Anastasia Guiler

    Was not impressed with how many feminist figures somehow ended up being zombies in this book.
    One maybe but when you make a point of it, starts to get a little weird.

  • Aine

    Whew... It was work getting through this. The two stars are for the few stories that were awesome, in particular those by Elaine Pascale, Jonathan Maberry, Joe McKinney, Ed Kurtz and Stephen Graham Jones.

    Mostly, this was a weird jumble of a sub genre I was sick of a decade ago, and more than one story had detailed descriptions of children being raped and murdered, which is definitely not something I want to read about.