“Trail of the Dead” © 2007 Joanne Anderton. First Publication: Zombies, ed. Robert N. Stephenson (Altair Australia Books).
“Rigormarole” © 2005 Michael A. Arnzen. First publication: Rigormarole: Zombie Poems (Naked Snake Press, 2005).
“What Still Abides” © 2013 Marie Brennan. First Publication: Clockwork Phoenix 4, ed. Mike Allen (Mythic Delirium Press).
“Iphigenia in Aulis” by Mike Carey © 2012 Mike Carey. First publication: An Apple for the Creature, eds. Charlaine Harris & Toni L.P. Kelner (Ace Books).
“Those Beneath the Bog” © 2013 Jacques L. Condor. First Publication: Dead North: Canadian Zombie Fiction, ed. Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Exile Editions Ltd.)
“The Day the Saucers Came” © 2006 Neil Gaiman. First publication: Fragile Things (Headline Review; William Morrow/Harper Collins).
“There Is No ‘E’ in Zombi Which Means There Can Be No You or We” © 2010 Roxane Gay. First publication: Guernica, 1 October 2010.
“I Waltzed With a Zombie” © 2009 Ron Goulart. First publication: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October-November 2009.
“The Harrowers” © 2011 Eric Gregory. First Publication: Lightspeed, May 2011.
“The Death and Life of Bob” © 2013 William Jablonsky. First publication: Shimmer #16, Winter 2013.
“ ’Til Death Do Us Part” © 2012 Shaun Jeffrey. First Publication: Alt-Zombie, ed. Peter Mark May (Hersham Horror Books).
“The Afflicted” © 2012 Matthew Johnson. First publication: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July/August 2012.
“Rocket Man” © 2011 by Stephen Graham Jones. First publication: Stymie, Vol. 4, Issue 1, Spring & Summer 2011.
“Aftermath” © 2012 Joy Kennedy-O’Neill. First publication: Strange Horizons, 6 February/13 February 2012.
“In The Dreamtime of Lady Resurrection” © 2007 Caitlín R. Kiernan. First publication: Subterranean Magazine, Fall 2007.
“Present” © 2014 Nicole Kornher-Stace. First publication: Mythic Delirium, January 2014.
“The Hunt: Before, and the Aftermath” © 2012 Joe R. Lansdale. First publication: Trapped in the Saturday Matinee (PSPublishing).
“Becca at the End of the World” © 2013 Shira Lipkin. First publication: Apex Magazine, Issue 53, October 2013.
“What Maisie Knew” © 2010 David Liss. First Publication: The New Dead: A Zombie Anthology, ed. Christopher Golden (St. Martin’s Griffin).
“Jack and Jill” © 2012 by Jonathan Maberry. First publication: 21st Century Dead: A Zombie Anthology, ed. Christopher Golden (St. Martin’s Griffin).
“Selected Sources for the Babylonian Plague of the Dead (572-571 BCE)” © 2013 Alex Dally MacFarlane. First publication: Zombies: Shambling Through the Ages, ed. Steve Berman (Prime Books).
“The Naturalist” © 2010 Maureen F. McHugh. First publication: Subterranean Magazine, Spring 2010.
“The Day the Music Died” © 2011 Joe McKinney. First Publication: Holiday of the Dead, ed. David Dunwoody (Wild Wolf Publishing).
“Resurgam” © 2010 Lisa Mannetti. First publication: Dead Set: A Zombie Anthology, eds. Michelle McCrary & Joe McKinney (23 House Publishing).
“Stemming the Tide” © 2013 Simon Strantzas. First Publication: Dead North: Canadian Zombie Fiction, ed. Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Exile Editions Ltd.)
“Chew” © 2013 Tamsyn Muir. First publication: Lightspeed, January 2013.
“Delice” © 2010 Holly Newstein. First publication: The New Dead: A Zombie Anthology, ed. Christopher Golden (St. Martin’s Griffin).
“What Once We Feared” © 2013 Carrie Ryan. First publication: What Once We Feared: An Original Forest of Hands and Teeth Story (Delacorte Books for Young Readers).
“The Children’s Hour” © 2010 Marge Simon. First publication: Dead Set: A Zombie Anthology, eds. Michelle McCrary & Joe McKinney (23 House).
“A Shepherd of the Valley” © 2011 Maggie Slater. First publication: Zombie Feed Volume 1, ed. Jason Sizemore (TZF/Apex Books).
“Bit Rot” © 2010 Charles Stross. First publication: Engineering Infinity, ed. Jonathan Strahan (Solaris).
“The Gravedigger of Konstan Spring” © 2012 Genevieve Valentine. First publication: Lightspeed, February 2012.
“Kitty’s Zombie New Year” © 2012 Carrie Vaughn, LLC. First publication: Weird Tales #345, June/July 2007.
“Pollution” © 2014 Don Webb. First publication: Analog, April 2014.
“Dead Song” © 2011 Jay Wilburn. First Publication: Zombies for a Cure, ed. Angela Charmaine Craig (Elektrik Milk Bath Press).