LIVING WITH THE DEAD by DARRELL SCHWEITZER. Wildside Press, 2021. First American edition. Illustrated by JASON VAN HOLLANDER, who has won two World Fantasy Awards as best artist. HARDCOVER With laminated boards. Without jacket as issued. There is also a trade paperback, published simultaneously. Reprint of the 2008 PS Publishing (UK) edition.

Introduction by TIM LEBBON. NEW, obtained direct from the publisher. A novella in 5 episodes, 3 of which were published in INTERZONE and given honorable mentions in the Datlow/Grant/Link THE YEAR'S BEST FANTASY AND HORROR. The other two episodes, which are a bit longer and form half the book, are published here for the first time. The whole tells a continuous story from multiple viewpoints of the breakdown of law and order in Old Corpsenburg, a mysterious town in a fog where the dead accumulate and people have to find places for ever-increasing numbers of corpses in their homes, schools, and shops, because that's the way things have always been done. Creepy and surreal. No, this is not a zombie story. No brains were eaten in the creation of this book. The work as a whole was a finalist for the SHIRLEY JACKSON AWARD this year. 

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