Rabbit Hole VI In Time for Halloween? (Death and Vampire, Sirens Call Up Now)
RABBIT HOLE VI, with my story “Marcie and Her Sisters” (cf. October 12, September 18, et al.) is actually out for Halloween already, or at least for pre-order for electronic copies, but. . . . Well, let’s let Editor Tom Wolosz explain via this morning’s email:
The Rabbit Hole VI Destination:Journey ebook is available for preorder (October 31st release) from the following: Barnes and Noble Rakuten kobo Apple Books Scribd tolino OverDrive bibliotheca Baker and Taylor Odilo vivlio Borrow Box Smashwords Gardners.
Still waiting for Amazon. The book has been resubmitted since their initial block over one story being free online (it’s been taken down to conform with Amazon rules). I’ll let everyone know as soon as I do.
Hoping for the paperback to be available by the 31st, but I still haven’t gotten the proof copy.
Or, the imps of the internet have struck again — or is that only to be expected, given today’s closeness to Halloween. “Marcie and Her Sisters,” as a quick reminder, is the one about three not-so-old women who go to the zombie store to buy themselves husbands. It is being reprinted, having been originally published in REEL DARK (Blackwyrm Publishing, 2015).
On the other hand, the well-traveled Aimée of New Orleanian “Casket Girl” fame has already arrived, via the “mid 2021” WEIRDBOOK, in THE SIREN’S CALL special Halloween issue (cf. July 14). This one’s a freebie, for which you may press here.
Got it?
Okay, as you may notice it’s a LARGE issue at 344 tightly-packed, no-frills pages, with the story to find, “Death and the Vampire,” not until page 227. But worth the marathon scrolling, I hope (well, actually, I used an edit function with a “Find” button, but search for my name, not the word “vampire,” unless you’re okay with a LOT of stops in between). This is the one where Aimée, as she passes St. Louis Cemetery Number 1 on her way to the French Quarter, meets a tall man in a hooded black cloak carrying a scythe — and it’s too early, she notes, for Mardi Gras but also too late for Halloween.
Also, he may know more about vampires than it seems to her a person should.
