title: Murky Depths: Issue 9: The Quarterly Anthology Of Graphically Dark Speculative Fiction
author: Terry Martin
description: Eight short stories, three comics, seven articles and interviews with artists and writers.
zlib_text: Praise for _Among the Dead_ : “Serious ... chilling ... nightmarish ...
  terrific ... a necessary shot in the arm for literature ... _Among the Dead_
  has all the merits of film—the accessibility, the excitement of the plot, the
  calculated ability to control, manipulate and surprise an audience, the habit
  of tying up loose ends, the eye for detail, the ear for dialogue. ... Michael
  Tolkin’s novel could well win quite a few people back from film and television
  to the printed page.”
  
  —Fay Weldon, _The New York Times Book Review_
  
  “Appalling and compelling ... As surreal and inescapable as a nightmare.”
  
  —Jack Kroll, Newsweek
  
  “Fascinating ... ingenious ... brilliantly sustained ... full of nasty
  surprises ... Like Ian McEwan and Martin Amis, Tolkin portrays the squalid
  downside of life very well.”
  
  —Brain St. Pierre, _San Francisco Chronicle_
  
  “An intricate tale ... expert and precise ... a bleak, gemlike novel about the
  unraveling of a life ... a warty probe inside an unappealing but reco