"What if there were a war after Armageddon? How would the survivors emerging from World War III's radioactive slag heaps fight in this conflict? Would they wage it with sticks and stones . . . and sorcery? Or would they use more refined weapons, elevating lawfare to an art and unleashing bureaucratic nightmares worse than death? Would they struggle against themselves or inter-dimensional invaders? What horrors from the desolate darkness might slither into the light? Wipe away the ashes of civilization and peer into a pit of atomic glass to witness the haunting visions of World War IV from today's greatest minds in science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Contributors include: Jonathan Maberry, Steven Barnes, D.J. Butler, Brad R. Torgersen, Martin L. Shoemaker, T.C. McCarthy, Eric James Stone, Stephen Lawson, Freddy Costello and Michael Z. Williamson, Laird Barron, Nick Mamatas, Brian Trent, Erica L. Satifka, Kevin Andrew Murphy, Maurice Broaddus and Rodney Carlstrom, David VonAllmen, Deborah A. Wolf, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Julie Frost, Weston Ochse, and John Langan"--