Zombies have long stalked and staggered through the darkest depths of human imagination, pandering to our fears about death and what lies beyond. But must zombies always be just shambling, brain-obsessed ghouls?

Gathering [Edelman's] complete zombie fiction to date, Almost the Last Stories proves that the undead can be more than just rampaging braineaters — though you’ll find plenty of gory gorging in these pages as well — but also a lens through which we can see that the living and the living dead are not so very different after all.