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In this haunting debut collection of short stories, Sam Weller, authorized biographer of the legendary Ray Bradbury, blurs the boundaries between the weird, the outre, the paranormal, the Gothic, and old school punk rock. Dark Black features 20 tales, at turns chilling, melancholy, hilarious, and nightmarish.A marine biologist at the end of his career embarks on his greatest field study to find the mythical sea beast he believes he witnessed as a young man, long ago.A writing professor discovers the Clutter murder house, made infamous in Truman Capote's 1966 classic, In Cold Blood, is available on a vacation rental site. He books the home to finish his latest book with unexpected results.A group of kids use a Ouija board to contact their beloved, deceased friend.A punk rock musician writes a groundbreaking album, collaborating with the ghost of a musical legend.A college student with subtle telekinetic abilities attempts to use her powers in the midst of a horrifying school shooting. Sam Weller worked side by side with Ray Bradbury for over a decade. No surprise, then, that Dark Black is deeply inspired by Bradbury's dark and enduring 1955 collection, The October Country, mashed-up with modern influences, such as anthology television program The Black Mirror" and "American Horror Story." Dark Black 's 20 short stories are made up of evanescent ghosts and inner demons, lost souls and lost love.Featuring striking, original color artwork by renowned artist and printmaker Dan Grzeca, known for his concert prints for The Black Keys, Sharon Van Etten, U2, among others, Dark Black is art object as book, in this case of haunting new American Gothic fiction."
Decorated officer Captain Thomas Harper has a successful military career, beautiful fianc, and the promise of a great future -- until he is accused of being a pedophile. This sinister accusation forms the darkest cloud imaginable and releases a torrential downpour on his life that leaves him navigating through the storm with nothing but revenge as a guiding force. Will Captain Harper avenge the assassination of his character and clear his name, or will his actions uncover much more than he ever intended to expose? Dark Black is set in the military laden city of San Antonio, Texas before moving to the magic metropolis of Orlando, Florida and concluding in the enchanting Caribbean. Author Robert Lansford is a retired engineer and former U.S. Air Force pilot who resides in Florida. His previous books include The Secret Son and I Promise. Publisher's website: http: //www.eloquentbooks.com/DarkBlack.htm
We Who Are Dark provides the first extended philosophical defense of black political solidarity. Tommie Shelby argues that we can reject a biological idea of race and agree with many criticisms of identity politics yet still view black political solidarity as a needed emancipatory tool. In developing his defense of black solidarity, he draws on the history of black political thought, focusing on the canonical figures of Martin R. Delany and W. E. B. Du Bois.
This collection of essays by architect Mario Gooden investigates the construction of African American identity and representation through the medium of architecture. These five texts move between history, theory, and criticism to explore a discourse of critical spatial practice engaged in the constant reshaping of the African Diaspora. African American cultural institutions designed and constructed in recent years often rely on cultural stereotypes, metaphors, and clichés to communicate significance, demonstrating "Africanisms" through form and symbolism--but there is a far richer and more complex heritage to be explored. Presented here is a series of questions that interrogate and illuminate other narratives of "African American architecture," and reveal compelling ways of translating the philosophical idea of the African Diaspora's experience into space.
Michaela Morris is the general manager of a Country Club in a leading city, Jarrico Junction, in the South. The Club is staging an important Golf Tournament, but Michaela is under pressure not only from a rival attraction that is being staged at the ball park, but from illegal campers who have erected their tents on a small but vital part of the course. So she befriends the newly elected District Attorney. He is under other pressures, particularly from the city's leading citizen, a highly eccentric and somewhat recluse multimillionaire, who insists that visitors remove their shoes before coming into his presence. The millionaire's first wife died under mysterious circumstances while he himself was abroad. His new wife is frightened to death of him. His name is Newman Nesdorf, but he bears two nicknames: Next-Door Nesdorf and Whiplash Nesdorf. In fact, as our heroine, Michaela Morris, comments at one stage, Nesdorf is not content unless he has two of everything: two wives, two nicknames, two bodyguards, two...
A dazzling anthology of avian-themed fiction guaranteed to frighten and delight, edited by one of the most acclaimed horror anthologists in the genre. Birds are usually loved for their beauty and their song. They symbolize freedom, eternal life, the soul. But there’s a dark side to the avian. Birds of prey sometimes kill other birds (the shrike), destroy other birds’ eggs (blue jays), and even have been known to kill small animals (the kea sometimes eats live lambs). And who isn’t disgusted by birds that eat the dead—vultures awaiting their next meal as the life blood flows from the dying. Is it any wonder that with so many interpretations of the avian, that the contributors herein are eager to be transformed or influenced by them? Included in Black Feathers are those obsessed by birds of one type or another: A grieving widow takes comfort in her majestic winged neighbors, who enable her to cope with a predatory relative. An isolated society of women relies on a bird to tell their fortunes. A chatty parrot makes illegal deals with the dying. A troubled man lives in isolation with only one friend for company—a jackdaw. In each of these fictions, you will encounter the dark resonance between the human and avian. You will see in yourself the savagery of a predator, the shrewd stalking of a hunter, and will wade into this feathered nightmare, braving the horror of death for that which we all seek—the promise of flight.
In 2003 Sihle Khumalo decided to give up a lucrative job and a comfortable life style in Durban and to celebrate his 30th birthday by crossing the continent from south to north. Celebrating life with gusto and in inimitable style, he describes a journey fraught with discomfort, mishap, ecstasy, disillusionment, discovery and astonishing human encounters. A journey that would be acceptable madness in a white man is regarded by the author’s fellow Africans as an extraordinary and inexplicable expenditure of time and money. Newly conscious of language barriers and regional difference in a continent still unexplored by the majority of Africans, the author presents a strikingly original and highly enjoyable account of a unique adventure. Each chapter is prefaced by a description of the ‘father of the nation’ of the country in question and ends with a hilarious ‘important tip’.
There have been countless books penned about the leading grunge bands - namely, Nirvana and Pearl Jam. But strangely, few have been assembled about the mighty Soundgarden. But this all changed with the arrival of 'Dark Black and Blue: The Soundgarden Story.'Written by author/journalist (and longtime Soundgarden fan) Greg Prato, the book tells the Seattle band's complete story - beginning with its members pre-SG days, all the way to today. Also included are all-new interviews for the book, including chats with Matt Pinfield, Marky Ramone, Jim Rose, the Reverend Horton Heat, and Dave Wyndorf, among others, as well as rarely seen photos from throughout the band's history.In addition to dissecting, analyzing, and telling the stories behind all of their albums (including such classics as 1991's 'Badmotorfinger, ' 1994's 'Superunknown, ' and 1996's 'Down on the Upside'), readers will learn about the stories behind their classic songs ("Black Hole Sun," "Jesus Christ Pose," "Outshined," "Hands All Over," "Flower," etc.), as well as recollections of tours (including multiple stints on Lollapalooza, opening several legs of Guns N' Roses' 'Use Your Illusion' tour, Neil Young, Faith No More, etc.), goings on behind the scenes, and singer Chris Cornell's surprising and tragic death in 2017. Finally, Soundgarden's legion of fans worldwide now have a book that tells the entire story - 'Dark Black and Blue
"Thought-provoking…A lovely testament to horses and women from all walks of life." —Chicago Tribune In a phenomenon too prevalent to be mere chance, little girls all over the Western world wake one day to find themselves completely taken over by the love of all things equine. Melissa Holbrook Pierson was one of those horse-crazy girls who later returned to riding with a new appreciation for the nature of horses. Melding memoir, sociology, history, anecdote, and a bit of prose poetry, Dark Horses and Black Beauties delves beneath the shallow hypotheses explaining women's connection to horses to look at how this communication with another animal opens us up to a new apprehension of the larger "natural" world.
A collection of short fiction explores the dark imaginations and experiences of the human mind in tales of horror and duspense by Zane, Tanarive Due, Stephen Barnes, Robert Fleming, and other African-American authors.