I'm a sucker for any and all things Zombie, but most of the stories in this book didn't really do it for me. There were offerings from classic authors such as Edgar Allen Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, and those were quite good. But the copyrights have also run out on those works, so they're available anywhere. What I wanted were more original, more recent tales, modern tales of zombie horror. The zombie apocalypse never happened, and I felt somehow gypped. In my opinion, the All Flesh Must Be Eaten anthologies were much better tales for zombie horror.

To be sure there were some bright spots. The stories from Clive Barker, Karl Edward Wagner, Peter Tremayne, Robert Bloch, and Joe R. Lansdale were quite good. But this was a short story anthology, and the rest of the stories weren't of as high a caliber as the aforementioned authors. Taking into account the book's content as a whole, I had to give it 3.5 stars. ( )