Our next release is the first in our “Duel” Novella Series, bringing together Kim Paffenroth with a second printing of Orpheus and the Pearl, and David Dunwoody with a new story, Nevermore.

In 1920 Massachusetts, Dr. Catherine MacGuire is mysteriously called to the home of the famous Dr. Wallston, to assist with some medical emergency that defies even his skill. The life-threatening problems she finds there have less to do with broken bodies than with warped souls, and it will take all her dedication as a healer to fix them.

“With Orpheus and the Pearl, Kim Paffenroth has stepped up to the plate left vacant by the late Ray Russell, and hit one out of the park.”
- Gary A. Braunbeck, Stoker Award winning author of Mr. Hands

Nevermore, or Feast of Flesh

Malcolm Witt died in his sleep at 11:07 PM. Four minutes later, his body rose and walked from the room. Malcolm watched it happen. And so begins 48 hours of a life-after-death struggle to save his friends, forgive his love, and put himself to rest, body and soul.

“Simply put, David Dunwoody is one of the most imaginative dark fantasy writers working today.”
- Joe McKinney, author of Dead City and Quarantined

Eric Pollarine of Flames Rising recently posted an interview with author, Kim Paffenroth!

Kim’s novella Orpheus & The Pearl releases alongside David Dunwoody’s Nevermore in late September, and his novel Closes at Dusk is scheduled for September 2011.

It seems as if, at the time, both you and Permuted Press, along with Max Brooks and Bryan Keene, all hit the nail on the head when it comes to the public’s want, or need for all things flesh eating, as in the last 4-5 years everything seems to have involved zombies in some way. What is it about zombies Kim? Why do you think they fascinate and terrify us?

They’ve got some of the usual monster fears – of being killed, of being eaten, of turning into one of “them.” But they also have this overwhelming sense of ordinariness – of how we already are them, we just don’t realize it yet. You see them wandering in the mall, and it’s a nervous laugh you give, because you know you look just like them, to some other objective observer. That gives them a different, steadier kind of dread, rather than just the adrenaline rush of being chased and killed.

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