The Truth About Zombies
My name is Erin and I am not a zombie, though my boyfriend, the gangster, Ryu, and the ghoul, Clément, tried to make one of me. They nearly succeeded, too, but Clément blew it—as he usually does—and although I no longer speak, appear to be totally apathetic, and exhibit other zombie-like behaviors, I was not really “made” in the traditional sense. I still have my will. If you read the official accounts, you’ll find that Erin Orison, the talented and rebellious only daughter of American ambassador,...
Dead Love: A Zombie Tas...
“The houseboat smelled of licorice drops and hashish and developing chemicals and was sparsely furnished and crammed with art. In the main room, which held only a table and two rather worn chairs, photographs covered every surface. Matted enlargements of photographs leaned against...
Dead Love Book Flies of...
This weekend proved that fiends … or at least fiendish tales … do fly. The first copies of DEAD LOVE managed to fly their way to Book Passage and were gobbled up faster than you can say, “Begone Banshee!” Fortunately Book Passage has a lot of books coming in for...
Dead Love: Zombies in P...
The mere mention of Paris cemeteries makes me think of David Downie, who used to have an office overlooking Père Lachaise in the City of Light … and dark. David knows EVERYTHING about Paris and I love the way he conjures it in Paris, City of Night, which is about code (as in...
Dead Love: Dead Girls L...
Ahhhh, Voltaire, so moody, so gypsy, so quirky—the dead and the undead love him and his music. And he loves them. Well, he has a lot to say about the dead. The dead don’t say a thing, except maybe late at night when the lights are out in the morgue and the drawers open....
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They were ready to leave at five p.m. Two first-class seats had been reserved and that was a good thing, since the fat woman would not have fit into a coach seat. Ryu was worried, in fact, about getting her onto the plane. The desk clerk, whose name was Clément, was getting ready for a...