Different Kinds of Dead, and Other Tales

[Read by a full cast including Rex Linn, Gabrielle de Cuir, Arte Johnson, Moira Quirk, Stefan Rudnicki, Stephen Hoye] This collection of short stories displays Ed Gorman's talents as a masterful storyteller across a range of genres.A mysterious and beautiful girl who teaches arrogant young men about true love, a lonely traveling salesman who learns that his passenger is death, children who can absorb the psychic pain of their parents, a desperately pursued serial killer who hides his face under gauze in a hospital room, and a woman who loves the alien infant nobody else wants -- these stories and ten others make up this collection by award-winning author Ed Gorman. Here are stories that led him to be called ''one of the best'' by Dean Koontz and ''one of the most original writers in crime fiction today'' by Kirkus Reviews. Here you'll find the extraordinary range of storytelling skill and powerful emotions that won Gorman the prized International Fiction Award.Included in Different Kinds of Dead, and Other Tales are ''Different Kinds of Dead,'' ''Deathman,'' ''A Girl like You,'' ''Loverboy,'' ''Muse,'' ''Riff,'' ''The Brasher Girl,'' ''Survival,'' ''Masque,'' ''The Second Most Popular,'' and others.This collection reveals the extraordinary range of storytelling skill and powerful emotions that won Gorman the prized International Fiction Award. His protagonists, gritty and gruff, are strangely likable, and his writing, according to Mystery News, is ''powerful, disturbing, [and] often poetic.''

About the Author

Ed Gorman is an award-winning American author best known for his crime, mystery, western, and horror fiction. He has won a Spur Award for best short Western fiction and the Anthony Award for best critical work and in 2011 received the Eye, the Life Achievement Award from the Private Eye Writers of America. His award nominations include the Edgar Award, Bram Stoker Award, and numerous Anthony Awards. He has written over one hundred novels and short stories under various pen names. His stories have appeared in numerous anthologies, including The Shamus Winners.

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