Eden Book Society
Abby, Jessica and Ken are stuck in their hometown, living with their parents and working dead end jobs. When Jessica dies in a sudden violent accident, Abby and Ken cling onto their fractured friendship and try to adapt to life without her.
When Jessica arrives back at work one morning, nobody but Abby and Ken seems to realise she's been dead. As the three settle back into their old routines, Jessica starts to act strangely.
It seems like coming back from the dead isn't enough for her. But what is?
The Eden Book Society is a 'literary hoax' perpetuated by the publisher Dead Ink Books. The idea being that the 'Eden Family' published a series of subscription only horror novelettes each year from 1919 until 2006. To perpetrate their hoax Dead Ink have recruited a selection of pseudonymous authors - Chikodili Emelumadu, Grady Hendrix, Alison Rumfitt, Alex Pheby, Nina Allan, John Darnielle, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan & Kylie Whitehead - for this, the '1993 Collection'.
This second Eden Book novelette from the stack is a very different animal to the first I read and from my usual reading material. This is a much pulpier read than I normally go for but nonetheless I enjoyed it.
When one member of a small clique of friends returns from the dead with only the other two remembering the whole crashing, dying and being buried thing things are never going to go well especially as the newly resurrected Jessica is even more callous then before and has acquired a fondness for eating hman hair, oh, and revenge.
There's little time for explanation here so we never really earn any hows or whos or whys but it's wittily written and it never lets up it's breakneck speed until it reaches it's blood soaked finale.
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