Blacker Against the Deep Dark

by Alexander Zelenyj

Overview

From a man having a conversation with the shadow of a human being blasted into a wall by the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, to a pastor giving shelter to the most bizarre individual to ever walk the Earth; from a secret group at war with the physical manifestations of disease that have run rampant for ages, to a pair of detectives trying to solve the mystery of a deadly otherworldly drug that legend says holds the power to open the gates to Paradise. These, and other dark and weird tales...

Product Details

BN ID:	2940167104587
Publisher:	Eibonvale Press
Publication date:	08/07/2023
Sold by:	Draft2Digital
Format:	eBook
File size:	801 KB

Table of Contents

Introduction by Trevor Denyer

Blacker Against the Deep Dark

Highway of Lost Women

The Priests

We Are All Lightless Inside

The Ocean Closes at Midnight

Loneliness the Hunter

Kingdoms

Angels, and the Daggers of Darkness

Journey to the End of a Burning Girl

The Black-Winged and Burning

The Bloodmilk People

From Parts Unknown

The Terror of Broken Places

Moondogs

We Will Meet when the Sky Turns Darkest

Kill Them and Kill Them (and Pray for Something Good)

The Flies will be Here Soon

“Hush Honey, and Give Daddy Back His War Hammer”

Christ on the Sun

The Sky was a Window All Along

The Children Who Saw the Universe

Where Wickedness Walks

Private Poison

Spiderpartment

This Lustful Earth

We, the Burning Stars

Champions of the Holy Wa

Engines of Forever

Flowers of Heaven

In Rooms Empty but for You

Love in Uncertain Times

Editorial Reviews

There are no holds barred in these stories, just a rawness that underpins his soaring talent. Alexander Zelenyj is a poet. His work is detailed, descriptive and devastating…The reader is swept into worlds of possibility where nothing is as it seems…In this latest collection he conveys desire, agony and horror with the ease of a master craftsman. His work is subtle yet brutal. It changes as quickly and unexpectedly as his imagination.

- Trevor Denyer, Editor-in-Chief of Midnight Street Press, from his introduction

This collection is like a kaleidoscope of colours and shapes dancing on a minefield. Highly recommended.

- Alessandro Manzetti, Bram Stoker Award- winning author of Eden Underground, No Mercy, and The Garden of Delight

Like a nightmare waltz of innocence and violence, Alexander Zelenyj’s newest collection weaves together terrifying melodies, counterbalanced by the distant note of a better world.

- Brittni Brinn, author of The Patch Project

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