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NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD Featuring the original cast of the cult classic You Won't Believe... An abandoned hilltop farmhouse. Seven desperate people -- and a surrounding darkness ripped by bloodcurdling cries of anguish...a state of emergency has been declared: the unimaginable is happening in...

A decade after the first zombie outbreak, a bus crashes in a small American town, killing everyone on board. Local churchgoers rush to the scene to save the living and destroy the dead. But they're too late. A terrifying new plague of living dead has been unleashed. A new horde of victims has been infected. And this time, they are ravenous.

While visiting their father’s grave, Barbara and Johnny see a man slowly approaching them. Grotesque and ghost-pale, the man kills Johnny. Barbara manages to flee to a nearby farmhouse, where others have gathered to escape the outbreak. This ragtag group hope to fend off the horde of recently dead, flesh-eating ghouls. Will any of them make it out alive?

This audio presentation of the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction is a super-duper triple issue, comprising ten key selections (most of the contents, actually) of FSF's September issue and the forthcoming double October/November issue.

By understanding the psychological forces that drive The Walking Dead's action, fans can better grasp Robert Kirkman's compelling fictional universe. Which characters suffer PTSD, which show the most hope for recovery, and which instead show post-traumatic growth? Has Rick Grimes lost his mind? In 19 chapters from a range of esteemed contributors, The Walking Dead Psychology: Psych of the Living Dead answers these and many other questions.

From the author of the horror classic Night of the Living Dead. Tiffany Blake was a beautiful dancer with a glorious future and the backing of a rich benefactor. Then a monstrous accident severed her leg at the hip. Now, the ballerinas are disappearing without a trace. One by one, they fall victim to a dark and deadly pattern of evil - caught by a psycho that would have them pay with their lovely bodies for the cruel fate of another...victims of a madman whose flashing knife will make them writhe a gruesome new dance.

Cynthia and her brothers had heard the stories about grandpa, who could summon demons and compel people to die with a curse. Maybe, they also possessed the ancient powers. At first, they caught smallish demons who had assumed the shapes of rabbits and birds and then, larger ones like those who resembled the neighbor kids.

The evil soul of a witch doctor lives on in the body of Simon, the great jungle beast who leads his human followers - the Panther People - in their orgies of lust and blood. Now the innocent Martin family, George, Peg, and their beautiful daughter, Jenny, on vacation, will stumble upon this gruesome cult, trapped in a desert nightmare of terror and death - waiting. In the quiet wasteland, the sound of their own pulses will be all they can hear.

The little creatures came to play, and now in fresh-dug graves they lay. Cynthia and her three little brothers had heard the stories of their grandpa, who could summon demons and compel people to die with a curse. So, when the children discovered they, too, had the ancient power, they knew what to do.

In a small New York State college, beautiful 18-year-old Laura Clark is blossoming, reaching out for love and trying to escape her controlling mother. But for Laura, there is no escape. Not from her mother, not from the unnameable horror that haunts her dreams, and not from the coven's spell of darkness.

Benjamin Latham is young and handsome, his 18th-century mind wakened to a bizarre 20th-century world. And there is the need deep within...an animal need, frightening, murderous, unholy...a vital need that must be fed. And with his need comes a power over men and women to do his bidding, to quiet his dark craving...Until the murders begin...Now Benjamin must find a sanctuary: a lover, a partner, a friend. Someone who can share his darkness. Someone he can lead to...the awakening.

Dealey Plaza is one of the most notorious places in America, and when youthful conspiracy buffs go there in 1964 to stage their own reenactment of the Kennedy Assassination, four of them are brutally murdered - the first victims of a hate-filled legacy that continues for four more decades. The survivors of that long-ago Dallas trip, each of them now icons of the American way of life, are about to be honored - or killed.

Seven bodies have washed ashore in Florida, and one of the drowned is Chango, the voodoo sorcerer whose leather pouch holds a child's severed finger. The sorcerer and his six followers have been buried in a mass grave. And prayers have been spoken to exorcise their unholy powers. But Chango's spirit still prowls the moonlit beaches, taking victim after victim...leaving them cannibalized and dismembered.