Isis Unbound - Softcover

Allyson Bird

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1937128008 ISBN 13: 9781937128005

Publisher: Dark Regions Press, 2012

Synopsis

Winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel. Inspired in part by Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Percy Bysshe Shelley's, Prometheus Unbound, and the works of Rider Haggard and R. E. Howard, Isis Unbound is set in an alternate history, steampunk version of 1890's Manceastre, Britanniae, ruled by a new governor general related to a descendant of Anthony and Cleopatra, who won the battle of Actium two thousand years ago, and where the ancient Egyptian gods are real. ...Only a god can kill a god. Nepythys has killed her sister, Isis, and therefore the dead cannot pass over to the underworld--their ranks are rapidly swelling and they now roam the streets as zombies. Chief Embalmer Ptolemy Child's two daughters, Ella and Loli, aged eighteen and ten respectively, are being instructed in the secrets of the mummification process, when the dead begin to wake and walk. And eventually lead the sisters to the greatest mystery of all: Isis, herself...

About this title

About the Author:

Allyson Bird's debut collection, Bull Running for Girls, won best collection, in the British Fantasy Society awards, 2009. Dark Regions Press published her second collection of stories, Wine and Rank Poison, in October of 2010. She is co-editor, with Joel Lane, of the anthology, Never Again, from Gray Friar Press in September 2010. Isis Unbound is her first novel. Allyson Bird lives in the Wairarapa, New Zealand, with her husband and daughter. Occasionally she is drawn to strange places and people, and occasionally they are drawn to her. Her favourite playground, both as an adult and child, is the village graveyard. Once she wondered what would happen if she took one of the green stones from a grave. She has been looking over her shoulder ever since but has never given it back.

Review:

"Allyson Bird is a rare bird indeed. An original voice in a world of plain vanilla. She rides some dark waves with grace and a heart full of light and shadow. if there's any justice, she's on her way to real recognition." --Joe R. Lansdale, winner of the British Fantasy Award, the American Horror Award, the Edgar, and seven Bram Stoker Awards.

"The stories in Allyson Bird's, Wine and Rank Poison draw us into a world of dark magic, infinite possibility and abiding-terror; and she does it with a style reminiscent of Shirley Jackson and Robert Bloch. Highly recommended." --NY Times bestseller Jonathan Maberry, author of Rot & Ruin and The Dragon Factory.

"...Bird's writing is idiosyncratic, offbeat and troubling, a personal take on the complex legacy of pulp fiction." --Joel Lane, British Fantasy Award winning author of The Earth Wire and My Stone Desire.

"The stories in Allyson Bird's, Wine and Rank Poison draw us into a world of dark magic, infinite possibility and abiding-terror; and she does it with a style reminiscent of Shirley Jackson and Robert Bloch. Highly recommended." --NY Times bestseller Jonathan Maberry, author of Rot & Ruin and The Dragon Factory.

"...Bird's writing is idiosyncratic, offbeat and troubling, a personal take on the complex legacy of pulp fiction." --Joel Lane, British Fantasy Award winning author of The Earth Wire and My Stone Desire.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dark Regions Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1937128008
• ISBN 13: 9781937128005
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 206
• Illustrator: Daniele Serra