Cities of the Dead
"Reeser's [characters] yearn for what we yearn for--happiness, freedom from fear, understanding, love, some meager dream of hope or salvation.  That such things elude them still is part of what makesCities of the Deadso powerful and compelling."Neil Connelly, Author ofSt. Michael's Scales, The Miracle Stealer "Like Emily Dickinson, Jason Phillip Reeser is intrigued by the theme of consciousness after death...and like Rod Serling...he knows how to present little paranormal vignettes that leave his audience wondering...with a twist of Louisiana Gothic."Julie KanePoet Laureate of LouisianaAuthor of Jazz Funeral,  "In the current literary undertow, where desultory chatter poses as drama and self-regard becomes both an ersatz setting and an even more dispiriting temperament, Jason Phillip Reeser'sCities of the Deadis a curative for these impoverished contours."Adam Henry CarrièreEditor/Publisher of Danse Macabre Magazine"Reeser proves an expert guide to the necropoli of New Orleans...his thirteen tales from these moldering crypts pay homage to the classic pulp magazines. Others, however, engage deeper philosophical questions of morality and mortality, as the dead try unsuccessfully to make their peace with one another and with the living, who are equally incapable of breaking through the time-worn yet timeless marble that separates two levels of being. As one hapless soul concludes, 'Death was not going to be terribly different fromlife.' "R.S.Gwynn,Author and University Professor, Lamar Univ.