David Barr Kirtley

Science fiction author and podcaster

“The Skull-Faced Boy” Paper at International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts

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Anyone going to ICFA this year? If so, be sure to check out this session:

Saturday March 20, 2010 4:00-5:30 p.m.

118. (H) More Zombies Pine
Chair: Franc Auld
University of Wisconsin-Baraboo/Sauk

Re-Humanizing Zombies in S. G. Browne’s Breathers
Denelle Overman
Independent Scholar

“We help the dead”: Malevolent Evil and Psychological Continuity in David Bart Kirtley’s “The Skull-Faced Boy”
Sarah Benton
University of South Florida-St. Petersburg

Conformity of the Flesh in Dead Like Me
Mason Colescott
University of Wisconsin- Baraboo/Sauk

Yup, that’s me. David Bart Kirtley, author of “The Skull-Faced Boy.” Wait a minute. David “Bart” Kirtley? Oh well, close enough.

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  1. Hey, at least you know you are being taught on college campuses. I swear the anthology spelled your name correctly, sorry for error in the conference listing. The students enjoyed your story and I’ll teach it again in an (undead) heartbeat.

    Franc Auld
    (Yep, I taught the course that Sarah took.)

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