Every year, WEIRDBOOK Magazine publishes a collection of short stories to thrill and delight readers worldwide. This year, we challenged authors to come up with memorable takes on the zombie theme, and the result is this fantastic collection of 34 original stories. Included are:

The Meddler, by Matthew John

Tiger Girls vs. the Zombies, by Lucy A. Snyder

Dead Between the Eyes, by Adrian Cole

Alive Again, by Franklyn Searight

The Night Hans Kroeger Came Back, by Kenneth Bykerk

The Marching Dead, by Andrew Darlington

I Wished for Zombies, by D.C. Lozar

O Mary Don’t You Mourn, by Mike Chinn

To Die, To Sleep, No More, by Erica Ruppert

Run, Monster, Run, by Teasha Seitz

Another Night in Bayou Sauvage, by Chad Hensley

Kifaro, by Dilman Dila

But I Love Him, by Scott Wheelock

Who Wants to Live Forever?, by Angela Yuriko Smith

The Dead Are Always Hungry, by Christopher Alex Ray

Zen Zombies, by R. A. Smith

Cassius Max, by KT Morley

A Nanotech Samsara, by J.N. Cameron

Pine in the Soul, by John Linwood Grant

“Welcome Home”, by Craig E. Sawyer

Papa Hanco, by Ed Reyes

They Shall Eat Dust, by Josh Reynolds

In Shadow Valley, by Nick Swain

Devil’s Bargain, by by J.F. Le Roux

Right for You Now, by Andrew Jennings

E’Zunguth, the Zombie God, by Maxwell I. Gold

Lazy River, by Kelly Piner

The New Human, by Shayne K. Keen

This Little Piggy, by EV Knight

Life Unworthy of Life, by Stephanie Ellis

More Blood, by Carson Ray

This Creeping Cold, by Kevin Rees

The Body I Used to Be, by Scott Edelman

Queen of Hearts, by S.E. Lindberg

Plus poetry by Ashley Dioses, Avra Margariti, Josh Maybrook, Darrell Schweitzer, Lori R. Lopez, Allan Rozinski, K.A. Opperman, Gregg Chamberlain, Robert Borski, David C. Kopaska-Merkel, Colleen Anderson, and David C. Kopaska-Merkel.