Saturday, February 5, 2022

Calcutta, Lord Of Nerves

Calcutta, you will say. What a place to have been when the dead began to walk.

And I reply, what better place to be? What better place than a city where five million people look as if they are already dead—might as well be dead—and another five million wish they were?

Poppy Z. Brite



8 comments:

Rot said...

If you click the zombie pic, that'll take you to a William Orbit song that has always reminded me of this Poppy Z. Brite story. A story about slow-moving zombies in an overcrowded city where we just coexist and allow them to eat the old and the weak.

Wren said...

Hey, no spoilers please!

Rot said...

haha

sorry!

Wren said...

Kidding! It’s like those people who get upset when you spoil the Sixth Sense, after 20 some years….how DARE you!

Rot said...

haha

I used to work with the worst woman in the WORLD (Literally). And she spoiled the ending of that film for me in the first two weeks it was out. She did so with relish and glee. I never forgave her for that. I fall for all of M. Night's tricks, and that, no doubt, would have been the best moment in my cinematic life.

Wren said...

Ohhh, there is a special place in hell for people like that.

Undeadpumpkinbread said...

Such a cool track! I think that would match really well with the story.

Rot said...

Oh it do. It do.

Plus it's just a coolio stand-alone song anyways. No zombies required.