Sacrificial Nights

Bram Stoker Award Winners Bruce Boston and Alessandro Manzetti combine their poetic and narrative talents in a poetry novella that blends the genres of horror surrealism crime and noir Set in a large America city Sacrificial Nights follows the lives of some of those who inhabit its late night streets prostitutes pimps a thief an arsonist a police detective a psychotic killer and more Their tales and the tale of the city itself are richly complemented by British artist Ben Baldwin s striking illustrations This is a dark read with some explicit graphic content Original intelligent and exquisitely rendered Sacrificial Nights is an absolute tour de force a richly layered Chinese Box of sorts where each part is as important as the whole In a world of cookie cutter plots and tired poetry Sacrificial Nights is a shot of cool night air shadowy dangerous and addictive as sin Greg F Gifune author of The Bleeding Season When a book is both lucid and hallucinogenic the effect can be shocking lumin

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"The voyeuristic and sadomasochistic latency in art and sex is on stark display in Boston-Manzetti's epic, with its cinematic images giving flesh to daemonic street theater where anything can be sacrificed. With startlingly economical poetry, the authors give gritty vitality to the lowlife souls whose moment-to-moment movements are subconscious rituals of destruction. Sacrificial Nights hits just the right notes--with the heavy blow of a Death Metal sledgehammer or the soft whisper of an Xacto blade through flesh." --Randy Chandler, coauthor with t. winter-damon of Duet for the Devil and ForbiddenGospels: The Devil's Cut

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"Original, intelligent and exquisitely rendered, Sacrificial Nights is an absolute tour de force, a richly layered Chinese Box of sorts, where each part is as important as the whole. In a world of cookie-cutter plots and tired poetry, Sacrificial Nights is a shot of cool night air, shadowy, dangerous, and addictive as sin." --Greg F. Gifune, author of The Bleeding Season "When a book is both lucid and hallucinogenic, the effect can be shocking, luminous ... transgressive. The collision of talents in this extraordinary work practically establishes a new genre - macabre noir." --Robert Dunbar, author of Willy "Populated by denizens who straddle the line between salvation and damnation, Sacrificial Nights reads like a flashlight exploration of the darkness lurking behind closed doors and down blind alleys. Boston and Manzetti deftly navigate the shadows where human monsters dwell." --Michael McBride, author of Subterrestrial

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