Darkly Bright Press is pleased to present the second full-length poetry collection by Joshua Alan Sturgill. Now A Major Motion Picture is a voyage into the cosmic and intimate. His best work to date, Sturgill guides the reader across the thin boundaries between reality and illusion… mysticism and science… exile and home.
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Ben Dolan’s debut novel is an elegiac confrontation between a man and his tragic past. In this complex character study, the author explores the borderlands which superficially divide poetry, technology and mysticism. Stone is a hunted man on the run to the scorched mountainsides of the Southwest where the veil between this world and the next is ghostly thin.
A review of the book:
“I loved her. I knew it then, and I think she knew she loved me then, and we were very, very afraid of what that meant, so we said nothing, and she cried out of fear because two people who love each other can do nothing but draw pain towards themselves like magnets. To fall in love with another person is a sort of suicide.” The novel, Spirit Lake, by Ben Dolan, compels us to relive a torrent of memories through JP Stone as he confronts a past based on the entreaties of a young woman seeking revelations that Stone is hard-pressed and fearful in baring. Through the guidance of Dolan’s witty use of his protagonist’s perspective, Spirit Lake treads into the pains of memories that will never perish and heartache that can shatter even the most resilient. -Five Star review by Tony Heck at Goodreads.
Was $22, now $11 (+ shipping) for a limited time.
For those who missed obtaining a copy of the limited hardcover edition of THE GUIDE, a few copies are available from Eighth Day Books, the greatest bookstore on earth.
NEW POETRY from Joshua Alan Sturgill: Conversely.
A Weird Occasional, Number One has been well-received. Copies for this full-color journal are available at a fair price. Great genre fiction and essays on the obscure!
The limited edition of THE GUIDE is now out-of-print. Orders are being produced and shipped. A softcover edition will be made available later this year. Thanks for the encouragement and support!
NEW POETRY
Mountain Meditation by Joshua Alan Sturgill
NEW POETRY
My Condition As I Received The Diagnosis
by Joshua Alan Sturgill
The limited hardcover edition is now OUT-OF-PRINT. Douglas A. Anderson has written nice review. Terry Cowan wrote interesting article discussing the book.
Some copies of the THE GUIDE by ARTHUR MACHEN remain available.
Announcing a new literary journal devoted to weird and supernatural literature: A Weird Occasional, co-edited by Douglas A. Anderson and Christopher Tompkins. Dedicated to shining light on the obscure, Number One is now available in 8.5 x 11 magazine format with a full color interior. The issue includes three essays:
M. P. Dare: Beyond the Veil by Johnny Mains (who also provided the cover art).
The Man Who Shot Cassius Crisp by Christopher Tompkins
Ballantine’s Chamber of Horrors: A History and Bibliography by Douglas A. Anderson.
The last essay features a gallery of full color scans of covers from the entire series.
In addition to new articles, the journal will feature rare stories from masters of speculative fiction. New introductions grace each of the following short stories:
The Crooked Man by A. M. Burrage (1919)
Our Lost “Others”: A Toltec Legend by Kenneth Morris (1933)
As a Fly in Amber by Bernard Capes (1905)
The Hut by Elim Henry D’Avigdor (1889)
A Were-Wolf by Arlo Bates (1882)
Great stuff for less than $9! Purchase the book from Lulu and visit the journal’s website.
Darkly Bright Press is now accepting preorders for the upcoming volume THE GUIDE: A Collection of Rare and Unknown Work by Arthur Machen.
This book will feature:
This hardcover edition is limited to 75 copies and is now OUT-OF-PRINT.
The books are scheduled to ship in June.
The new upcoming volume will feature:
Over 70 rare articles, including 18 previously undocumented pieces
A section on “Letters to the Editor,” some previously undocumented
The only known example of a commercially-paid product endorsement by Machen
A Film Review by Machen
A text comparison between published versions of an “Ornament in Jade”
A short essay on Machen and gaming
NEW POETRY
Never Without by Joshua Alan Sturgill
Dale Nelson dives into Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
