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Horror

The Living Dead

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  • 2008 first published
  • 487 pages
  • 2 editions
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John Joseph Adams, Dan Simmons and Kelly Link's The Living Dead (2008) is a horror novel. Much of the action takes place in Gennesault and Maine. It features Maddie Pace and Frank Daggett. Key subjects include zombies, fishing boats, Wormwood and ozone layer.

21 Open Library readers have it on their want-to-read list.

It runs to roughly 487 pages — 8–9 hours of reading at an average pace.

About The Living Dead

Contains: 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](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19650837W) / 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.
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Themes, setting & tropes

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Setting

  • Maine
  • Gennesault
  • south pole

Characters

  • Maddie Pace
  • Frank Daggett

Subjects

  • Zombies
  • Horror tales
  • Horror stories
  • Horror fiction
  • Fishing boats
  • Wormwood
  • Ozone layer
  • Zombie apocalypse
  • Fantasy fiction

Quick answers

Who wrote The Living Dead?

The Living Dead was written by John Joseph Adams, Dan Simmons and Kelly Link and first published in 2008.

What genre is The Living Dead?

It is usually shelved as Horror.

How long is The Living Dead?

The median edition has 487 pages, about 8–9 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to The Living Dead?

Readers who like it often enjoy Book of the Dead, Zombies! Zombies! Zombies! and Cell.

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