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The New Dead

2010 anthology edited by Christopher Golden

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ21161080 ↗
Source-derived summary

The New Dead: A Zombie Anthology is an anthology of zombie short stories edited by Christopher Golden. The stories contained in it were written by authors including Max Brooks, son of Mel Brooks and author of World War Z and The Zombie Survival Guide, and Joe Hill, son of Stephen King, author of Heart-Shaped Box and writer of Locke & Key.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “The New Dead” as 2010 anthology edited by Christopher Golden. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 61-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2010-01-01. The account is most persuasive where Dead, anthology and edited can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as 2010 anthology edited by Christopher Golden. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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This entry incorporates text from “The New Dead” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.