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"A splatterpunk classic"

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A Sad Last Love at the Diner of the Damned

Edward Bryant

Get to know the author in a Wormhole exclusive interview

Cover Art: David Martin

Introduction: S. P. Somtow

Afterword: Edward Bryant

Published: June 2001 45 pages

Limited Edition: 750 chapbooks and 200 hardbacks signed by the author and sold individually, 250 chapbooks sold only in a boxed set

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ISBN 0-9709657-2-9

ISBN 0-9709657-3-7

A Classic of Splatterpunk...

"A Sad Last Love at the Diner of the Damned is widely considered a classic of splatterpunk, that sub-sub-genre that fluorished for one brief shining moment in the closing decade of the last century.... though Ed Bryant has chosen to express himself in some of the most in-your-face types of short story, he doesn't come from an in-your-face literary tradition; he's a writer of classical balance, poise, and restraint. If he didn't have this love of the sicker elements of our world, he'd probably be right up there with the Updikes and Irvings of the world, getting overpaid for dissecting the quiet angst of dysfunctional suburban families. Luckily for us... Ed's brand of deviant perversion has kept him and his classy writing style right here in the ghetto with the rest of us." S. P. Somtow

Edward Bryant Author Photo "I use horror to try to dig into my heart and gut instead of mining my head." Edward Bryant

An exclusive interview with Edward Bryant

Edward Bryant, multiple winner of the Nebula Award and the American Mystery Award, has published more than a dozen books, including Cinnabar, Wyoming Sun, and (written in collaboration with Harlan Ellison) Phoenix Without Ashes. He has written hundreds of short stories and articles, as well as reviewing extensively for Locus Magazine and Talebones. His stories have been adapted for CBS's The Twilight Zone and Lifetime's The Empty Room. The Baku, a story collection, was recently published by Subterranean Press. Later this year, Cemetery Dance will publish Flirting With Death, a major collection of dark suspense and horror fiction.

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