The Mammoth Book of Zombie Apocalypse Author:Stephen Jones (Editor) The end of the world - with glesh-eating zombies! — In the near future, a desperate and evermore controlling UK government attempts to restore a sense of national pride with a New Festival of Britain. But construction work on the site of an old church in south London releases a centuries-old plague that turns its victims into flesh-hungry g... more »houls whose bite or scratch passes the contagion-a supernatural virus which has the power to revive the dead - on to others.
"The Death" soon sweeps across London and the whole country descends into chaos. When a drastic attempt to eradicate the outbreak at source fails, the plague spreads quickly to mainland Europe and then across the rest of the world.
Told through a series of interconnected eyewitness narratives- text messages, e-mails, blogs, letters, diaries, and transcripts- this is an epic story of a world plunged into chaos as the dead battle the living for total domination.
Will humanity triumph over the worldwide zombie plague, or will the walking dead inherit the Earth?
Contains:
Things past / Michael Marshall Smith --
Internal communications #1 / Mandy Slater --
Dead ground zero / Christopher Fowler --
Internal communications #2 / Mandy Slater --
Special powers / Paul Finch --
Internal communications #3 / Mandy Slater --
Diary entry #1 / Sarah Pinborough --
Internal communications #4 / Mandy Slater --
Dead Di and the Zombie King / Jo Fletcher --
Internal communications #5 / Mandy Slater --
Rings around the roses / John Llewellyn--
Internal communications #6 / Mandy Slater --
Tweets of the dead / Jay Russell --
Automated reply / Mandy Slater --
Diary entry #2 / Sarah Pinborough--
Emergency service #1 / Mandy Slater--
Minutes of the meeting / Kim Newman --
They're coming to get you! / Lisa Morton --
Emergency service #2 / Mandy Slater --
Letters from a tower / Tanith Lee --
News front page #1 / Mandy Slater --
The treatment / Paul McAuley --
News front page #2 / Mandy Slater --
Diary entry #3 / Sarah Pinborough --
Dead link / Mandy Slater --
Paster Pat on the 700 Club / Kim Newman --
Zmbs / Tim Lebbon --
Newsflash / Peter Crowther --
Wasting Matilda / Robert Hood --
Webcam exchange / Peter Crowther --
We'll take Manhattan / Pat Cadigan --
The longest distance between two places by Will Halloway / Peter Crowther --
The reign of Santa Muerte / Mark Samuels --
The show must go on / Peter Atkins --
Zombie novelty tracks / Kim Newman --
Are we not a new people? / Scott Edelman --
Epilogue: The Queen's Christmas speech / Kim Newman« less