History Is Dead: A Zombie Anthology
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Editor: Kim PaffenrothEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-12-01
ISBN: 0978970799
Number of pages: 300
Publisher: Permuted Press
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Book Review: Many Authors + One book = Great Stuff? what a Rare Gem, indeed.
Summary: 5 Stars
Normally I shy away from collected works by many authors because the editors normally get sloppy. You normally end up with 30-40% goodness in a collection and, sadly, you pay for the other 60%. Still, Kim Paffenroth is someone I trust when it comes to the undead, and the trust placed here was well-founded. Paffenroth is a great writer anyhow, having done some great work on his own, and a good writer can normally spot good reading. This was the case in History is Dead, with Paffenroth rewarding the reader with almost all good stuff - maybe one or two stories could have been better, but how often can you say something like that?
As the title implies, this is a book that adds the dead into historical themes. It does not utilize all the same set-ups, however, and rewards the reader who rewards themselves by checking out each story with patience. While all of the stories play off of some historical angle each has something different to offer, and that difference is what makes this collection a "boom" instead of the aforementioned busts that all-too-often creep into our reading. The Wild West and the undead - good stuff. The Great Wars and the undead - good stuff. The past and the undead - good stuff. Instead of having distinct advantages against the undead, some stories dead with people like cavemen and infected prey that causes them to become the first recorded zombies, thus giving the reader an angle that really is sexy.
And I liked that, too, because zombies need a bit of difference added to their flesh-mawing ways. Too often they are utilized in the same fashion, and that does a disservice to the ranks of the undead (not that having zombies do the normal zombie stuff is bad, mind you, but creativity should be applauded). The past is also ignored, a no-no when it comes to something interesting like zombies and timeframes that exist all over the proverbial map.
So, should you read this? Well, if you enjoy zombies, need something different, and want to have fun, then yes. Paffenroth has assembled a sexy little army of zombies and that it good stuff that is well worth picking up.
Recommended.
Summary of History Is Dead: A Zombie Anthology
Our team of crack historians has uncovered the truth you never learned in school: the living dead have walked among us since the dawn of time. In this collection of gruesome tales from throughout the ages, the ravenous undead shamble through bloody battlefields, plague-ridden cities, genteel country estates, and dusty frontier towns. They emerge from foggy cemeteries, frozen barrows, loamy bogs, cursed mines, and gore-spattered operating rooms to prey on the living. But these zombies don't just eat people. They help painters and writers save their faltering careers. They unwittingly push humankind on the quest for fire. They topple evil capitalists and their corporate empires. They fight crime. They fall in love. Join us on a journey into our zombie-filled past... Neither history nor the living dead have ever been this exciting!Horror Books
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