Celebrating the strange and unusual, some of the best-known authors of the fantastic and the horrific explore the myths and legends surrounding a creature both dead and the undead — the zombie!

From Anne Rice's chilling portrait of a woman more dead than alive to Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's future where nobody dies forever, from Nina Kirki Hoffman's powerful story of the dead returned for love to Gene Wolfe's tale of computer-driven corpses, The Ultimate Undead feature spectacular zombie stories of the modern ages.