IN THE LAND OF THE DEAD

Morrigan [1989], cover art unknown Onyx (1989), cover art [unknown]

First You Died. Then the Horror Began.

A GARDEN OF EDEN TURNED INTO A CORNER OF HELL

Once in the lush orange-growing country of California, the climate was perfect, the soil rich, the trees heavy with gorgeous fruit.

Now the people look like skeletons, walking across the barren, gray land with haunted eyes and hopeless faces.

Monstrous masters rule them in a reign of hideous cruelty and nightmare terror.

And most horrifying of all, in this place where death seems sweet, dying is no way out...

IN THE LAND OF THE DEAD
where only fear is alive!

" Years ago, I made a big, pissy announcement about leaving science fiction and going to horror fiction, partly because I had found a way of dealing with some material through horror fiction that I hadn't found a way of dealing with in science fiction. I went for five or six years without writing any science fiction. The books I wrote during that period I'm still pretty proud of. [..] I think my favorite is IN THE LAND OF THE DEAD, a novel created from a never-produced screenplay. It was a way of getting a handle on a body of material that had seemed a little bit shadowy and not quite graspable yet in science fiction." - K. W. Jeter "Most of the horror here is man's inhumanity to man, but the genre allows for a climax that's beyond mere psychosis. This one's a ripper." - Forced Exposure

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