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You know what? I love the undead. I love the poignant, disturbing questions they explore, the sense of tragedy and history they evoke, and the end-of-their-ropes characters they attract. I love the monsters (Skin kites! Rot angels! Visages!) that fray at our nerves and our moral understanding of the world. I love the haunting, dirt-encrusted, desperate, beyond-the-pale stories they inspire. I love the way you can order them around and they can't say boo about it...

Whenever I get to work on a book about the undead, I really feel like I've been handed such a treat. Like the undead anthology I'm editing right now: Realms of the Dead (due out January 2010). So. Good. With stories by Richard Lee Byers and The New York Times best-selling R.A. Salvatore, among others. And full of groovy undead.