Mondo Zombie

Mondo Zombie edited by John Skipp illustrated by Alan M. Clark Welcome to Mondo Zombie! This is the legendary, long-lost anthology that living dead lovers have been waiting for. If you like: • samurai zombies • wrestling chainsaw zombies • political zombies • sex with zombies • heartbreaking zombies • hardcore zombies • celebrity zombies • wannabe zombies • zombies in love • zombies in pieces • zombies in power, over a world turned to dust... ...then treat yourself to this titanic time-capsule of flesh-eating, apocalyptic terror. Brought to you by some of the finest minds ever to dream the dark fantastic. Mondo Zombie It’s horror with teeth. And a hunger. Just for you.

From Publishers Weekly

Like Book of the Dead (1989) and Book of the Dead 2 (1992), which Skipp co-edited with Craig Spector, this uneven anthology of 27 zombie stories takes as its starting point the premise of George Romero's Night of the Living Dead, the classic horror film about a world overrun by armies of the flesh-eating living dead. The book offers a few genuine treats, including the late Robert Bloch's "Maternal Instinct," a black comedy of zombie shenanigans in Washington, D.C., and Douglas E. Winter's deadpan critique of life and art, "The Zombies of Madison County." Jack Ketchum is doubly represented with "The Visitor" and "Twins," in which the zombie holocaust is just a thread in the fabric of the larger human dramas they unfold. Unfortunately, because this volume has been delayed for 10 years, many of its stories come off as unoriginal or derivative. Most of the contributors try to overcome the limitations of their theme either by ratcheting up the gore and mayhem or indulging in outrageous frat-boy humor. (Mar.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

From Booklist

Zombies movies are hot now, what with Shaun of the Dead, The Corpse Bride, and zombie classic Night of the Living Dead's only begetter George A. Romero's first new dead flick in 20-plus years, Land of the Dead. Zombie fiction's burgeoning, too. The stuff overrelies on a single, familiar plot, though. A plague of undead hits, resulting in apocalypse. The living are hunted, and things usually don't end well. Undead yarns work best when the "rules" (e.g., zombies are basically dumb, slow, and hungry) are broken, as many of editor Skipp's selections attest. In "Maternal Instinct," Robert Bloch innovatively imagines two types of walking dead: Type B is run-of-the-mill, long dead, and decaying; Type A is freshly deceased and talks, thinks, and holds public office. In the cinematic "Connections," Simon McCaffery offers a new twist on gated communities, and Ian McDowell's "Dead Loves" must be the most disturbingly wonderful story to feature a dead Dolly Parton. Not every entry here's a winner, but horror fans really should delve into this collection. Carlos OrellanaCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved

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