《The Bereavement Photographe》作者： - Steve Rasnic Tem【EPUB】

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The Bereavement Photographer By Steve Rasnic Tern * * * * A regular contributor to the Best New Horror series, Steve Rasnic Tern’s stories and poetry have recently appeared in the revived Argosy magazine and the anthologies Quietly Now, Taverns of the Dead, The Many Faces of Van Helsing and The Devil’s Wine. A chapbook entitled The World Recalled was published by Wormhole Books, and a collection of his selected poetry, The Hydrocephalic Ward, appeared from Dark Regions Press. “I’ve wanted to write this story for a long time,” explains Tem about his contribution to this volume. “I was looking for a container for some of the things I had observed with grieving parents, with people dealing with loss in general. “I’ve also always been fascinated by those photographs of the dead taken in the early years of this country - often retouched by painting pupils on the permanently closed eyelids. Dead children dressed up like ‘little angels’. Dead children looking as if they’d been unable to stay awake for their important, formal portraits. The way parents deal with what cannot be dealt with, finally, without being changed for ever. “When I found out that a contemporary version of these photographs exists today, the story came about not without effort, but also without my ability to halt it.” * * * * “So, have you been doing this a while now?” “A few years.” “Sorry for asking, and tell me if