Nights of the Living Dead: An Anthology

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It all started in 1968 on that dreadful night in a remote farmhouse... the world experienced a brand-new kind of terror with the debut of George A. Romero's landmark film Night of the Living Dead. The newly dead rose to attack the living, not as vampires or werewolves, but as something new and terrifying. Since then, zombies have invaded every aspect of popular culture. Nights of the Living Dead returns to that night when it all began. New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry teamed up with Romero, the godfather of the living dead, to present a collection of all-new tales set during the forty-eight hours of that legendary outbreak. In addition to original stories by Romero and Maberry themselves, this anthology includes stories by some of today's most important writers: Joe R. Lansdale, Mike Carey, Brian Keene, Carrie Ryan, Chuck Wendig, Craig E. Engler, David J. Schow, David Wellington, Isaac Marion, Jay Bonansinga, John A. Russo, John Skipp, Keith R.A. DeCandido, Max Brallier, Mira Grant, Neal and Brenda Shusterman, and Ryan Brown. An instant classic that belongs on the shelves of every horror and sci fi reader.

JONATHAN MABERRY is a New York Times best-selling and five-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author, anthology editor, comic book writer, and much more. He has published over a hundred short stories in a variety of genres and is a jurist for the Edgar, Stoker, and Scribe Awards. Visit his website jonathanmaberry.com GEORGE A. ROMERO (February 4, 1940 - July 16, 2017) was an American-Canadian filmmaker, writer and editor, best known for his series of gruesome and satirical horror films about an imagined zombie apocalypse, beginning in 1968 with Night of the Living Dead, considered a progenitor of the fictional zombie of modern culture.

`There would be no Walking Dead, Resident Evil, World War Z, Zombieland, etc. without Romero and his immeasurable contributions to the genre' Tony Timpone Editor Emeritus, Fangoria 'Night Of The Living Dead didn't just invent the zombie genre... it established that genre's most significant theme: that we, humanity, are more dangerous than the undead' Christos Gage, New York Times bestselling writer of comics Buffy and Spider-Man `The zombie phenomena scratched its way out of the grave in Romero's Night of the Living Dead and now he is surrounded by his [progeny]... to give the living dead another night in which to scare the bejeezus out of all of us' Chris Ryall, creative director for IDW Comics, author of Zombies vs Robots