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[Dr. Drib]

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[salty-horse]

The Resurrection Man's Legacy by Dale Bailey is $2 on Amazon.com (only)

A breathtaking collection of wonders and horrors—including robotic surrogate parents and zombie voters—from a new acknowledged master of darkest fantasy

Whether speculating on an all-too-possible future or plumbing the stygian depths of supernatural evil and human degradation, Dale Bailey’s award-winning short fiction has been justifiably compared to the work of some of the true giants in the field—Ray Bradbury, Stephen King, and Theodore Sturgeon, to name but a few. In this first collection of astonishing stories, the acclaimed author of the modern horror masterworks The Fallen and House of Bones demonstrates his remarkable range with tales that exhilarate, terrify, and touch the soul.

A young boy comes of age on a secluded farm that grows a particularly grisly crop. The dead rise up to cast their ballots in a close presidential election. An assassin plots his next kill from inside the body of someone frighteningly close to the victim. An African American census taker discovers a hidden bayou town where time has stopped at a nightmarish point in history. Bailey takes readers inside the tents of a circus of shadows and explores an expectant father’s dark and terrible legacy for his unborn child. This extraordinary collection runs the gamut from fantasy to horror, from science fiction to heartbreaking reality, speaking in voices, old and young, that brilliantly capture the light and the darkness of their ingeniously imagined worlds. Includes the Nebula Award–nominated novelette, “The Resurrection Man’s Legacy.”

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

The Resurrection Man's Legacy by Dale Bailey is $2 on Amazon.com (only)

Decades ago read his House of Bones. I mainly remember being disappointed that it didn't live up to it's excellent premise. Should I try again?

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Decades ago read his House of Bones. I mainly remember being disappointed that it didn't live up to it's excellent premise. Should I try again?

I like award-winning fiction:

"His short fiction, collected in The Resurrection Man’s Legacy and Other Stories, has won the International Horror Guild Award..."

However, I do not yet own this collection. That situation will soon be rectified.

ADDED: I DO own The Ghoul Goes West, by Bailey and billed as a novelette. I'm going to read that as soon as I finish an excellent indie collection of short stories by a different author: She Carries the Cosmos, by Kyle J. Durrant. I have one last story to read, and I highly recommend this collection of stories by Durrant.

[salty-horse]

The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley is $2 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)
Review by Ian Mond

An eerie, suspenseful, gothic debut novel. Winner of the Costa First Novel Award

“An amazing piece of fiction.”—Stephen King

When Smith was a boy, he and his family went on an Easter pilgrimage with their local parish to the Loney, a bleak stretch of the English coastline, to visit an ancient shrine in search of healing for Smith’s disabled brother. But the locals were none too pleased to welcome them, and the two brothers soon became entangled in a troubling morass of dangerous rituals.

For years after, Smith carries the burden of what happened that spring. And when he hears that the body of a young child has been found during a storm at the Loney, he’s forced to finally reckon with his darkest secrets—and the terror they carry with them.

[Dr. Drib]

I just discovered this online magazine: 34 Orchard.

There are 11 issues thus far (I think), and all are FREE in downloadable PDF. There is an OPTION to donate $1.99 per issue if you so desire.

I downloaded one just to see how enjoyable it might be.

Here's the link:

https://34orchard.com/issues/