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The Book of the Living Dead

John Richard Stephens

First published 2010
Publisher Berkley Books
Format Trade Paperback
Type Anthology
Pages xi+399
Price $15.00
ISBN 9780425237069

  • 1st printing per number line of the Berkley trade paperback edition: October 2010.
  • Price in Canada: C$18.50
  • Editor's note: "Some of these stories have been modified to remove racism and to update spelling and punctuation."
  • Notes on credits:
    • The story "A Curious Dream" has its title printed as "A Curious Dream [over] Containing a Moral" at the head of the story" and as "A Curious Dream (Containing a Moral)" in the table of contents. The latter form has been used here.
    • "Croglin Grange" has its author credit as "as recorded by Augustus Hare" at the head of the story, "Augustus Hare" in the table of contents. "Augustus Hare" has been used here.
    • "The Corpse That Ran Away" has its author credit given as "from The Evening Telegram" at the head of the story, "The Evening Telegram" in the table of contents. This has been recorded here as "uncredited."

Page Title Author(s) Type
1 Zombies, Vampires, Mummies, and Other Reanimated Corpses John Richard Stephens Essay
4 The Monkey's Paw W. W. Jacobs Short Story
17 The Amorous Corpse Théophile Gautier Novelette
52 The Metamorphoses of a Vampire Charles Baudelaire Poem
54 Frankenstein (Abbreviated) Mary Shelley & John Richard Stephens Novella
126 The Ghoul Sir Hugh Clifford Short Story
141 The Facts of M. Valdemar's Case Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
153 The Corpse That Ran Away uncredited Short Story
156 The Hand Guy de Maupassant Short Story
163 Herbert West: Reanimator H. P. Lovecraft Novelette
197 The Hollow Man Thomas Burke Short Story
212 Wake Not the Dead John H. Knox Novelette
241 The Dance of the Dead Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem
244 The Coffin-Maker Alexander Pushkin Short Story
253 For the Blood Is the Life F. Marion Crawford Short Story
271 The Adventure of the German Student Washington Irving Short Story
278 The Tomb of Sarah F. G. Loring Short Story
293 Teig O'Kane and the Corpse Douglas Hyde Short Story
308 The Name on the Stone Lafcadio Hearn Short Story
311 The Vampire of Croglin Grange Augustus Hare Short Story
317 Thurnley Abbey Perceval Landon Short Story
334 A Curious Dream (Containing a Moral) Mark Twain Short Story
344 The Story of Baelbrow E. Heron & H. Heron Short Story
359 The Hero of the Tomb Sir Walter Scott Short Story
363 The Cross-Roads Amy Lowell Short Story
367 A Dead Love Lafcadio Hearn Short Story
369 Salt Is Not for Slaves G. W. Hutter Short Story
384 A Thousand Deaths Jack London Short Story