A review by maa_pix
Zombies! Zombies! Zombies! by Otto Penzler

4.0

This is a well-assembled anthology. The main "problem" with these stories is that many rely on the creeping realization, or sudden reveal, that the subject is in fact a zombie. This is especially true of the older selections. As standalone stories, that approach might be effective. But such suspense is non-existant in this collection since we know these are zombie stories throughout.

I cherry-picked my way through the book, selecting mostly the shorter of the stories. There were some memorable standouts: the boxing zombie, the castrating evangelical zombies, the Hemingway zombies, the concert musician zombie. Even the more "traditional" stories were very good. I just found the book as a whole too much of a single note, at least too much to swallow in one go. I may check it out from the library again in the future and keep working on it.

I would recommend the book to anyone who likes short stories and/or the zombie craze.