Sparks and Shadows: Stories and Poetry

This debut collection of seventeen short stories, seven poems and four humor essays from Lucy A. Snyder will appeal to any reader of the dark fantastic. By turns touching, chilling, surreal, wryly satiric, seductive, macabre and laugh-out-loud funny, this book will take you from adventures in the farthest reaches of outer space to the darkest shadows beneath the surface of modern America. Winner of the the 2008 Editors' Choice Black Quill Award for Best Dark Genre Collection. "It's a bacchanalia in there. And I must tell you: you may never find your way out again." - Nalo Hopkinson, from her introduction "Snyder's work is vibrant and resonant and superbly measured ... Short, sharp, and sometimes slightly shocking, (her) fiction is always memorable. ... (T)he stories in Sparks and Shadows weave a spell that'll prove hard to shake. It really is a bacchanalia in there, and you just might find you don't want to turn the last page. Nicely presented as a limited edition from HW Press with a distinctive Deena Warner cover, this volume belongs in any serious dark fantasy collection." - ChiZine "(T)his has to be, hands down, the best collection I've read since Joe Hill's 20th Century Ghosts. ... Lucy Snyder means business, people. She is here to kick ass and take names." - Hellnotes

About the Author

Lucy A. Snyder is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of:SpellbentShotgun SorceressSwitchblade GoddessSoft ApocalypsesOrchid CarousalsSparks and ShadowsChimeric MachinesInstalling Linux on a Dead BadgerShooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer's Survival Guide  Her writing has been translated into French, Russian, and Japanese editions and has appeared in publications such as Apex Magazine, Nightmare Magazine, Pseudopod, Strange Horizons, Weird Tales, Steampunk World, In the Court of the Yellow King, Qualia Nous, Chiral Mad 2, and Best Horror of the Year, Vol. 5. She lives in Columbus, Ohio and is a mentor in Seton Hill University's MFA program in Writing Popular Fiction. You can learn more about her at lucysnyder.com and you can follow her on Twitter at @LucyASnyder.

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