GRAVES, AT MY COMMAND: The Cigarette Smoking Blogger replies to my post on Paglia; and “Blackadder” replies to my horror-anthology post with the awesomely-titled, “If Reanimating the Dead Is Wrong, I Don’t Wanna Be Right.”

I don’t know that we necessarily disagree, although I need to ponder. My post was more about, “If you do a ‘came back wrong’ story, this is what I will need in order to feel satisfied by it.”

Now, though, I really want to read stories about the returned dead in which they don’t come back wrong–there are a lot of possibilities there, from an eerie coziness to harsh rejection of the “returned” by their terrified or resentful relatives to the kinds of issues I touched on in “Now and at the Hour” (PDF–something similar to the point Adam Greenwood makes at the Vox-Nova link). How did people treat Lazarus? What was it like for him, and those around him, when he came again to death?