happy book birthday to The Four ???? of the Apocalypse

THE APOCALYPSE IS NIGH!

The inaugural publication from Whysper Wude, the very small press started by myself and Wrenn Simms, is now officially on sale: The Four ???? of the Apocalypse. Edited by me and Wrenn, and featuring some of the best word-slingers in the biz, this has alternate takes on the end-of-the-world equestrians.

Ordering links (this will be updated as more become available):

• Amazon
• Barnes & Noble
• Kobo
• Indie Bound/Bookshop.org

Here’s the back cover copy:

AN ANTHOLOGY OF BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS!

We all know about the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Death, War, Famine, and Pestilence riding on pale horses and all that Book-of-Revelation stuff. But why does it have to be four guys on horses? Why not the Four Cheerleaders of the Apocalypse? The Four Cats of the Apocalypse? The Four PTA Moms of the Apocalypse? The Four Lawyers, Librarians, or Lunch Ladies of the Apocalypse? The Four Drummers, Rock Stars, or Opera Singers of the Apocalypse? Or even the Four Squirrels of the Apocalypse or the Four Emojis of the Apocalypse?

And so we present The Four ???? of the Apocalypse, as twenty-nine brilliant authors give us alternate takes on the legendary quartet of end-of-the-world avatars.

Here’s the full table of contents:

• The Introduction of the Apocalypse by Keith R.A. DeCandido & Wrenn Simms
• The Apocalypse Will Be Televised by David Mack
• Well, That Escalated Quickly by Seanan McGuire
• The Four Opera Singers of the Apocalypse by Mary Fan
• Apocatlypse by Jody Lynn Nye
• The Four Stages of the Apocalypse by Derek Tyler Attico
• A Priest, a Rabbi, a Shinshoku, and an Imam Walk Into… by Peter David
• Blank Slates by Aaron Rosenberg
• For Whom the Bell Tolls by Laura Anne Gilman
• The Four Swords of the Apocalypse: A Tale of Kagen the Damned by Jonathan Maberry
• The Fifth Horseman by Randee Dawn
• To Brandish a White Ladle: A Chronicle of the Four Lunch Ladies of the Apocalypse by Danielle Ackley-McPhail
• Fate of the Final Four (A Fatalist Fable) by Gordon Linzner
• The Four Harschmans of the Apocalypse by Michael Jan Friedman
• Your Apocalypse Will Be Handled by the Next Available Representative by Wrenn Simms
• HHH 666 by Jenifer Purcell Rosenberg
• Horseman, Horseman, Horseman, & Horseman, Attorneys-at-Law by Michael A. Ventrella
• The Four Squirrels of the Apocalypse by Gerard Houarner
• The Four Angels of the Apocalypse by Megan Mackie
• The Arrival of Amber by Adam-Troy Castro
• Overdue by Gail Z. Martin
• The Four Bachelors of the Apocalypse by Hildy Silverman
• The Four Cheerleaders of the Apocalypse by Robert Greenberger
• What Do You Want from Me, I’m Old: A Tale of the Four Septuagenarians of the Apocalypse by Keith R.A. DeCandido
• Four Entrees by James D. Macdonald
• Prepocalypse Now by Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore
• Live, Laugh, Apocalypse by Patrick Thomas
• We Got the Beat by Russ Colchamiro
• The Four Course Men by David Gerrold
• The Bonus Story of the Apocalypse: Putting Doom on Paws by Aaron Rosenberg