The Book of Final Flesh

All Flesh Must Be Eaten #3

by James Lowder (Editor)

From the battle-torn skies over World War I France to the corridors of alien prisoner-of-war satellites, the opium dens of exotic Victorian Shanghai to the living rooms of suburban America, the zombies rise up. Some crave revenge. Others hunger for the brains of the living. All are driven by desires they can neither control nor understand... Edited by James Lowder, The Book of Final Flesh presents more than twenty tales of the living dead, original works by such notable scribes of the weird and fantastic
• Sarah A Hoyt
• Roland Green
• Joseph Nassise
• Tim Waggoner
• Pete D. Manison
• Lucien Soulban
• and many more.... Editor James Lowder previously helmed the successful anthologies Realms of Valor and Realms of Infamy, and is known to readers for his own best-selling dark fantasy novels Knight of the Black Rose and Prince of Lies.

Genres: Zombies, Horror, Anthologies

319 pages, Paperback

First published July 15, 2003

About the author

aka Richard Awlinson, J D Lowder, Jim Lowder

James Lowder has worked extensively in fantasy and horror fiction on both sides of the editorial blotter. He's authored several best-selling dark fantasy novels, including Prince of Lies and Knight of the Black Rose, and has had short fiction appear in such anthologies as Shadows Over Baker Street and Genius Loci. He's penned comic book scripts for several companies and the city of Boston. His book and film reviews, feature articles, and role-playing game design work can be found in such diverse publications as Amazing Stories, Milwaukee Magazine, and The New England Journal of History. As an editor, he's directed lines or series for TSR, Green Knight Publishing, Chaosium, and CDS Books. He's helmed more than twenty anthologies, including Hobby Games: The 100 Best and Curse of the Full Moon. In the media, he is a regular contributor to the Public Radio show "Lake Effect" in Milwaukee, provided werewolf lore on the TV show Weird or What? and tabletop game industry lore for the documentary The Dreams in Gary's Basement, and served as a puppeteer on the indie film Misfit Heights.

Reviews

[Bill Borre]

“Opiate of the Masses” by Lee Thomas - A drug lord attempts to recruit a necrophile priest because the undead do not attack him but the priest refuses to turn his congregation's brains into drug residue. The drug lord's driver is loyal to the priest and betrays the drug lord into becoming another of the priest's undead playthings.

“Homelands” by Lucien Soulban - Nichols plans to rebuild America's collapse from a zombie apocalypse out of a base of operations in Shanghai after discovering opium keeps the walking dead at bay.

"Not Quite Ghosts" by Kealan Patrick Burke - wc
"The Secret in the Cellar" by Ed Greenwood - wc
"Familiar Eyes" by Barry Hollander - wc
"What Dead People Are Supposed to Do" by Paul E. Martens - wc
"If a Job's Worth Doing" by Andy Vetromile - wc

[Emily · Rating 3 out of 5]

A fun, easy read. It's a bunch of short zombie stories. I liked the first half of the book better. There are some stories I really liked and some I thought were terrible, typical of this kind of book.

[Cameron · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great zombie anthology. Has some naughty bits.

[Berrynana · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a fun book to read!
I am a huge zombie fan and these little stories were the perfect read between novels. It was like desert after a meal lol