Today, AIPT can exclusively reveal three creators attached to the upcoming comics anthology Dead Detectives Society from Monstrous Books. Edited by James Aquilone, the project will feature a cover by John Jennings with interior art by Zac Atkinson, J.K. Woodward, and Jennings.
Launching June 6 on Kickstarter, three of the contributors include:
- “Last-Known Photo, A Sonja Blue Story” by Nancy A. Collins.
- “Mr. Cricket” by Joe R. Lansdale and Kasey Lansdale
- “The World Is a Secret” by Lisa Morton
According to editor James Aquilone, “Dead Detectives Society is a group of supernatural investigators. Throughout history and over countless dimensions, its members have taken the strangest and most bizarre cases. They are zombies and ghosts, ghouls and vampires and werewolves. Uncanny and uncategorized P.I.s. And they’ll all be collected in this one-of-a-kind anthology and future anthologies.”
As of this writing additional contributors include:
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Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I. (who has featured in nine novels and dozens of short stories by New York Times bestseller Kevin J. Anderson),
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Cal McDonald (Steve Niles’s occult detective whose adventures have been published by Dark Horse Comics and IDW Publishing)
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Saul When: Halloween Detective by John Jennings
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Jin G. Fox, Death Investigator by Rena Mason, based on a character from her story in the award-winning anthology Black Cranes.
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A reanimated Nick Carter by David Avallone, based on the character who appeared in the Nick Carter-Killmaster novels written by his father, Michael Avallone.

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