Mammoth Books Presents A Clutch of Zombies by Albert E. Cowdrey

Author:Albert E. Cowdrey
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781472102652
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

ALBERT E. COWDREY

Fort Clay, Louisiana:

A Tragical History

BORN AND BROUGHT UP in New Orleans, Albert E. Cowdrey was educated at Tulane and Johns Hopkins universities, and worked for twenty-five years as a military historian, mostly in and around Washington, D.C.

He is possibly the only writer to receive awards from both the American Historical Association and the World Fantasy Convention. Fifty of his stories have appeared or soon will appear in print, as well as one novel, Crux.

“‘Fort Clay . . .’ had its genesis long ago in picnics and snake-collecting expeditions to the defences originally built to protect New Orleans from the British fleet,” explains Cowdrey. “(By the time they were completed, the Battle of New Orleans was over – the Brits didn’t come back, but the Yanks did.)

“Fort Jackson, Fort St Philip and Fort Pike were as close to castles as I could get – grand places, shadowy and creepy and cool even in the hottest weather, beloved of serpents and the small boys who pursued them. Later, as a researcher for the Interior Department, I worked at Baltimore’s Fort McHenry – where the British fleet did come, provoking Francis Scott Key to write ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ – and studied Fort Sumter in Charleston harbour, where the Civil War began.

“It seemed only right to think about deeds of blood in such appropriate places, about the intersection of past and present, and about drowned men who emerge from lapping waters to take a hand in the affairs of the living. And so this tale took form.”

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