Shakespeare References in Stalkers

Stalkers is a collection of short stories in the horror realm, edited by Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg. It contains two Shakespeare references, both of them to Macbeth. The first comes in a story titled “Darwinian Facts,” written by Barry N. Malzberg. Malzberg writes, “Murder exceeds knowledge by a sufficient factor, oh Macbeth” (p. 310). The second reference is in Michael Seidman’s story “What Chelsea Said.” Seidman writes, “The people who knew Thomas Franchi knew that in him the milk of human kindness had curdled into nothingness” (p. 363). That is a reference to Lady Macbeth’s line: “Yet I do fear thy nature;/It is too full o’ the milk of human kindness.”

Stalkers was published in 1990.