Book of the Dead

**SRP76** · 19-Sep-2007

It's old (I read it about 15 years ago), but great, if you can find it:

Book of the Dead, by John Skipp and Craig Spector.

If you happen to see this on a shelf, grab it!

This is a collection of 16 short stories, all related to the Romero-movie inspired world of the living dead.

In it, you will find even Stephen King makes a contribution, with "Home Delivery", about a pregnant woman dealing with the horror on a small island off the coast of Maine.

Also of note are "Jerry's Kids Meet Wormboy", about a man who has the perfect place to hide from the dead (a graveyard; why would they "home in" on a place they never went while alive?), "Like Pavlov's Dogs", a story about a team of scientists in a sealed "bio-sphere", trying to keep the zombie phenomenon outside the walls of their sealed environment, and "Choices", a first-person account of a lone man, surviving on the road during the entire nightmare.

If you like zombie flicks and so forth, you'll enjoy this book. There are a few crappy stories, but the top ones more than make up for it.

**ProfessorChaos** · 19-Sep-2007

and then check out book of the dead 2: still dead, then mondo zombie

all are pretty damn good

**SRP76** · 19-Sep-2007

I thought this thread got "lost". I tried to post this yesterday, but it got the "spam check delay". I figured it wouldn't appear.

I heard of the second book, but I never actually saw it anyplace.

What really sucks is that everything in the bookstores is "Fiction, by Author", so you have to sift through a ton of crap. And if you don't know the author, you're just SOL.

It would be so much better if they just grouped books by genre. Just head to the "zombie aisle", and you're set.

**ProfessorChaos** · 19-Sep-2007

or just go to ebay

**Danny** · 19-Sep-2007

wasnt home delivery turned into an animted movie by the same guys who do the hellboy cartoons?, what ever happened to that?

**jdog** · 20-Sep-2007

i have an original print copy of this and its awsome. some real good storys in there. get it if you dont have it already.

**SRP76** · 20-Sep-2007

My far-and-away favorite in that book was "Choices". "Like Pavlov's Dogs" runs second.

There were some horrible ones, though. "Bodies and Heads" and "Eat Me" are two that stand out as stories that I absolutely hated at the time.

**ProfessorChaos** · 20-Sep-2007

yeah, man...choices is hands-down the best of that book. glen vasey has another story in book 2, although i've forgotten the name of it. just as good as choices though. he's the master of living-dead related short-stories.