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Acknowledgments




Many thanks to the following:

Jeremy Lassen and Jason Williams at Night Shade Books, for letting me edit all these anthologies and for doing such a kick-ass job publishing them. Also, to Ross Lockhart and Michael Lee at Night Shade for all they do behind-the-scenes, and to Marty Halpern for his copyediting prowess.

David Palumbo, for yet another fantastic cover. 

Gordon Van Gelder, who first infected me with the editorial bug, and made me into the zombie editor I am today. 

My former agent Jenny Rappaport, for helping me launch my anthology career. Enjoy retirement!

David Barr Kirtley for his assistance wrangling the header notes. All the clever things in the header notes are all his work. Anything lame you came across is mine. 

Rebecca McNulty, for her various and valuable interning assistance—reading, scanning, transcribing, proofing, doing most of the work but getting none of the credit as all good interns do. 

Christie Yant, my self-described “minion,” for her friendship and her tireless devotion to making my life easier.

My mom, for the usual reasons. 

All of the other kindly folks who assisted me in some way during the editorial process: Charlie Campbell, Ellen Datlow, Pablo Defendini, Diana Fox, Regina Glei, Susan Marie Groppi, Wake Lankard, Seanan McGuire, Tom Piccirilli, Julia & R. J. Sevin, Patrick Swenson, Jeremiah Tolbert, Ryan West, Renee Zuckerbrot, and to everyone else who helped out in some way that I neglected to mention (and to you folks, I apologize!).

The NYC Geek Posse—consisting of Robert Bland, Desirina Boskovich, Christopher M. Cevasco, Douglas E. Cohen, Jordan Hamessley, Andrea Kail, and Matt London, (plus Dave Kirtley, who I mentioned above, and the NYCGP Auxiliary)—for giving me an excuse to come out of my editorial cave once in a while.

The readers and reviewers who loved my other anthologies, making it possible for me to do more.

And last, but certainly not least: a big thanks to all of the authors who appear in this anthology.



Acknowledgment is made for permission to print the following material:


“Rural Dead” by Bret Hammond. © 2008 Bret Hammond. Originally published in Tales of the Zombie War. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Skull-Faced City” by David Barr Kirtley. © 2010 David Barr Kirtley.

“Mouja” by Matt London. © 2010 Matt London.

“Who We Used to Be” by David Moody. © 2010 David Moody.

“Flotsam & Jetsam” by Carrie Ryan. © 2010 Carrie Ryan.

“The Days of Flaming Motorcycles” by Catherynne M. Valente. © 2010 Catherynne M. Valente. Originally published in Dark Faith. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“And the Next, and the Next ” by Genevieve Valentine. © 2010 Genevieve Valentine.

“Obedience” by Brenna Yovanoff © 2009 Brenna Yovanoff. Originally published in Strange Horizons. Reprinted by permission of the author.



Buy This Book


If you enjoyed the stories in this The Living Dead 2 sampler, be sure

to check out the rest of the anthology, which in total features

44 stories and includes stories from Kelley Armstrong, Max Brooks, 

S. G. Browne, Simon R. Green, Robert Kirkman, Jonathan Maberry, 

Cherie Priest, Carrie Ryan, John Skipp, David Wellington, and many more.


To purchase the anthology, please visit www.nightshadebooks.com

or your favorite local or online retailer. An e-book is available

www.webscription.net.


Be sure to also check out these other John Joseph Adams titles

currently available from Night Shade Books:


Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse

trade paperback / ISBN 978-1-59780-105-8 / $15.95 / Jan. 2008

www.johnjosephadams.com/wastelands


The Living Dead

trade paperback / ISBN 978-1-59780-143-0 / $15.95 / Sep. 2008

www.johnjosephadams.com/the-living-dead


The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

trade paperback / ISBN 978-1-59780-160-7 / $15.95 / Sep. 2009

www.johnjosephadams.com/sherlock-holmes


By Blood We Live

trade paperback / ISBN 978-1-59780-156-0 / $15.95 / June 2009

http://www.johnjosephadams.com/by-blood-we-live/



John Joseph Adams (www.johnjosephadams.com) is the bestselling editor of many anthologies, such as Wastelands, The Living Dead (a World Fantasy Award finalist), Seeds of Change, By Blood We Live, Federations, and The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Future projects include The Way of the Wizard, The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination, Brave New Worlds, and The Book of Cthulhu. 


John is also the fiction editor of the online science fiction magazine Lightspeed (www.lightspeedmagazine.com). Prior to taking on that role, he worked for nearly nine years in the editorial department at The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.


John is currently the co-host of The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast, a writer for Tor.com, and has published hundreds of interviews and other pieces of non-fiction. He lives in New Jersey.

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