Edited by John Mason Skipp, Mondo Zombie

Mondo Zombie

Edited by John Mason Skipp

Cemetery Dance, Mar 2006, $35.00, 492 pp.

ISBN: 1587670402

This twenty-seven story anthology runs the gamut of zombies with touches of other genres like romance and mystery that add to the fun of the horror collection. Two thirds of the tales are new, while the remaining nine are from the last fifteen years. The authors are a fine mix of the very famous to the as yet unknown (at least to this reviewer), and the stories are all solid fun, with a few having quite a tasty bite. Fans will enjoy learning about Fat Eddie the Deadie, police officer Valensuela and her concern over Dead Thing pensions, and the "mor violent" than the UFC, Kay Fabe productions in Westchester, etc. Tongue in cheek, these are fun tales, though for the most part the cast is one dimensional dead. Zombieites will mondo enjoy these wacky tales.