Zombies! Zombies! Zombies!

Big Book Series

By: Otto Penzler

Narrated by: Heather Costa, Matt Godfrey

Zombies! Zombies! Zombies! is the darkest, the living-deadliest, scariest - and dare we say most tasteful - collection of zombie stories ever assembled. It's so good, it's a no-brainer.

There is never a dull moment in the world of zombies. They are superstars of horror, and they are everywhere, storming the world of print and visual media. Their endless march will never be stopped. It's the Zombie Zeitgeist! Now, with his wide sweep of knowledge and keen eye for great storytelling, Otto Penzler offers a remarkable catalog of zombie literature.

Including unstoppable tales from world-renowned authors like Joe R. Lansdale, Robert McCammon, and Robert E. Howard, Zombies! Zombies! Zombies! will delight and devour horror fans from coast to coast.

Featuring:

• Deadly bites
• Satanic Pigeons
• A parade of corpses
• Zombies, zombies, and more zombies

©2011 Otto Penzler (introduction and compilation) (P)2019 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

I enjoyed 75% of the stories in this awesome book.

This was the biggest collection of zombie stories, I recommend it to all horror fans. The "Night of the living dead" zombie stories are my favorite but the voodoo and Haitian zombies were interesting.. Please do yourself a favor and grab this anthology and hold on tight!

Adjusting some unfair reviews

This is an amazing collection of over a century of work concerning zombies that aren't, as Otto Penzler put it in the forward, "a near pornographic gore fest"(close enough it's been a while since I heard that part). The breadth of stories are fascinating but should be taken as products of the era. I saw too many reviews that dogged this collection down as just a whole bunch of racist sludge. But everything is era correct and the most racist people are the dang villains. It's a collection of stories about monsters that were men... Why is anyone surprised that there's horrible things contained within? It's narrated well, the stories are great, be aware it's a wide reaching collection so it's all types of writing and some old ideas that have been changed by now but that doesn't change the quality of the story telling.

A Guide to Haitian Zombies

The narration was excellent and the stories were enjoyable. The reasons I gave 3 stars overall are the following: 1) primarily about Haitian zombies, 2) got burned out on all the Haitian zombie stories, 3) most of the stories, it seemed to me, where from the 1920-1950s and 4) the last story is actually book length it's chapters 159-184, over 6 hours!!!!! It was struggle to finish the last story since I wasn't expecting a book length story and I kept wondering will this ever end. For 1 credit, it is worth it. I just hope my warning about the last story helps you start out listening in a different mindset than I had when I entered into it.

I really liked all these stories

I’d never actually read an hp lovecraft story but now I’ve heard so many great stories by many authors I’d never heard of! This was hours of great listening

Amazingly entertaining collection

Zombie stories have never been particularly interesting to me, so I was VERY surprised at how much I enjoyed this collection. I love books and will read from many genres, though I tend to favor Horror and old school 'Weird Tales', which made this a perfect fit for me despite the Zombie title. Otto Penzler did an amazing job of tracking down stories that encompass every possible definition of 'Zombie Story', from the current depiction of brain-eating Monsters to. what certain ancient beliefs of foreign cultures would define as a zombie. I have a special kind for short stories but I know as well as anyone that NO Anthology is without their weaknesses, BUT considering the huge amount of contents in this book, there were very few that I skipped before the end and most of these, I'm sure to listen to multiple times. This is a great book and has thankfully led to my discovery of a few other Penzler 'Big Books' that one enjoyed as well!