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I have never had any trouble understanding the fascination with vaies that have been invented over the past few decades, the thousand per to present a fresh take on the material, the fundamentals have remained the same Vampires are both beautiful and terrible (and aren&039;t ays strangely attracted to people with both of those attributes) The erotic nature of the va, the penetration And, of course, they live forever Though we ht think better of it once the consequences have been contemplated, who in the world has not wished for immortality, for the chance to cheat death?

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And yet in recent years the zombie story has become more and more popular and has evolved fro business The zombie&039;s presence in e A Ro Dead in 1968 An entire genre seeh various ood friend, the ever erudite Stephen R Bissette (who graces us with a story in this voluh history than I of the various elements that contributed to the development of the popular zombie story, not least of which is the biblical tale of Lazarus What fascinates e in popularity that zoe days, indeed Times of torture and deceit and celebrity and constant exposure to the worst the world has to offer, thanks to a er for the horrible

My favorite work of zombie fiction ever is the poem &039;The March of the Dead&039; by Robert Service In a way, it set the tone for this new anthology, though it was published long, long ago Service wrote of the glorious ho of victorious soldiers, celebrated by the townspeople as they paraded through the streetsonly to be followed by the ravaged, horrible, lu dead, the soldiers who did not survive the war

When I set out to edit this anthology, I sought out a wide variety of perspectives on the modern fascination with zombies I asked questions Are we so inured to death thatfind it char? Or - and this was my suspicion - do we e the horror that we feel at the reality of war and torture and death? The films that have covered the war in Iraq, its foundations and its consequences, have by and large been ignored by audiences, and yet during the height of our horror at the developments there, horror filenre divorced fro to think about, at any rate

Now, don&039;t start thinking that what you&039;re going to find within these pages will be war stories or political stories There are military and political elements to a handful of the tales, but I cast the net much wider than that What I wanted were, in no uncertain terms, tales of death and resurrection If, in the process, ere able to examine various facets of pop culture&039;s fascination with zombies, all the better

That also doesn&039;t mean that there are no traditional zo such a wide variety of contributors is that the tales run the gamut from modern warfare to postapocalyptic futures, fro voodoo horrors, froes you will find hureat brevity, and others of epic sprawl You will even find one that answers my questions about death and resurrection in athe resurrection eleh, I think that one brings us back full circle to the question, and even back to the vampires

Why are we fascinated by zo as death co, in whatever form

Here, then, Zombie

Christopher Golden

Bradford, Massachusetts

May 18, 2009