Category: Horror Publisher: Tor
ISBN-10: 0312872410
Type: Fiction
Pages: 380
Copyright: Jan 1 1998
Nominated for two Bram Stoker Awards and the International Horror Guild Award, this is a historical horror novel about the Civil War that does for zombies and African magic what S.P. Somtow's novel "Moon Dance" did for werewolves.
Stories within stories within stories! This novel takes the reader from the bloodstained battlefields of Virginia to the slave auctions of Haiti. As Abraham Lincoln lies in state in New York, the widow of a famous abolitionist has a chance encounter with the poet Walt Whitman, who tells an astonishing tale that will eventually involve Lord Byron, Edgar Allan Poe, and Marie Laveau, the legendary voodoo queen of New Orleans ... all weaving in and out of the mysterious tale of a wild one-eyed shaman who dares raise the dead from the battlefields of the Civil War.
Excerpt
In time I was to learn that passing for civilizarion is all one can ever truly expect. I was to learn that society's most Apollonian achievements are but a kind of sleight of hand, a mass mesmerism that conceals a seething barbarity few ever dare to confront.
In the end they'll all be dancin'--all them ones that didn't die.... Dance with me in the shadows amidst the lightning and the thunder, and all that nu-cu-lar debris. See the big bang from the other side, and then open that cellar door. Go down into
