Nights of the Living Dead - An Anthology edited by Jonathon Maberry and George Romero

Editors: Jonathon Maberry & George A. Romero
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Date of publication: July 2017

In 1968 the world experienced a brand new kind of terror with the debut of George A. Romero's landmark movie Night of the Living Dead. The newly dead rose to attack the living. Not as vampires or werewolves. This was something new...and terrifying. Since then, zombies have invaded every aspect of popular culture.

But it all started on that dreadful night in a remote farmhouse...

Nights of the Living Dead returns to that night, to the outbreak, to where it all began. New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry teams with the godfather of the living dead himself, George A. Romero to present a collection of all new tales set during the 48 hours of that legendary outbreak.

Nights of the Living Dead includes stories by some of today's most important writers: Brian Keene, Carrie Ryan, Chuck Wendig, Craig Engler, David J. Schow, David Wellington, Issac Marion, Jay Bonansinga, Joe R. Lansdale, John Russo, John Skipp, Keith R.A. DeCandido, Max Brallier, Mike Carey, Mira Grant, Neal Shusterman & Brandon Shusterman, and Ryan Brown. Plus original stories by Romero and Maberry!

In general, I'm not usually a zombie story fan.  Even  watching the movies, I have a hard time with because I don't like the lack of hopefulness.  However, when I saw this come up on my library's Overdrive site, I figured I'd give it a shot.  I like a lot of the authors in the anthology and I figured there had to be at least one good story.  

I was pleasantly surprised as to how much I enjoyed this set of zombie tales.  While I didn't love all of them, there really wasn't any one tale that I hated.  Among my favorites were "A Dead Girl Named Sue" by Craig E Engler, and  "The Girl on the Table" by Isaac Marion.  The editor, Jonathon Maberry's story, "Lone Gunman" was the creepiest of the lot.  The one that stuck in my mind the most was "You Can Stay All Day" by Mira Grant.  It was the most heartbreaking of them all.  

I highly recommend this anthology.  There is something here for everyone.  The various narrators were wonderful. Listening to it has almost made me want to seek out some more zombie tales.