#102 in Horror
Already Dead
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Our view
“Already Dead” opens Charlie Huston’s “Joe Pitt Casebooks” with a raw, entertaining mix of pulp noir and horror. Vampires and zombies meet a hard-boiled detective story, and the tone is gritty and adult throughout. Its nasty edge is exactly what keeps some readers hooked, while others find the unusual way the text is set out distracting. Anyone drawn to the series should begin here.
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About the book
Already Dead is a 2005 pulp-noir / horror novel by Charlie Huston and published in 2005. This is the first of the Joe Pitt Casebooks.
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Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.4 across 53 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 27% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Horror average of 7.5. That is how 7.6 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 7.4 | 53 | 100% |
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