Click here to buy this book!
There are souls so sinister and bleak that good fears to look within but perhaps if we venture deep enough, we will discover more than just pain. Come, journey with us through that darkness to find what lies within those Stygian Souls.
Dark fantasy by: Michele Acker, Bob Faw, Carol Hightshoe, Lee Masterson, Sheri McGathy, Tina Morgan, and Rie Sheridan. Cover art by Matt Baugh.
www.double-dragon-ebooks.com/single.php?ISBN=1-55404-367-0
The Stygian Soul
Edited by Sheri L. McGathy and Tina Morgan
Double Dragon Publishing
ISBN:
Anthology: Dark Humor
Reviewed by: Eugen M. Bacon for TCM
The Stygian Soul opens pseudo-darkly with Sheri L. McGathy’s Six Steps, well written prose that sets pace for the collection and asserts it mid-section in Coldoar. An experienced cast of writers blends snatches of humor, horror, and literary in fantasy tales well thought, not splashed blind. The anthology is simple and natural; the mood vagrant enough to take you places without going askance. I experienced bemusement and tragedy, witnessed a pioneer of balance in something superior and contemplated fantasy with new eyes. Most of the stories do not delve too deep into the complexity of terror to lose enchantment but embody an aspect that individually stands them apart.
Worthy of mention are Tina Morgan’s Transcendence; a ceremony of the Choosing that both fascinates and dismays; B. D. Faw’s darky short, How Scutter Saved My Life; Michelle Acker’s Blood Debt, and a quest for power with a twist in The Price of Magic; Lee Masterson’s acceptable risk that yields far more; Rie Sheridan’s The Game of the Gods; and Carol Hightshoe’s chaos duet of snapping branches, one unicorn, and a flame dancing elf.
Excerpt
Author list:
B.D. Faw
Carol Hightshoe
Lee Masterson
Matt Baugh
Michele Acker
Rie Sheridan
Sheri L. McGathy
Tina Morgan
|
