A while back, may be a month ago, a friend emailed me to say that he’d heard Alex Irvine read a new short story at one of Ellen Datlow‘s KGB readings. It was, he assured me, about zombies and damn fine in the extreme.

Now, you simply can not get too many tips like this, so I promptly emailed Gordon over at F & SF, who assured me that the story was in hand, and would be in print before too long. Well, when I got the January issue of F & SF last week and it contained Alex’s story “The Lorelei” I thought that this must be it. I read it and it is a very fine story. It lacks for little, but what it does lack is zombies. At first I wondered if my source had been mistaken, but then I saw over on Alex’s website that he has another story, “The Golem of Detroit”, due out from F & SF shortly. This is a very cool thing and I await it with some anticipation. And it occurs to me that, considering there’s already one fine Irvine story in the magazine in ’05, and another one on the way, shouldn’t you have subscribed?