Danse Macabre: Close Encounters with the Reaper

Nancy Kilpatrick

2020年10月 · EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing

關於本電子書

This anthology is the most unusual and original collection of stories you’ll ever read! It is a literary version of Danse Macabre "Plague art". Twenty-six literary reflections that embody those themed, classical artworks devoted to the spectrum of humanity’s intriguing interactions with the Angel of Death.

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"People die from old age, illness, accident, violence, despair. They can die before they are born. The happy and the sad, the sane and insane, the rich and the poor, the law abiding and the criminal, the genius and the fool, the saint and the sinner. Some face death consciously, others die in their sleep. But we all die and Danse Macabre is a kind of universal melting pot for death. My goal is to create an anthology that is a literary version of the Danse Macabre artwork, showing the same range of humanity in a variety of situations and encounters with death." -- Nancy Kilpatrick

Includes works by:

Gabriel Boutros, Brad Carson, Suzanne Church, Dan Devine, Lorne Dixon, Tom Dullemond, Opal Edgar, Ian M. Emberson, Edward M. Erdelac, Sabrina Furminger, Stanley S. Hampton, Sr., Brian Hodge, Nancy Holder & Erin Underwood, J. Y. T. Kennedy, Nancy Kilpatrick, Tanith Lee, Brian Lumley, William Meikle, Lisa Morton, Tom Piccirilli, Morgan Dempsey, Timothy Reynolds, Angela Roberts, Lawrence Salani, Lucy Taylor, Bev Vincent, Bill Zaget.

關於作者

Award-winning author Nancy Kilpatrick has published 23 novels, 2 novellas, over 250 short stories, 7 collections of her stories, 1 non-fiction book (The Goth Bible) and has edited 15 anthologies. She writes mainly dark fantasy, horror, mysteries and erotica, and is currently working on two new novels, one the final novel in her Thrones of Blood series, the other a stand-alone SF/H novel. Her Power of the Blood series has been revised and updated and has been released as eBooks.

Nancy won the Arthur Ellis Award for best mystery story, has been a Bram Stoker finalist four times and a finalist for the Aurora Award seven times. Two of her anthologies, Danse Macabre and nEvermore! Tales of Murder, Mystery & the Macabre both won the Best Anthology of the Year from the Paris Book Festival, her short fiction collection Vampyric Variations won silver in the horror category of the ForeWord Reviewers Book of the Year Awards. She has also won 3 other short story contests. See her website for more information.