Special thanks to George Romero and John A. Russo for writing the script for Night of the Living Dead and thereby lighting the fuse to something that would blow up bigger than anyone could have foreseen. Thanks to Michael Homler at St. Martin’s Griffin for going to bat for this project. Thanks to our agents, Sara Crowe and David Gersh, for guiding this project through the weird and dangerous landscape that is modern publishing. Thanks to Dana Fredsti for being the world’s best evil assistant.