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Rigor Amortis edited by Jaym Gates and Erika Holt Pages: 148 FICTION / Erotica – Anthologies FICTION / Horror – Anthologies (Flash Fiction / Zombie) FIC005530, FIC015510 Release Dates: October 1, 2010 (14.95) Re-released October 1, 2011 (9.95) Print ISBN: 978-1-894063-63-0 ($ 9.95) Print ISBN: 978-1-894817-83-7 ($ 14.95) E-Book ISBN: 978-1-894817-84-4 ($ 5.99)

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Description:

Horror and erotica. Zombies and romance. Rigor Amortis.

Maybe a tender love story is your thing, a husband doting on his wife’s rotting corpse. Or perhaps a forbidden encounter in a secret café, serving up the latest in delectable zombie cuisine, or some dirty, dirty dancing in the old-time honky-tonk. Voodoo sex-slaves and vending machine body-parts? You’ll find those here, too.

Whatever your flavor, these short tales of undead Romance, Revenge, Risk, and Raunch will leave you shambling, moaning, and clawing for more.

Contributors: AUTHORS: Pete “Patch” Alberti, Damon B, Renée Bennett, Xander Briggs, Jennifer Brozek, J. R. Campbell, Johann Carlisle, Nathan Crowder, Carrie Cuinn, R. Schuyler Devin, Annette Dupree, Michael Ellsworth, Jay Faulkner, Kaolin Imago Fire, M. G. Gillett, Sarah Goslee, Kay T. Holt, Calvin D. Jim, Alex Masterson, Edward Morris, Don Pizarro, Michael Phillips, John Nakamura Remy, V. R. Roadifer, Andrew Penn Romine, Armand Rosamilia, Jacob Ruby, Steven James Scearce, Lance Schonberg, Lucia Starkey, R. E. VanNewkirk, Wendy N. Wagner. EDITORS: Jaym Gates, Erika Holt. ARTISTS: Robert “Nix” Nixon, Galen Dara, Miranda Jean. PUBLISHER: Brian Hades, Absolute XPress

About the Editors:

Jaym Gates
Jaym Gates started out a writer, added reporting, administrating and promotional work, and then made a joke on twitter and became an editor. Now she edits Little Death of Crossed Genres and is the Publicity Manager for Raw Dog Screaming Press, among other things. Unable to choose a genre, she labels her writing New Weird, throws it in the spec-lit bowl, and tosses it with dusty butcher knives. Twitter: @jaymgates Blog: wingsliftingwide.wordpress.com

Erika Holt
Erika Holt had the good sense to abandon her lucrative career as a civil litigation lawyer to become an under (or un-) paid editor and writer of speculative fiction. She spends most of her time living in strange lands, accompanied by witches, monsters, heroes, and other creatures, but maintains a few earthly obsessions, including NHL hockey, music, reality television talent competitions, and painting her toenails strange colors. Twitter: @erikaholt

About the Authors:

Pete “Patch” Alberti
Pete “Patch” Alberti shares a small but decidedly interesting apartment in Southern California with two cats and one human. Who owns who is a subject of much debate, and always in flux. When not writing fiction, Pete writes computer code. The two are remarkably similar, though he recommends careful compartmentalizing. (There was an incident with a sword of be-spelling and a server which is best left untold.) Pete enjoys playing games, baking cookies, critiquing the politics of fantasy novels, and hiding under the bed with his cat when guests arrive. Twitter: @patchworkpete Blog: bitromantic.com Website: patchworkpete.com/

Damon B
Damon B is an Antipodean creature who roams the world and drives out the tedium of a daytime desk job with tales of zombies, tattoo cults and life after The Apocalypse. He also features online at Macabre Cadaver with his piece “Inkorporated”.

Renée Bennett
Renée Bennett lives and writes in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She’s had her work appear in such diverse places as CBC Radio, Realms of Fantasy, and Year’s Best Fantasy, and she sincerely hopes this continues. This anthology represents a number of firsts for her, including her first e-sale and her first erotica piece, not to mention her first flash-fiction piece; the last fair boggles her mind, because she normally doesn’t inhale in less than a thousand words.

Xander Briggs
Xander Briggs lives and writes in the Florida panhandle, where he is absolutely prepared in case of an undead uprising. Twitter: @xanderbriggs

Jennifer Brozek
Jennifer Brozek is an award-winning author and editor, slush reader and small press publisher. She has been writing role-playing games and professionally publishing fiction since 2004. With a number of edited anthologies, fiction books, RPG books, and short stories under her belt, Jennifer is often considered a Renaissance woman, but prefers to be known as a wordslinger and optimist. Twitter: @jenniferbrozek Blog: jennifer-brozek.livejournal.com

J. R. Campbell
J. R. Campbell’s works have appeared in a variety of magazines, anthologies, and on radio’s Imagination Theater. The works he would most like to direct your attention to are W.H. Horner’s Fantastical Visions IV and the Gaslight books: Gaslight Grimoire: Fantastic Tales of Sherlock Holmes and Gaslight Grotesque: Nightmare Tales of Sherlock Holmes. He is currently co-editing a third collection of Sherlock Holmes stories with his friend Charles Prepolec. Blog: gaslightgrimoire.blogspot.com

Johann Carlisle
Johann Carlisle is a Machiavellian illusion created to serve as the corporeal avatar of a sentient artificial intelligence that may or may not be of terrestrial origin. He is being watched. His short fiction has been published in markets such as The Future Fire, Black Petals, The Harrow, and Sein und Werden. Twitter: @johanncarlisle Blog: johanncarlisle.blogspot.com

Nathan Crowder
Nathan Crowder is a Seattle author with Southwest roots, and has a dark sense of humor and love for the macabre. In addition to his Cobalt City universe of super-hero novels, his work has appeared most recently in the anthologies Close Encounters of the Urban Kind and Crossed Genres: Year One. His urban sci-fi tale “Deacon Carter’s Last Dime” was selected for the South Notable Stories of 2009 long list. Twitter: @natecrowder Website: nathancrowder.com

Carrie Cuinn
Carrie Cuinn is a speculative fiction writer, art historian specializing in Early American books and prints, and amiable raconteur. In her spare time she reads, reviews books, takes pictures, cooks, and sometimes gets a new tattoo. Twitter: @inkedhistorian Website: carriecuinn.com

R. Schuyler Devin
R. Schuyler Devin prefers to walk the halls of his own imagining rather than the dark alleyways of his past. He’s a writer, musician, and brazen geek, who lives under the silver skies of Washington State with his tireless wife and dynamic daughter. Twitter: @rsdevin Blog: rsdevin.vox.com

Annette Dupree
Annette Dupree lives on the Washington coast dreaming of the day she can quit her day job and have nubile cuties tend to her every need. For fun, she likes having sex while watching horror movies. Alien is her personal favorite. Twitter: @annette_dupree Blog: annettedupree.wordpress.com

Michael Ellsworth
Michael Ellsworth read J. R. R. Tolkien at age 8 while surviving pneumonia and social isolation in rural Kentucky, and this resulted in a love of linguistics and fiction, where even the world is up for grabs. He went to college by accident. After sufficient convolution, he escaped to California and became a linguist. Sometimes he writes by accident. It’s all Tolkien’s fault.

Jay Faulkner
Jay Faulkner resides in Northern Ireland though home is wherever his loved ones are–his wife, best-friend, and soul mate, Carole, and their two wonderful baby boys, Mackenzie and Nathaniel. While he’s a writer, martial artist, sketcher, and dreamer, he’s mostly just a husband and father.

Jay’s short stories have been published widely both online and in print anthologies, and he is currently working on his first novel, Wednesday’s Child. Twitter: @thejayfaulkner Blog: jayfaulkner.com/blog

Kaolin Imago Fire
Kaolin Imago Fire is a conglomeration of ideas, side projects, and experiments. Outside of his primary occupation, he also develops computer games, edits GUD Magazine, and very occasionally teaches computer science. He has had short fiction published in Strange Horizons, Bull Spec, and Crossed Genres, among others. Twitter: @kaolinfire Website: erif.org

M. G. Gillett
M. G. Gillett is a Calgary writer and this is his first publication, though he’s won and placed several times in short story competitions held in Calgary. He loves the idea of a Canadian style of writing–not to imply that Canadians prefer the dead as their medium, but that Canada has some real living talent with amazing original ideas.

Sarah Goslee
Sarah Goslee is well on her way to mad-scientisthood, having taught her dog to purr and her cat to play fetch. She works in a mysterious government research lab by day, and writes speculative fiction and SF-related nonfiction by night. Her work has appeared in Crossed Genres and Clarkesworld, and she is a regular contributor to the Science in My Fiction series. Twitter: @phiala Blog: sarahgoslee.com

Kay T. Holt
While in school, Kay T. Holt was described as “incorrigible”, and she’s been a living definition of that ever since. She loves deserts far more than she enjoys desserts, and if the opportunity arose, she’d trade a lifetime eating the latter for a lifetime dwelling in the former. She’s known for being maniacally kind and ruthlessly irregular. Her writing has appeared in M-Brane SF, Tweet the Meat, and in the forthcoming Beauty Has Her Way anthology. She is co-founder and editor of Crossed Genres SF/F magazine, and runs the Science in My Fiction Blog. She lives outside Boston with her giant husband, their genius child, and two monstrous cats. She loves science and art, and uses both in her writing. She plans to save the world someday. Twitter: @sandykidd Blog: subvertthespace.com/kayholt

Calvin D. Jim
Calvin D. Jim was born in Montreal, Quebec, the only child of Chinese and Japanese parents. But he only speaks English. In other words, he is a truly Canadian mutt. Calvin writes Asian fantasy fiction and this is his first published story. While not sneaking away from home to write, you can find Calvin toiling away as a paralegal. He lives in Calgary with his wife and two boys, but no pets or garden gnomes. Blog: asian-echoes.blogspot.com

Alex Masterson
Alex Masterson would like to talk a little bit about himself, but the last time he did, his psychiatrist chased him out of the building with a stapler. Twitter: @Al_Masterson Blog: alexmasterson.wordpress.com

Edward Morris
Edward Morris is a 2005 BSFA nominee, also nominated for the 2009 Rhysling. His work has appeared in Interzone, Helix, Arkham Tales and many other publications worldwide. His series, There Was a Crooked Man, will be released from Mercury Retrograde Press fall 2010. Blog: edwardmorrisjr.blogspot.com

Michael Phillips
Michael Phillips is an odd fellow from Tampa, Florida, who manages to write dark works of fiction that are strangely beautiful and, when zombies are involved, his work is disturbingly erotic. At least, that’s what people tell him. His writing is deeply inspired by M, whom he loves beyond measure. Twitter: @wholeexpanse Website: lithiumcreations.com

Don Pizarro
Don Pizarro has been subsisting on red-eyes and gallows humor since 1973. His work has appeared at Fantasy Magazine, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Everyday Weirdness, Reflection’s Edge, and other places. He lives and writes in upstate New York. Twitter: @donp Blog: warmfuzzyfreudianslippers.com

Armand Rosamilia
Armand Rosamilia is a native New Jersey boy currently living in sunny Florida, where he chases his loving children, bothers his fiancée Kim, and watches the Boston Red Sox devoutly. He has several releases, including an urban horror novella, Death Metal, from Sam’s Dot Publishing, an upcoming extreme zombie novella, Highway To Hell, from Rymfire eBooks, and several short stories in places like Twisted Dreams Magazine, Daily Bites of Flesh, and more. Twitter: @armandauthor

John Nakamura Remy
John Nakamura Remy is a graduate of the Clarion West 2010 workshop. He writes about things like Jesus and mushrooms and octopods and sex, sometimes in separate stories. He lives with his Dalek-loving children and his digital humanist partner in Orange County, California. Twitter: @johnremy Blog: mindonfire.com

V. R. Roadifer
V. R. Roadifer is a Northwest writer of fantasy, science-fiction, and paranormal mysteries. She gets her writing inspiration both from dreams and her real-life experiences as a Wiccan mystic. Twitter: @vandamir Blog: vandamir.livejournal.com

Andrew Penn Romine
Andrew Penn Romine is a writer and visual effects artist living in Los Angeles, California with a wife and four cats (none of whom are undead). He is a graduate of the 2010 Clarion West Writers Workshop. Twitter: @inkgorilla Blog: inkgorilla.blogspot.com

Jacob Ruby
Jacob Ruby lives in Kansas City with his wife, who is also a writer. He received his BFA in painting, is a 3D illustrator and animator by trade, and spends the rest of his creative energies working on sci-fi, fantasy, and horror stories. Twitter: @jacobruby Website: JacobRuby.com

Steven James Scearce
Steven James Scearce is a writer by profession. He is a former journalist and assistant editor for a Midwestern arts and entertainment magazine. At present, he concentrates most of his creative efforts on the sci-fi web fiction series, Unknown Transmission. He resides in Kansas City. Twitter: @ShinkaiMaru5 Blog: unknowntransmission.com

Lance Schonberg
Lance Schonberg lives in eastern Ontario, Canada with his wife, children, feline overlords, and a growing menagerie of small pets. Previous careers include bookseller, cubicle dweller, number cruncher, and craps dealer. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in a number of print and online publications. Twitter: @writingdad Blog: smallrealities.wordpress.com

Lucia Starkey
Lucia Starkey was born yesterday and died October 16, 2004. None of this helped with writing zombie erotica, though death has given her an interesting perspective on romance. “Erzuli’s Chosen Few” will be her first published story, and Lucia would like to thank all the writers and editors who made this collection possible. Twitter: @scourger Blog: luciastarkey.com

R. E. VanNewkirk
R. E. VanNewkirk lives in Charlotte, N.C. with his cat, Elvis. “Syd’s Turn” is his first submitted work. He maintains that I Walked With A Zombie isn’t really as good as Night of the Demons or Cat People. Twitter: @sotsogm Blog: shouldersofgiantmidgets.blogspot.com

Wendy N. Wagner
Wendy N. Wagner grew up right next door to a cemetery. It was the closest thing to a playground in her tiny hometown, which didn’t even have its own grocery store. When she isn’t writing horror and dark fantasy fiction, you can find her preparing her pantry for the impending zombie apocalypse or studying the history of evil. Her fiction has appeared in Crossed Genres magazine and the anthology 2012AD, and she has a story in the forthcoming The Way of the Wizard anthology (Prime Books). Her first novel, Her Dark Depths, will be released in Fall 2011 from small press Virtual Tales. Twitter: @winnie3k Blog: operabuffo.blogspot.com

About the Cover Artist:

Robert “Nix” Nixon
Robert “Nix” Nixon left the warm bosom of his family in pastoral Ohio to take up residence in a decrepit, rusting Detroit warehouse. The volatile stew of his brain, festering with Russ Meyer movies, zombies, and hot-rods, has been tamed by years of design experience. Today he produces bizarre, creepy, and sometimes hilarious images that are distinctly his. He also likes bacon a little too much (if you catch his vernacular). Website: robertpaulnixon.com

About the Interior Artists:

Galen Dara
Galen Dara likes to sit in the dark with her sketchbook mining the nooks and crannies. She loves skeptics, mystics, storytellers, and image-makers. Twitter: @galendara Blog: miningthenooks.blogspot.com

Miranda Jean
Miranda Jean is a varied Artist currently living in Scotland. After long interest in illustration she finally came across the perfect opportunity to get involved…in the form of a zombie romance/erotica anthology. Miranda sometimes wonders what her brain is playing at and writing in the third person is not helping. She thinks she might go and lie down for a bit now. Twitter: @fluffgar Website: mirandajean.carbonmade.com