Introduction / John Joseph Adams This year's class picture / Dan Simmons Some zombie contingency plans / Kelly Link Death and suffrage / Dale Bailey Ghost dance / Sherman Alexie Blossom / David J. Schow The third dead body / Nina Kiriki Hoffman The dead / Michael Swanwick The dead kid / Darrell Schweitzer Malthusian's zombie / Jeffrey Ford Beautiful stuff / Susan Palwick Sex, death, and starshine / Clive Barker Stockholm syndrome / David Tallerman Bobby Conroy comes back from the dead / Joe Hill Those who seek forgiveness / Laurell K. Hamilton In beauty, like the night / Norman Partridge Prairie / Brian Evenson Everything is better with zombies / Hannah Wolf Bowen Home delivery / Stephen King Less than zombie / Douglas E. Winter Sparks fly upward / Lisa Morton Meathouse man / George R.R. Martin Deadman's road / Joe R. Lansdale The skull-faced boy / David Barr Kirtley The age of sorrow / Nancy Kilpatrick Bitter grounds / Neil Gaiman She's taking her tits to the grave / Catherine Cheek Dead like me / Adam-Troy Castro Zora and the zombie / Andy Duncan Calcutta, lord of nerves / Poppy Z. Brite Followed / Will McIntosh The song the zombie sang / Harlan Ellison and Robert Silverberg Passion play / Nancy Holder Almost the last story by almost the last man / Scott Edelman How the day runs down / John Langan