Dennis Etchison - The Blood Kiss

[andydecker]

Dennis Etchison – The Blood Kiss (Scream/Press 1988, 216 pages)



Cover found on the Net

Content:
J. K. Potter - interior artwork:  The Blood Kiss (frontispiece)
J. K. Potter - interior artwork: Call 666
Call 666 (1988)
A Nice, Shady Place (1963)
The Woman in Black (1984)
A Walk in the Wet (1967)
The Night of the Eye (1970)
J. K. Potter - interior artwork: The Night of the Eye
Dennis Etchison and Mark Johnson - The Spot (1980)
The Soft Wall (1974)
J. K. Potter - interior artwork: The Soft Wall
Somebody Like You (1984)
Bloodgame (1980) - variant of Game Plan
Deadspace (1985)
J. K. Potter - interior artwork:  Deadspace
Dennis Etchison and C. C. Palaski - Home Call (1983)
The Olympic Runner (1986)
J. K. Potter - interior artwork: The Blood Kiss
The Blood Kiss

This was the third collection of Etchison's short fiction. Seems it never found a mass market publisher, because this was the only edition for a long time. In 2017 Shadowridge Press did a reprint, but this is OOP.

Curiously there was a German translation in paperback in 1990, which omitted the Potter artwork.

[pbsplatter]

I have this one, although it's a more recent POD without the Potter artwork. 

I have vague memories of the first story being good in an apocalyptic way (amazing how early it is) but I look at the TOC and the titles just slide right off my brain. I know that "Someone Like You" is in one of the first two Masques, and I've read those a hundred times, but I couldn't tell you a single thing about it.

[jamesdoig]

I've got that, no I've no idea where from:





And this one, with an intro by Karl Edward Wagner: