I'm a new poster to these boards, but I felt compelled to register and post a comment about the Birth of the Dead article in Dragon 336.
The flavour text contained in that article is without a doubt some of the best and most effective short fiction I have ever seen in Dragon. The encounter between Regdar and the ghost sent tingles up my spine (I read it twice, just to get the sensation again!), and the vignette about the ghoul and the bodak were equally powerful.
Props to the author. I look forward to seeing more articles from him.