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: Zombie Jambo...
Zombie party! At least in Trinidad where “Zombie Jamboree, the Song That Killed Calypso” was created in 1955 by Lord Invader and his Twelve Penetrators. Yes, that’s true. I am not making that up. Sexy little back-up candle carriers replaced zombies in its performance by...
Dead Love: In Haiti
In the weekly Dead Love serialization, Ryu has followed Miura to Haiti where he is swept up into the world of vodou (also voodoo). He’s taken to a hounfour, a gathering of a Vodou société, where old Ronan is about to save a woman possessed by a spirit. Fact or fiction? Fact, of...
Dead Love: This Corpse ...
Tell me my dear, can a heart still break once it’s stopped beating? Hm? —Barkis Bittern, Corpse Bride Of course it can. It’s as if he read my mind. This is the story I love so much. So dark, so sad, so full of heart. Poor Emily, she needs saving and Victor has that within his...
Dead Love: The Zombie S...
Zombie Walk, lurch, march, crawl, shuffle—you’d be amazed how often the zombie underground rises to the occasion these days. In case you didn’t know, zombies gather regularly in seemingly spontaneous fashion all over the world to rub shoulders and other moldering body parts...
6. Hide and Seek (4)
Old Ronan escorted Ryu into the candlelit den where a gargantuan woman lay on a table in the center of a swaying and shuffling crowd. “She is sick,” whispered Ronan, his voice thin and dry. “I will heal her.” Drumbeats and low chanting, almost a crooning, rocked the room. Then a woman in...
Dead Love: Brain Candy
Brains, brains, brains … on the hunt for a little brain candy?? Yum. Here’s the not-so-secret recipe—two, actually. The first uses Alizé, the cognac-based liquor … very popular these days. The second is basically coffee with a blood-red kick. OK, it is a little...
Dead Love: Strange Star...
“Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.” —William S. Burroughs Beastie Boy rapper Adam Yauch is releasing a documentary about William S. Burroughs. Burroughs, a Beat with amazing staying power, despite crimes, misdemeanors and major addictions … he died in 1997 … was revered by...