What do you imagine when you hear the name . . . Bradbury?

You might see rockets to Mars. Or bizarre circuses where otherworldly acts whirl in the center ring. Perhaps you travel to a dystopian future, where books are set ablaze . . . or to an out-of-the-way sideshow, where animated illustrations crawl across human skin. Or maybe, suddenly, you're returned to a simpler time in small-town America, where summer perfumes the air and life is almost perfect . . . almost.

Ray Bradbury--peerless storyteller, poet of the impossible, and one of America's most beloved authors--is a literary giant whose remarkable career has spanned seven decades. Now twenty-six of today's most diverse and celebrated authors offer new short works in honor of the master; stories of heart, intelligence, and dark wonder from a remarkable range of creative artists.

Loving her new home and its big basement, five-year-old Missy is unaware that her imaginary playmate, Lisette, is the tortured soul of a murdered child. And Lisette is determined to get revenge on a cruel world for her destroyed life.

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Includes Amazing Fiction by:

Bram Stoker Award Winner, David Niall Wilson
British Fantasy Award Nominee, Rio Youers
Bram Stoker Award Nominee, Nate Kenyon
Multiple Award Winning Author, Cody Goodfellow
Authorlink New Author Award Winner, Tim Waggoner
George Turner Prize Nominee, Narrelle M. Harris
Bram Stoker Award Winner, John Everson
Pulitzer Prize, Bram Stoker Nominee, Mort Castle
And so much more...

"I'm proud to be a part of the Best New Zombie Tales series."
World Horror Grand Master, Multiple Award Winning Horror Legend, Ray Garton

James Roy Daley is doing a marvelous job with his Best New Zombie Tales series-- TERRIFIC Bloody well done "
New York Times bestseller Jonathan Maberry, author of PATIENT ZERO and ROT & RUIN

TOC:

Sleepwalk: The Deduction ROBERT ELROD
Introduction JAMES ROY DALEY
Bury Me Not RIO YOUERS
Laundry Day STEVEN A. ROMAN
Provider TIM WAGGONER
The Truth About Brains NARRELLE M. HARRIS
Gravedigger NATE KENYON
Coming Home DAVID NIALL WILSON
The Third Option DEREK GUNN
The Worst Is Yet To Come PETE MESLING
La Sequia T. F. DAVENPORT
Viva Las Vegas THOMAS ROCHE
Til Decay Do Us Part MYRRYM DAVIS
We Will Rebuild CODY GOODFELLOW
Dredging Up The Dead J. W. SCHNARR
Camille Smiled JOHN EVERSON
Not With A Bang But A Whimper MONICA J. O ROURKE
Reunion JAMES NEWMAN
Gran ma s in the Bathroom ( and she s not coming out) KEN GOLDMAN
The Old Man And The Dead MORT CASTLE
The Finger MATT HULTS

You see him at PTA meetings, selling peanuts for Kiwanis, mowing his lawn. Michael Louden is your ever-so-average nice guy, your neighbor, your friend--except he wants to kill you and your family and your dog. He's the next door serial psycho, Jack the Ripper in Willy Loman's well shined shoes--and John Wayne Gacy in his clown costume. And he's not alone. Michael Louden and others like him, Strangers, are just waiting for their moment of history--to destroy any hope of the future. "THE STRANGERS offers one of the most unsettling and true representations of evil that you're likely to experience in a horror novel" --From the Introduction by Marc Paoletti THE STRANGERS, Mort Castle's 1984 cult classic of hard driving horror, is back in print in this trade paperback. This wonderfully creepy, yet disturbing tale will have you looking around at your friends, family, and neighbors in a way you never suspected. THE STRANGERS has been optioned by Whitewater Films in 2005.