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Title: Calcutta, Lord of Nerves

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Title: Calcutta, Lord of Nerves Title Record # 45105
Author: Poppy Z. Brite
Date: 1992-08-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Webpages: e-reading.club
Language: English
User Rating: 5.50 (2 votes) Your vote: Not cast VOTE
Current Tags: zombies (1), Calcutta (1), Kolkata (1), india (1), horror (1) Add Tags

Other Titles

Translations
Year Language Title
1997ⓘTranslated by Jean-Daniel Brèque
 French Calcutta, seigneur des nerfs
2016ⓘTranslated by Alessandro Manzetti.
 Italian Calcutta, Signora delle Impudenze

Awards

Place Year and Award Category
Nomination 1993 World Fantasy Best Short Fiction
Win (as Calcutta, seigneur des nerfs) 1998 Imaginaire Nouvelle étrangère

Publications

Displaying all variants and translations • Do not display translations • Do not display variants or translations

Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Still Dead 1992-08-00 ed. John Skipp, Craig Spector Mark V. Ziesing 0-929480-68-6
$85.00?$: US dollar
 276
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 anth Rick Berry  
Still Dead 1992-08-00 ed. John Skipp, Craig Spector Mark V. Ziesing 0-929480-67-8
$29.95?$: US dollar
 276
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 anth Rick Berry  
Still Dead 1992-08-00 ed. John Skipp, Craig Spector Bantam Falcon 0-553-29839-9
$4.99?$: US dollar
 xvi+
303
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
 anth Richard Kriegler Checkmark
Swamp Foetus: A Collection of Short Stories 1993-04-00 Poppy Z. Brite Borderlands Press  
$50.00?$: US dollar
 190
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 coll Rick Lieder  
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixth Annual Collection 1993-08-00 ed. Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling St. Martin's Press 0-312-09422-1
$16.95?$: US dollar
 xci+
529
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
 anth Thomas Canty Checkmark
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixth Annual Collection 1993-08-00 ed. Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling St. Martin's Press 0-312-09421-3
$27.95?$: US dollar
 xci+
529
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 anth Thomas Canty Checkmark
Swamp Foetus: A Collection of Short Stories 1994-01-00 Poppy Z. Brite Borderlands Press 1-880325-05-5
$20.00?$: US dollar
 190
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 coll Rick Lieder  
Swamp Foetus 1995-02-00 Poppy Z. Brite Penguin Books 0-14-023506-X
£5.99?£: UK pound
 190
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
 coll  
His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood and Other Stories 1995-07-00 Poppy Z. Brite Penguin Books (Penguin 60s #50) 0-14-600050-1
£0.60?£: UK pound
 88
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
 coll Mercedes , Fernando (I) Checkmark
Wormwood: A Collection of Short Stories 1996-01-00 Poppy Z. Brite Dell 0-440-21798-9
$5.50?$: US dollar
 225
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
 coll  
Contes de la fée verte 1997-01-00 Poppy Z. Brite
Denoël?Denoel
(
Présences?Presences
)		 2-207-24393-1   256
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
 coll  
Contes de la fée verte 1999-02-00 Poppy Z. Brite
Denoël?Denoel
(
Présence du Futur?Presence du Futur
#609)		 2-207-24852-6   253
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
 coll Guillaume Sorel Checkmark
The Living Dead 2008-09-01 ed. John Joseph Adams Start Publishing 978-1-59780-240-6
$15.95?$: US dollar
  
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
 anth David Palumbo  
The Living Dead 2008-09-01 ed. John Joseph Adams Night Shade Books 978-1-59780-143-0
$10.69?$: US dollar
  
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
 anth David Palumbo Checkmark
The Living Dead 2008-10-00 ed. John Joseph Adams Night Shade Books 978-1-59780-143-0
$15.95?$: US dollar
 487
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
 anth David Palumbo Checkmark
The Living Dead 2009-02-00 ed. John Joseph Adams Night Shade Books / SFBC 978-1-60751-522-7
$12.99?$: US dollar
 496
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 anth David Palumbo  
Zombies: Encounters with the Hungry Dead 2009-09-19 ed. John Skipp Black Dog & Leventhal 978-1-57912-828-9
$19.95?$: US dollar
 699
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
 anth  
Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror 2010-03-00 ed. Ellen Datlow Tachyon Publications 978-1-892391-95-7
$15.95?$: US dollar
 470
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
 anth Ann Monn Checkmark
The Century's Best Horror Fiction 1951-2000 2012-01-00 ed. John Pelan Cemetery Dance Publications 978-1-58767-172-2
$75.00?$: US dollar
 866
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 anth Alan M. Clark Checkmark
The Living Dead 2013-06-13 ed. John Joseph Adams Orbit 978-1-4055-2882-5
£2.99?£: UK pound
  
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
 anth  
The Beauty of Death 2016-07-14 ed. Alessandro Manzetti Independent Legions Publishing 978-88-99569-18-1
$4.99?$: US dollar
  
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
 anth George Cotronis  
Il Cimitero dei Vivi 2016-10-08 Poppy Z. Brite Independent Legions Publishing (Black Spring) 978-88-99569-24-2
€2.99?€: Euro
  
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
 coll Giampaolo Frizzi  
Il Cimitero dei Vivi 2016-10-09 Poppy Z. Brite Independent Legions Publishing (Black Spring) 978-88-99569-26-6
€12.90?€: Euro
 218
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
 coll Giampaolo Frizzi  
Wormwood: A Collection of Short Stories date unknown Poppy Z. Brite Dell 0-440-21798-9
$6.50?$: US dollar
 xxvii+
225
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
 coll Checkmark
Wormwood: A Collection of Short Stories date unknown Poppy Z. Brite Dell 0-440-21798-9
$6.50?$: US dollar
 225
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
 coll  
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