Nights of the Living Dead: An Anthology

Many of the stories in this book, including one's by Jonathan Maberry and George Romero himself, are set either as the Outbreak which leads to "Night" begins, or "at some point around "Dawn" and "Day". One direct follow-on see's how the pilot and soldier who attempt to escape "Dawn" succeed or fail. Another see's what happened to the people who didn't get on the helicopter which the news team escapes in in "Dawn". One story explores a possible origin for what happened when a NASA mission goes very wrong and a satellite registers an impact and then a fast-developing mass INSIDE it on it's way back to Earth. The military want to blow it up, NASA wants to see what it is, people have guns and no idea what's happening before the whole worlds starts to go cold... Jonathan Maberry has Joe Ledger and his top team, 15 years later, caught out-of-country when the whole world changes overnight. The mission is relatively simple: rescue the President from an Infected-overrun city. The problem? Even Ledger and his team are in over their heads on this one... If you like zombies stories, you'll love this.

Don't normally go in for short horror stories,as soon you get into them they finish abruptly. But in this case you know the background and the world they're set making the book run seamlessly and satisfying. All the stories do the concept of the movies credit and hopefully there'll be similar follow ups

What an amazing collection of zombie stories by some the best horror authors. I enjoyed all the stories tremendously but loved the follow up story to Night of the Living Dead. This is definitely a must read for anyone who loves the zombie/horror genre. A big thumbs up to the all the authors who contributed to this book.

I loved it

So freaking close to five stars....Anthologies are weird creatures to me. I never expect to love more than half the stories in any anthology, yet I still buy them. This one, with George Romero attached, I had very high hopes for.These stories were supposed to build off of Romero's original zombie movie, "Night of the Living Dead." There was some wiggle room (i.e., it didn't have to take place in 1968) which for the most part worked.There were only two stories that I actively disliked, and both were by highly respected zombie writers. One seemed to forget the cardinal rule of people with brain damage can't actually become zombies. The other just felt like it was written for a school project.Every other story, tho, was easily 4-5 stars.My favorites were:"A Dead Girl Named Sue," "Orbital Decay" and "Deadliners."