Zombie Fiction Database

If you'd like to make a recommendation, navigate to the "New" tab and fill out the appropriate fields. To browse the database, navigate to the "All" tab and scroll through the listings.  

The purpose of this project is to solicit recommendations of zombie stories from readers and writers of zombie fiction, to assist me in selecting the contents of a reprint anthology I'm assembling. Suggestions of short fiction are obviously my primary interest, but feel free to suggest novels as well, as I plan to include a "For Further Reading" appendix in the anthology. If you're a writer, you're welcome to recommend your own work as well as that of others. Writers may also feel free to contact me via email at johnjosephadams[at]gmail.com if you'd like to send me a copy of your story.

Enter as much information about the work as you know. If all you know is the author and title, that's fine. When denoting the length of the story, if you don't know if it's a novella, novelette, or short story, just mark short fiction (this being the generic catch-all for those three categories).

I've inserted a few entries in the database myself to serve as examples. If you have any questions about using the database, please don't hesitate to contact me at johnjosephadams[at]gmail.com.

Here's a bit of information about me: 

John Joseph Adams is the assistant editor at The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and is the editor of the anthology Wastelands (Night Shade Books).

He is also a freelance writer, whose work has appeared in: Amazing Stories, The Internet Review of Science Fiction, Kirkus, Locus Magazine, Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, Novel & Short Story Writers Market, Publishers Weekly, Science Fiction Weekly, SFWA Bulletin, Shimmer, Strange Horizons, Subterranean Magazine, and Writer's Digest. In addition to his freelance work, he is currently the print news correspondent for SCI FI Wire, the news service of the SCI FI Channel. For more information, visit his web site.

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Title Author Publication/Publisher Pub Date Length Recommended by Notes Death and Suffrage Dale Bailey F&SF Feb. 2002 short fiction John Joseph Adams zombies rise from the dead to vote, Winner of IGH Award. Monster Island Dave Wellington Thunder's Mouth Press 2006 novel JJA NYC zombie novel Home Delivery Stephen King Book of the Dead (anthology) 1989 short fiction JJA   Prairie Brian Evenson     short fiction     A Little Night Music Lucius Shepard Beast of the Heartland and Other Stories 1997 short fiction John Langan Can't lay my hands on the original pub. info right now... Dating Secrets of the Dead David Prill The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction 2003? short fiction John Langan   A Sad Last Love at the Diner of the Damned Ed Bryant The Book of the Dead 1989 short fiction John Langan   Less than Zombie Douglas Winter The Book of the Dead 1989 short fiction John Langan   The Damnation Game Clive Barker   1987? novel John Langan One of the first and best treatments of the post-Romero zombie at novel length Bitter Grounds Neil Gaiman Mojo: Conjure Stories 2003 short fiction John Langan   Zora and the Zombie Andy Duncan SCIFICTION? 200? short fiction John Langan Gaah--sorry I can't remember more about this one! On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert with Dead Follks Joe Lansdale The Book 1989 short fiction John Langan Maybe too long for the anthology, but a great read Everything's Better with Zombies Hannah Wolfe Bowen Phantom 0 (Prime Books) Fall 2006 short fiction John Langan   Dead Earth: The Green Dawn Mark Justice and David T. Wilbanks PS Publishing 2007 short fiction   http://www.pspublishing.co.uk/cat/detgd.asp Patient Zero Jonathan Maberry St. Martins   novel   a police detective working to stop a plague turning people into zombies Stockholm Syndrome David Tallerman Pseudopod June 29th, 2007 short fiction Dave Kirtley   The Skull-Faced Boy David Barr Kirtley Gothic.net 2002 short fiction     Goddamn Redneck Surfer Zombies Michael Jasper The Book of More Flesh October 2002 short fiction Jason Erik Lundberg   The Naming of Parts Tim Lebbon Liesure   short fiction johng Novella from his Fears Unnamed collection. The Ethical Treatment of Meat Claude Lalumière The Book of More Flesh October 2002 short story Claude Lalumière