Short Works:"Home Delivery"
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"Home Delivery"
Fiction
Synopsis.
The protagonist of the story is Maddie Pace, a timid and indecisive young woman who lives on a small island named Gennesault (or "Jenny"), off the coast of
Maine. Maddie is both pregnant and a widow, having recently lost her husband in a
fishing boat accident.
After a scattering of initial outbreaks, dead bodies all over the world begin to reanimate
en masse and attack the living. The source of the phenomenon is eventually traced to a bizarre, presumably alien, construct in orbit high above the Earth's
south pole (more precisely "above the hole in the
ozone layer".)
First Appearance:
Book of the Dead
1989
Mark V. Ziesing Publishing
Subsequent Appearances:
Nightmares & Dreamscapes
US First Edition
September 29, 1993
Viking
Hardcover
Nightmares & Dreamscapes
UK First Edition, First State
October 1993
Hodder & Stoughton
Hardcover
Nightmares & Dreamscapes
UK First Edition, Second State
October 1993
Hodder & Stoughton
Hardcover
Nightmares & Dreamscapes
Gift Edition
1993
Hodder & Stoughton
Hardcover
Pulp Friction
1996
Souvenir Press
Hardcover
Pulp Frictions: Hardboiled Stories
1997
Barnes & Noble Books
Hardcover
Pulp Frictions: Hardboiled Stories
August 2004
Barnes & Noble Books
Paperback
Not listed: Lesser Nightmares & Dreamscapes editions.