title: Lou Cameron's Unsleeping Dead (Chilling Archives of Horror Comics)
author: Tillmann Courth
description: "I first saw Lou Cameron's work in <i>Classics Illustrated</i>, in tales full of beautiful designs and deep humanity. Now, here's a whole book of his stories. I'm thrilled!" &ndash;Walter Simonson
zlib_text: # THE DEFENSELESS DEAD
  
  Larry Niven
  
  [30 aug 2001 - proofread and re-released for #bookz - v1]
  
  The dead lay side by side beneath the glass. Long ago, in a roomier world,
  these older ones had been entombed each in his own double-walled casket. Now
  they lay shoulder to shoulder, more or less in chronological order, looking
  up, their features clear through thirty centimeters of liquid nitrogen
  sandwiched between two thick sheets of glass.
  
  Elsewhere in the building some sleepers wore clothing, formal costumery of a
  dozen periods. In two long tanks on another floor the sleepers had been
  prettied up with low-temperature cosmetics, and sometimes with a kind of
  flesh-colored putty to fill and cover major wounds. A weird practice. It
  hadn’t lasted beyond the middle of the last century. After all, these sleepers
  planned to return to life someday. The damage should show at a glance.
  
  With these, it did.
  
  They were all from the tail end of the twentieth century. They looked like
  hell. Some were 