Covers the zombie plague and "fightback" by surviving humans through a collection of short fiction in the form of newspaper stories, emails, diaries, letters, tweets, transcripts of conversations and videorecordings, government documents, and other materials.

"A mammoth book"--Cover. Contents from acknowledgements list p. [542-3].

Tabloid tales / Jo Fletcher -- From Prof. Margaret Winn / Christopher Fowler -- From Simon Wesley #1 / Christopher Fowler -- Lord of the fleas / Reggie Oliver -- The Hobbs End horror / Jo Fletcher -- From Simon Wesley #2 / Christopher Fowler -- Morphogenesis / Brian Hodge -- Hard news / Jo Fletcher -- Dead air / Paul Finch -- Consent form / Amanda Foubister -- From Simon Wesley #3 / Christopher Fowler -- The well of seven / Christopher Fowler -- From Simon Wesley #4 / Christopher Fowler -- Paris when it sizzles / Anne Billson -- Pages from a British Army field manual / Guy Adams -- Peace land blood / Sarah Pinborough -- ZZ experiment camp / John Llewellyn Probert -- Down among the dead men / Neil Gaiman, Les Edwards -- #zOmBEY / Simon Strantzas -- Rendition / Paul McAuley -- Fright club / Brian Hodge -- The world according to Bernie Maughmstein #1/ Peter Crowther -- In the cloud / Pat Cadigan -- The world according to Bernie Maughmstein #2 / Peter Crowther -- Corpse gas / Peter Crowther -- The world according to Bernie Maughmstein #3 / Peter Crowther -- Getting it right / Michael Marshall Smith -- The world according to Bernie Maughmstein #4 / Peter Crowther -- A shamble of zombies / Roz Kaveney -- Day of the dead / Lisa Morton -- To serve man / Amanda Foubister -- You are what you eat / Amanda Foubister -- The world according to Bernie Maughmstein #5 / Peter Crowther -- The play's the thing / Robert Shearman -- The world according to Bernie Maughmstein #6 / Peter Crowther -- Island life / Lisa Tuttle -- The world according to Bernie Maughmstein #7 / Peter Crowther -- My Fellow Americans / Nancy Holder.