This collection of zombie stories features some of the top zombie authors in the genre; T.W. Piperbrook, A.J. Brown, Chris Philbrook and Eric A. Shelman. There are many newcomers here too, having had their dream of being published realized for the first time. You will find that telling them apart may be difficult - we had hundreds of submissions, and this is the cream of the crop. We hope you enjoy this romp through the apocalypse.

Dave Stewart has survived the inferno of Kansas City and come out the other side. To the rest of the world his fate is uncertain, and by now even Agent Keyes knows better than to assume he's dead. As Keyes and his rogue DHS agents continue their search for him, Dave knows that Plan A, as usual, won't work. His only chance is to keep moving until he can find a safe way to make contact with Nate Reid and figure out his next move. As Dave's odyssey across a zombie infested America continues, he encounters the best and the worst in his fellow survivors. He will find new allies, learn more about...

Summer vacation isn't all fun and hanging out when you're a wizard-in-training. For partly reformed warlock Chance Fortunato, it's even worse. In addition to the constant study and training, he has to prove he's ready to be a full-fledged apprentice before he starts at the Franklin Academy. Plus, he's beginning to think someone has it out for him. If things weren't bad enough with a snooty proctor monitoring his every move and demons trying to capture him, his father finally makes his first attempt to get his wayward son back under his control by trying to frame his mom. When the old man...

Caleb Archer has been many things in his violent and checkered past. Wandering the American West as a Rigger, one of the hard breed of men who stand in the Verge and work the transmission poles atop the new Aether trains, he has seen many things, both beautiful and terrible. But what he finds when he wanders into the little town of Hermosa Springs is the most bizarre and deadliest thing he's ever encountered; a creature with a thirst for blood that is unharmed by any earthly weapon. Suspected at first of being responsible for its first two victims, Caleb must clear his name not only with the...