Why Snow Should Not Be Read was originally due to appear in David Haye’s new Masters of the Macabre anthology. When that publication was cancelled, it became the prose feature in Monkeys with Machineguns #2.

I did Peter and Jenny quicker. I was still Daddy after all, and they were good kids. They stood still when I told them to, even with Mummy crawling back from the stairwell, trailing red slush behind her. I think she might have tried to call out to them, but the patch of skull that I had stripped from her head must have been one of the parts that connected her jaw to her face; it hung down like a broken drawbridge, and she could only grunt and scream hoarsely as she hauled herself across the icy roof.