Clinically Dead and Other Tales of the Supernatural by David A. Sutton - Screaming Dreams

Clinically Dead by David A. Sutton

Welcome to the infernal realm… The walking dead, shape-shifters, precognition, dreams and spiritual journeys, subterranean creatures, possession, ancient survivals and ghostly revenge. Ten weird tales of supernatural transformation, myth and obsession.

Introduction by Stephen Jones
Afterword by Joel Lane

Extract

Russell now knew for certain that it was the drugs that were causing the patients to rise up. There was too much unsupervised testing, too much willingness to inject and cut and excise. The painkillers and the narcotics were inside his mother, diluting her consciousness. No one would believe him, but he knew that, as with all the others, they had been slowly drawing off all her body fluids, in order to replace them with the secret substances that would animate her flesh once she was dead.

"The notion that NHS patients are guinea-pigs for experimental drugs may be partly satirical, but there’s no arguing with the grim emotional logic of this breathtakingly angry story" — Joel Lane

About the Author

David A. Sutton (b. 1947) was recognised for his devotion to and achievement in the genre over many years, with the British Fantasy Society’s ‘Special Award’ in 1994. He has also received the World Fantasy Award, The International Horror Guild Award and twelve British Fantasy Awards since 1978. His short stories have appeared in a number of periodicals and anthologies, including Skeleton Crew, Beyond, Kimota, Best New Horror 2 and 7, Final Shadows, Cold Fear, Taste of Fear, The Mammoth Book of Zombies, The Mammoth Book of Werewolves, The New Lovecraft Circle, Shadows Over Innsmouth, Beneath the Ground and When Graveyards Yawn. Plus more recent short story appearances in The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 19, The Fisherman published as a chapbook by Gothic Press, and stories in The Black Book of Horror series and Subtle Edens.

Author's Homepage : davidasutton.co.uk