We all know about the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Death, War, Famine, and Pestilence riding on pale horses and all that Book-of-Revelation stuff. But why does it have to be four guys on horses? Why not the Four Cheerleaders of the Apocalypse? The Four Cats of the Apocalypse? The Four PTA Moms of the Apocalypse? The Four Lawyers, Librarians, or Lunch Ladies of the Apocalypse? The Four Drummers, Rock Stars, or Opera Singers of the Apocalypse? Or even the Four Squirrels of the Apocalypse or the Four Emojis of the Apocalypse? And so we present The Four ???? of the Apocalypse, as twenty-nine brilliant authors give us alternate takes on the legendary quartet of end-of-the-world avatars.
Anthology Contributors:
David Mack; Seanan Mc Guire; Mary Fan; Jody Lynn Nye; Derek Tyler Attico; Peter David; Aaron Rosenberg; Laura Anne Gilman; Danielle Ackley-Mc Phail; Gordon Linzner; Michael Jan Friedman; Jenifer Purcell Rosenberg; Michael A. Ventrella; Gerard Houarner; Megan Mackie; Adam-Troy Castro; Gail Z. Martin; Hildy Silverman; Robert Greenberger; James D. Macdonald; Dayton Ward; Kevin Dilmore; Patrick Thomas; Ross Colchamiro; David Gerrold.
Innehållsförteckning
The Apocalypse Will Be Televised – David Mack
Well, That Escalated Quickly – Seanan Mc Guire
The Four Opera Singers of the Apocalypse – Mary Fan
Apocatlypse – Jody Lynn Nye
The Four Stages of the Apocalypse – Derek Tyler Attico
A Priest, a Rabbi, a Shinshoku, and an Imam Walk Into… – Peter David
Blank Slates – Aaron Rosenberg
For Whom the Bell Tolls – Laura Anne Gilman
The Four Swords of the Apocalypse: A Tale of Kagen the Damned – Jonathan Maberry
The Fifth Horseman – Randee Dawn
To Brandish a White Ladle: A Chronicle of the Four Lunch Ladies of the Apocalypse – Danielle Ackley-Mc Phail
Fate of the Final Four (a Fatalist Fable) – Gordon Linzner
The Four Harschmans of the Apocalypse – Michael Jan Friedman
Your Apocalypse Will Be Handled by the Next Available Representative -Wrenn Simms
HHH 666 – Jenifer Purcell Rosenberg
Horseman, Horseman, Horseman, & Horseman, Attorneys-at-Law – Michael A. Ventrella
The Four Squirrels of the Apocalypse – Gerard Houarner
The Four Angels of the Apocalypse – Megan Mackie
The Arrival of Amber – Adam-Troy Castro
Overdue – Gail Z. Martin
The Four Bachelors of the Apocalypse – Hildy Silverman
The Four Cheerleaders of the Apocalypse
Robert Greenberger – What Do You Want from Me, I’m Old: A Tale of the Four Septuagenarians of the Apocalypse – Keith R.A. De Candido
Four Entrees – James D. Macdonald
Prepocalypse Now – Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore
Live, Laugh, Apocalypse: A Tale of the Four Karens of the Apocalypse – Patrick Thomas
We Got the Beat – Russ Colchamiro
The Four Course Men – David Gerrold
Putting Doom on Paws -Aaron Rosenberg
Om författaren
Keith R.A. De Candido has been in his career an author, editor, critic, podcaster, library worker, gallery curator, TV personality, Census worker, musician, and martial artist. He has edited more than a score of anthologies (both publicly and behind the scenes), including several in the media universes of Star Trek, Doctor Who, and Marvel Comics, as well as the 2023 anthology Double Trouble: An Anthology of Two-Fisted Team-Ups (co-edited with Jonathan Maberry). He has also written sixty novels, a hundred short stories, fifty comic books, and more nonfiction than he’s comfortable counting. Recent and upcoming work includes the fantasy novels Phoenix Precinct and Feat of Clay, both part of ongoing series; the Resident Evil comic book Infinite Darkness: The Beginning, a prequel to the Netflix animated series; the Star Trek Adventures role-playing game module Incident at Kraav III (with Fred Love); the urban fantasy short story collection Ragnarok and a Hard Place: More Tales of Cassie Zukav, Weirdness Magnet; short fiction in Star Trek Explorer magazine and in the anthologies Weird Tales: 100 Years of Weird, Sherlock Holmes: Cases by Candlelight Volume 2, Three Time Travelers Walk Into…, Joe Ledger: Unbreakable, the Thrilling Adventure Yarns series, the Phenomenons shared-world superhero series created by Michael Jan Friedman, and The Good, the Bad, and the Uncanny. He and Wrenn Simms formed Whysper Wude LLC in 2021, for which The Four ???? of the Apocalypse is their inaugural publication. Find out less at De Candido.net.