Monstrous Books Presents DEAD DETECTIVES SOCIETY on Kickstarter
An All-New Weird Pulp Anthology featuring 13 Original Stories by Kevin J. Anderson, Steve Niles, Nancy A. Collins, Joe R. Lansdale and Kasey Lansdale, Jonathan Maberry, and others
In the tradition of the great pulps of yesteryear, contemporary masters of the macabre Kevin J. Anderson, David Avallone, Nancy A. Collins, Nancy Holder & Alan Phillipson, John Jennings, Kasey Lansdale and Joe R. Lansdale, Rena Mason, Jonathan Maberry, Lisa Morton, Steve Niles, Jeff Strand,Tim Waggoner and writer and editor James Aquilone are joining forces for DEAD DETECTIVES SOCIETY. This one-of-a-kind anthology from Monstrous Books features a cover by Hugo Award-winner John Jennings and interior art by Zac Atkinson, J.K. Woodward and Jennings.
DEAD DETECTIVES SOCIETY is now funding on Kickstarter.
DEAD DETECTIVES SOCIETY gathers the greatest weird detectives in pulpdom, including:
Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I. (who has featured in nine novels and dozens of short stories by New York Times bestseller Kevin J. Anderson),
Cal McDonald (Steve Niles’s occult detective whose adventures have been published by Dark Horse Comics and IDW Publishing),
Matt Richter zombie detective who’s been featured in award-winning author Tim Waggoner’s Nekropolis series),
Sonja Blue (punk vampire hunter who has starred in four novels as well as short stories and comics from the Bram Stoker Award–winning author Nancy A. Collins),
and Dead Jack (the zombie detective who first appeared in Weird Tales magazine and has featured in three novels from Bram Stoker Award nominated editor and writer James Aquilone)
…and adds some new macabre investigators to their ranks, including:
A reanimated Nick Carter by David Avallone, based on the character who appeared in the novels written by his father, Michael Avallone.
Saul When: Halloween Detective by John Jennings and Jin G. Fox,
Death Investigator by Rena Mason, based on a character from her story in the award-winning anthology Black Cranes.
Story Teases:
“Mystery Meat: a Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I. Adventure” by Kevin J Anderson
Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I. is back from the dead and back on the case. In the Unnatural Quarter, inhabited by all manner of unusual people, Dan has to solve his wormiest case yet, when Mama Fly’s children go missing…and secretive industrial magnate Gold Boris launches a brand new “mystery meat” product that is taking the unnaturals by storm.
“Jin G. Fox, Death Investigator: Vixen Screams” by Rena Mason
Slain after receiving the dreaded fourth tail, the unrelenting vixen, Jin G. Fox is given another chance to earn her full powers back, as well as immortality, from the Queen Mother of the West by becoming a Death Investigator tasked with cleaning up 1900s San Francisco to make way for a “new” Chinatown.
“Half A Monster Is Better Than None” by Tim Waggoner
Zombie P.I. Matt Richter works the very mean streets of Nekropolis, an other-dimensional city full of monsters, ghosts, and witches. Matt’s latest client is a shifter with a unique problem. She’s a were-thylacine – an exceptionally rare breed – and someone has stolen her animal form, making it impossible for her to change shape. Even if Matt can figure out who stole her shifter form and why, how can he possibly reunite his client’s two halves and make her whole again? Good thing Matt’s already dead, or this case just might kill him.
“Snippy” by Jeff Strand
Timothy Perkins incorrectly promotes himself as the greatest detective who ever lived. His most marketable skill is his ability to wander into dangerous situations, because every time he’s killed he comes back to life. This advantage is offset by his occasional glimpses into The Void, where he screams in uncontrollable terror because there is no existence beyond our current realm. Hopefully he can get his client’s dog back.
“The Case of the Ravenous Werewolf” by James Aquilone
Dead Jack has a dilemma on his hands when a creepy werewolf asks the zombie detective to kill him. The fairy-dust-addicted P.I. must decide to become an assassin or allow dozens of innocent fairies to get devoured.
“This anthology gave me a chance to write a character my father rebooted in 1964,” says David Avallone, who has (literally) reanimated Nick Carter for a new adventure, “and bridge together two pieces of detective genre history that have been begging to be connected ever since…in a short story that should, if I’m successful, remind readers of the particular pulp fiction genius and madness of Michael Angelo Avallone”
“Dead Detectives Society is my pulpy passion project,” says editor James Aquilone. “With this annual anthology I hope to expand the weird detective subgenre and have a blast while doing it.” Aquilone’s first two anthologies — both of which were crowdfunded on Kickstarter — are currently nominated for awards. The KOLCHAK graphic novel is nominated for a Bram Stoker Award, Rondo Hatton Award and an Imadjinn Award, while CLASSIC MONSTERS UNLEASHED is nominated for a Rondo and Imadjinn Award.
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