Pseudopod 422: Necrosisby
Dale Bailey.
“Necrosis” first appeared in the May/June 2012 issue of
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and reprinted in
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 24.
DALE BAILEY lives in North Carolina with his family, and has published three novels,
The Fallen,
House of Bones, and
Sleeping Policemen (with Jack Slay, Jr.). His short fiction, collected in
The Resurrection Man’s Legacy and Other Stories, has been a three-time finalist for the
International Horror Guild Award, a two-time finalist for the
Nebula Award, and a finalist for the
Shirley Jackson Award and the
Bram Stoker Award. His
International Horror Guild Award-winning novelette “
Death and Suffrage” was adapted by director Joe Dante as part of Showtime Television’s anthology series,
Masters of Horror. His collection,
The End of the End of Everything: Stories, will be out next March, with a novel,
The Subterranean Season, to follow.
Your reader –
Simon Meddings – is a writer, script writer and Podcaster. For 6 years he has produced and co-hosted the popular
Waffle On Podcast, and co-hosted the
Mash 4077 podcast. He has written several audio dramas and is currently in development with a television script set in Australia. Simon has read several audio stories for pseudopod and hopes to narrate more. He is the writer & Director at
Martian Creative.
“In retrospect none of us could say with any precision when it began. Condon had never been part of our set. Grandfathered into the club by one of those old robber barons whose fortunes had declined, he was essentially nondescript—capable of maintaining a decent conversation, pleasant enough to be around, but not the kind of man with whom one formed deep and lasting relationships.
When we met him, we were friendly. When we didn’t — which was the norm, Condon not being ubiquitous in our circles — we didn’t think of him at all. So it was hard to say, as we thought the thing through among ourselves, when precisely it had begun — a task complicated by the fact that none of us had known anything had begun, until it was over.”
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