{"id":5847,"date":"2012-03-13T20:36:22","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T00:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=5847"},"modified":"2012-03-13T20:36:22","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T00:36:22","slug":"in-which-my-zombie-fiction-is-declared-unusual-and-unforgettable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2012\/03\/13\/in-which-my-zombie-fiction-is-declared-unusual-and-unforgettable\/","title":{"rendered":"In which my zombie fiction is declared unusual and unforgettable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at the <a href=\"http:\/\/thenightlandjournal.com\/?p=3198\">Night Land Journal<\/a>, my  short story  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/writing\/short-fiction\/what-will-come-after\/\">\u201cWhat Will Come After\u201d<\/a>  was praised as the result of its recent reprinting in Stephen Jones&#8217; latest best horror of the year anthology:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One of the most unusual zombie stories I\u2019ve ever read is Scott Edelman\u2019s \u201cWhat Will Come After,\u201d which I just read as the lead story in <em>The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror<\/em> #22 &#8230; <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat Will Come After\u201d got under my skin and into my blood faster than any zombie virus ever could. It\u2019s a live human and undead zombie story all mixed together. Actually, it\u2019s more of a meditation on inevitability than anything else. I found it both frail and strong at the same time&#8212;all very affective and certainly unforgettable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you can&#8217;t find a copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Mammoth-Book-Best-Horror\/dp\/0762442700\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1331684955&#038;sr=8-1\"><em>The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror<\/em> #22<\/a>, you can always catch up with the story in my all-zombie collection of the same name, either in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pspublishing.co.uk\/what-will-come-after-jhc-by-scott-edelman-703-p.asp\">print edition<\/a> or as an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pspublishing.co.uk\/what-will-come-after-ebook-by-scott-edelman-752-p.asp\">ebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/c32385.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/c32385-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"WhatWillComeAfter\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/c32385-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/c32385.jpg 316w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The review is credited only to &#8220;DC5,&#8221; so I don&#8217;t know quite whom to thank, so  whoever you are, all I can say is&#8212;you&#8217;ve got &#8230; <em>BRAINZ!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at the Night Land Journal, my short story \u201cWhat Will Come After\u201d was praised as the result of its recent reprinting in Stephen Jones&#8217; latest best horror of the year anthology: One of the most unusual zombie stories I\u2019ve ever read is Scott Edelman\u2019s \u201cWhat Will Come After,\u201d which I just read as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[67,29,77,92],"class_list":["post-5847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-horror","tag-my-writing","tag-what-will-come-after","tag-zombies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}