"Lush, lyrical prose. Shepard was a master" - Amazon Reviewer, 5 stars
Dr Ezawa had made some remarkable discoveries about Voodoo beliefs... like how to create zombies.
The eyes of awoken dead now blaze a brilliant green. And one such 'zombie', the poet Harrison, doesn't want to remain a guinea pig. He wants to be alive. Breaking away from a bizarre scientific obsession, he begins to test his ever-growing powers on the superstitious Cajun swamp dwellers...
Lucius Shepard (1947 - 2014)
Lucius Shepard was born in the USA in 1947. From the mid-1960s to the early 1980s he lived in various parts of the world and travelled widely. He won the John W. Campbell Award for best new writer in 1985 and also won the World Fantasy Award twice. He died in 2014.