The "carrion-eaters" of the title are Mutant humans who have acquired the capacity to control other humans through direct psychic access to their hind-brains, while at the same time feeding on the experiences into which they force their victims. His second novel, the immense Carrion Comfort (September-October 1983 Omni much exp 1989), is also horror, though with an sf underpinning, though that sf base is un-new. True to the instincts of that genre, his first novel, Song of Kali ( 1985), which won a World Fantasy Award, renders modern-day Calcutta as a moral and psychic cesspool, into which the married protagonists of the book sink very deep indeed as unleashed evil from the world's ancient heart first destroys their child and subsequently threatens to flood the 1980s. (1948- ) US elementary school teacher circa 1971-1987 and author, who began publishing work of genre interest with "The River Styx Runs Upstream" for Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine in April 1982, and who was for some time thought of primarily as an author of tales of Horror, some of which – along with sf and Fantasy stories – were assembled in Prayers to Broken Stones (coll 1990).
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