Notes
Collects 22 stories set in the "Rot & Ruin" universe. 11 of them are new and 11 are reprints.
- 1st printing per number line (2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1) & FE logo on copyright page
- Publication date from Amazon.com
- Cover design by Laurent Linn
- Top cover photograph by John E. Barrett
- Bottom cover illustration by Chad Michael Ward (step-back) (also used in black-and-white at cover page illustration)
- "Ages 12 & Up" / catalog #0915
- Book design by Laurent Linn
- Zombie Card art by Rob Sacchetto
- "From Nix's Journal" contains excerpts from some of the intermission chapters of the novels in the series, and are titled:
- page 3: From Nix's Journal: On First Night
- page 37: From Nix's Journal: On Tom Imura
- page 95: From Nix's Journal: On Dying
- page 129: From Nix's Journal: On Love
- page 157: From Nix's Journal: On Surviving
- page 187: From Nix's Journal: On Being a Hero
- page 201: From Nix's Journal: On Knowledge
- page 281: From Nix's Journal: On Rebellion
- page 347: From Nix's Journal: On Discovering Your Own Path
- page 381: From Nix's Journal: On Being Who We Are
- page 431: From Nix's Journal: On Natural and Supernatural
- page 537: From Nix's Journal: On Hope
- Contents:
- Section 1: First Night, page 1
- Section 2: The Dying Years, page 161
- Section 3: Adrift in the Rot and Ruin, page 351
- Bonus Material, page 539
- Contents page also lists "The Quick and the Dead" on page 363, but that is part of "In the Land of the Dead"
