Editing All Flesh Must be Eaten (section)

===Worlds of the Dead===
'''Aces High: World War I:''' When Baron von Richthoven, alias The Red Baron, is shot down in January 1917, his restless soul refuses to stay dead and he rises as an undead pilot, determined to continue fighting for his beloved Fatherland. His existence, and the strange curse that lets him instinctively resurrect any member of his "Flying Circus" as a fellow zombie pilot — only when they have been destroyed a second time, truly killing them, is a new pilot inducted into the Flying Circus — have furthermore goaded the Germans to put into usage the diaries of Baron Frankenstein, retrieved from a castle in Switzerland. Only the revenant of Richard Raymond-Barker can slay the undead Red Baron, but the other German undead are not so bound by destiny.

'''Blighted Isle:''' The great potato blight that caused widespread famine in the Ireland of 1846 has taken an even worse turn in this deadworld. The blight has infected the earth of Ireland, meaning that any human buried in it is animated by the twisted fungus as a ravenous organ-eating zombie. And because of the actions of some insane Irish escapees in trying to infect an English graveyard with the same polluted soil, the whole island has been barricaded in an effort to keep the dead trapped on the island — along with all of the people who are still alive.

'''Dead Men and Derring Do:''' In 1640, France, the much-hated Cardinal Richelieu discovered a profane alchemical formula that granted him immortality — at the cost of needing to feed upon human hearts. His own guards, horrified by the undead monster he had become, betrayed him, but they couldn't destroy him — instead, binding him in an iron face-mask, they sealed him away in the deepest cells of the Bastille, hoping he would never be free. But, twenty years later, well-meaning swordsmen broke into the Bastille and freed "The Man in the Iron Mask", and the Cardinal feasted upon their flesh and that of the prisoners, releasing a horde of zombified prisoners upon the streets of Paris. Realizing he could control these monsters, Richelieu now seeks domination over every last man, woman and child on the planet — living or dead.

'''Tales of the Walking Dead:''' Arabian Nights: In 796 AD, when the ambitious Vizir to the Sultan Ibn Madhi of Amman offers his own daughter's hand to the bride-seeking royal, the young girl runs out into the desert and beseeches the spirits of the sand to save her from marriage to such a brutal man. Discovering a jinni bound in a ring, she barters its freedom in exchange for an unstoppable army that will destroy not only her hated would-be groom, but the entire Islamic Empire. Amused by this idea, the jinni agrees, calling to lesser jinn and having them possess the nearly ten thousand victims of the Sultan, raising them up as an army of the walking dead that destroy Amman, then lope off into the dunes in pursuit of their goal.

'''The 47 Gaki:''' On December 15, 1748, the 46th anniversary of the day that forty-six of The 47 Ronin were forced to commit Seppuku, they arise as powerful undead, determined to topple the former Shogunate and conquer Japan with an army of their own walking dead minions.

'''Over The Wall:''' In the era of the Roman Empire, Pictish Shamans have discovered a set of magical tattoos that raise the bearer as a ferocious, superhumanly fast, strong and agile organ-eating undead monster. Creating many of these abominations, the Picts have turned them against Hadrian's Wall, trusting the undead predators will scale its heights and proceed to slaughter their way towards Rome, leaving Britain back in the hands of the Picts once again.

'''Frankenstein, 1935:''' Baron Frankenstein's study into reanimating the dead revolutionized the British Empire when he used his lore to restore life to Queen Victoria, who now rules as the 116-year-old Queen Victoria the Everlasting. But the British Empire has stagnated into a decadent, corrupt civilization, supported by a huge slave-caste of blood-drinking semi-mindless reanimates.

'''The Crusade of the Damned:''' In the year 1937, a mad cultist has used the black magical relic that saw the Templars executed to resurrect the Templars as an army to conquer humanity.

'''Dial Z for Hero:''' A deadworld parodying the Golden and Silver Ages of comic books, where people who have died have mysteriously been returning as super-powered undead heroes and villains.

'''Our Zombies At War:''' With the aid of necromantic lore devised by the Thule Society, Adolf Hitler created a massive army of zombies and used them to conquer much of Europe, only to bog down in a stalemate with the Soviet Union when they created their own armies of psychotronic zombies. The year is 1940. Germany and Russia's zombie armies have been butchering each other ceaselessly, with no end in sight. Both powers are courting the United States of America, which remained out of the war, while America is secretly exploring its own zombification methods, the super-soldier program known as Project West.

'''The Dread Menace:''' The Communist threats to America in the 1950s led to America destroying itself, thanks to Project SPEx — a Special Projects and Experimentation group intended to fight against Communism of all kinds. Their wonder drug, the suggestive influencing toxin known as Neuro-Thene-12, turned out to damage the brains of those exposed to it so badly that they became mindless, insatiable, violent killing machines... but only after it had already been deployed over wide areas. And as the drug bonds to the glandular system, any fluid transfer between the "zombies" and a living person spreads the toxin further...

'''Peace, Love and Zombies:''' The CIA's "Project: MK-ULTRA" went down no less than three routes in reviving the dead. Group A used radiation to enhance a rare virus first discovered by the Werhmact near the end of World War II, injecting this into living victims to strong, bloodthirsty, brutal, uncontrollable zombies that could spread their condition by biting. Group B used research into Voodoo to create a chemical compound that would bring back a recently deceased body as a docile, inoffensive, simple-minded walking corpse. Group C used a chemical process perfected in the 1920s by a little-known Massachusetts physician who disappeared under mysterious circumstances, creating fully intelligent zombies — who needed to feed on human brains. Group C organized a break out, and the three types of zombie have since scattered across America.

'''Sweet Zombie Treat:''' In the 1990s, the heir to a once-wealthy ice cream company used black magic to contact the spirit of the company's founder, his grandmother, and received a new recipe for an ice cream that was both low-calorie and ultra-delicious. The only problem is that people who eat it and die come back as zombies, still addicted to that ice-cream... and perfectly willing to rip it out of living peoples' guts to get it.

'''Welcome To Whimseyville:''' The dark secret of the popular theme park Whimseyville is that all of its "animatronic" characters are actually zombies, created through chemically preserved corpses animated by computer chips in their brains. Perfectly harmless... Except for the fact that Hurricane George has recently blown past, scrambling the programming in the zombies and leaving them increasingly hungry for fresh meat and belligerent.

'''A Not-So-Perfect Storm:''' On a small island southwest of Jamaica, a medical research team has accidentally reanimated the dead buried on their island, just as a mighty hurricane comes along...

'''Parallelium:''' The time has come when the boundaries between the worlds of Earth and Parallelium, a fantasy world where many monsters — including armies of the walking dead — roam, have grown thin, allowing residents of one world to cross over to the other.

'''Immortality:''' A world where the zombie apocalypse has destroyed the old society, but few yet realize that the zombies walk amongst them in a more literal fashion. The walking dead are the souls of those who died, for the afterlife is mysteriously barred to all, and by feeding on the stuff of the soul, zombies can disguise themselves as living beings.

'''Panacaea:''' A world where the titular Panacaea, a combination of nanotechnology and adaptive genetics, has eradicated all illness, deformity and disease. The problem is that those who die are revived as killer zombies, but Recycling Inc. has found a way to make even these creatures useful.

'''Legacy:''' A post-apocalyptic world where unbridled ecological destruction have caused the dead to walk, forcing humanity to fight side by side with Simulcra, artificial humanoids, in hopes of staving off the destruction of their species.

'''The Dead of Space:''' Aboard the slower-than-light "sleeper" colonist ship, the Papa Legba, systems malfunctions and space radiation have created a mutated fungus in the cryopods, creating walking dead that seek only to devour human flesh.