Editor James Aquilone has created a number of highly-successful Kickstarter anthologies over the previous few years, together with the fiftieth anniversary graphic novel for Kolchak: The Night Stalker and a horror assortment of tales based mostly on the work of William Shakespeare. The prelaunch web page for Aquilone’s newest anthology venture, Dead Detectives Society, is dwell now, described as a group “13 new stories featuring supernatural private investigators” from creators together with Kevin J. Anderson and Steve Niles. Today The Beat is happy to reveal a couple of extra of the creators contributing to the anthology: John Jennings, Rena Mason, and David Avallone.
Here’s data on the trio of tales these creators will probably be contributing to Dead Detectives Society:
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- Saul When: Halloween Detective by John Jennings
- Jin G. Fox, Death Investigator by Rena Mason, based mostly on a personality from her story within the award-winning anthology Black Cranes
- A reanimated Nick Carter by David Avallone, based mostly on the character who appeared within the Nick Carter-Killmaster novels written by his father, Michael Avallone.
“I’m very excited about Saul When, Jin G. Fox, and the reanimated Nick Carter,” editor Aquilone instructed The Beat. “Along with the established characters like Kevin J. Anderson’s Dan Shamble and Steve Niles’ Cal McDonald, I wanted Dead Detectives Society to include new characters or new twists on old characters that could be further explored in future anthologies and hopefully spawn their own franchises. Saul When, Jin G. Fox, and Carter blew away my expectations. I’m very fortunate to have their debuts in this book, and I look forward to their next chapters.”
Avallone additionally expressed enthusiasm to The Beat at bringing Nick Carter again for the brand new anthology. “This anthology gave me a chance to write a character my father rebooted in 1964,” he mentioned, “and bridge together two pieces of detective genre history that have been begging to be connected ever since…in a short story that should, if I’m successful, remind readers of the particular pulp fiction genius and madness of Michael Angelo Avallone.”
Check out paintings of Nick Carter by artist Zack Atkinson beneath, and maintain an eye fixed out for the launch of the Kickstarter marketing campaign for Dead Detectives Society. You can join notifications on their prelaunch web page now.
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