Author Event! Victoria Dalpe - Selene Shade: Loving the Dead

"A razor-edged urban fantasy with guts and brains (and sometimes literal guts). Dalpe doesn’t just explore what happens after death—she digs into what it costs to come back, and what kind of world we create when the dead don't stay dead. Smart, brutal, and surprisingly heartfelt." —Matt Forgit, author of It’s Always Halloween Here and How To Be a Professional Mourner

In the second novel of the Resurrectionist Series from Victoria Dalpe, Loving the Dead, a city tears itself apart, a new serial killer arrives in town, and Selene Shade desperately needs a vacation.

A few months after the tumultuous and reality-shredding arrival of the Pale Ones, the world has been changed, and not necessarily for the better. Half-lifes now regard Selene and her ilk with fear, knowing their free will isn't as free as it once was. With the growing backlash against the undead in society, religious hate groups have swelled. Add to that a vampire serial killer, a contentious election, a heap of personal problems and you have the makings of a perfect storm that might just wipe the city of Goat Hill right off the map.

Revenge conspiracies, resurrection, and romance--what's a girl to do? Join Selene and friends as they reluctantly race the clock to stop those that would destroy the world... again.

Victoria Dalpe is a Rhode Island based artist and writer. She has shown her artwork throughout New England and has been the Gallery Chair of the Pawtucket Arts Collaborative for nearly ten years. Before relocating back to RI, she worked at the MoMA, as well as various other New York museums. Dalpe's short fiction has been published in over 65 collections with her short story "The Cleaner" appearing in Ellen Datlow's Best Horror of the Year Volume 17 in 2025. She has also published the gothic novel Parasite Life and the Selene Shade Resurrectionist for Hire dark fantasy series. Book 2, Loving the Dead will be out in August 2026. She released the short story collection Les Femmes Grotesques with CLASH Books and her next collection, I'll Break, You'll Break will be out in 2027 with Lethe Press. Dalpe also has been a producer on various short and feature length film projects in RI and NY, including the festival-darling-drag-queen slasher film Death Drop Gorgeous. Follow her on instagram @victorialdalpe