A collection of short stories spanning the best of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Included within are tales such as "Price of Survival," a story where a king must make a bargain with the darkness to save his people. "Last Contact" wherein an expedition looking for a new colony for the Earth's growing population finds the ideal world, except it is already inhabited. And "Vengeance, Inc." whose management specializes in helping the recently-departed get revenge on those who killed them.

A collection of short stories spanning the best of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Included within are tales such as "Price of Survival," a story where a king must make a bargain with the darkness to save his people. "Last Contact" wherein an expedition looking for a new colony for the Earth's growing population finds the ideal world, except it is already inhabited. And "Vengeance, Inc." whose management specializes in helping the recently-departed get revenge on those who killed them.

The change strikes without warning. All across the world men, women, and children cry out in agony. There is no pattern, nothing to explain why some are afflicted and others spared, but in the end a quarter of the population falls. A mere seven minutes later the corpses rise and begin to attack the living. The speed in which it happens, coupled with the survivors' disbelief and horror, is simply too great. Chaos takes hold. Civilization crumbles. Hidden away inside his home, Jacob Thornton prepares to flee. The streets belong to the shambling dead. Power vanishes. The airways are silent. To...