ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK: DARK MUSES, SPOKEN SILENCES - FROM FIRBOLG PUBLISHING

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One of the anthologies I have the honor of being published in is Enter At Your Own Risk: Dark Muses, Spoken Silences, from Firbolg Publishing. This was my first piece of Gothic fiction, and I'm rather proud of it. I write a tale based on Edgar Allan Poe's The Black Cat. My story, The Wife and the Witch, is written from the wife's point of view, a most challenging task for me. Dr. Alex Scully, the editor of this great tome, kept prodding me to dig down deeper, and so I did. I hope that everyone who reads this anthology gets caught up in the great writing of the great Gothic authors of old and new alike. There are many wonderful stories to read within.

Happy reading!

Blaze McRob

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Some of the most enduring masterpieces of Gothic fiction are as intriguing for the stories they don’t tell as for those they do. The voices hidden in the wall of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Black Cat;” the secrets buried beneath the earth of Sleepy Hollow in Washington Irving’s legendary Headless Horseman tale; the dreams of a monster and an ancient book with a life of its own in H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Call of Cthulhu;” and stories that reveal Polidori’s hypnotic, archetypal Vampyre as far more than what he first appears to be. In Firbolg Publishing’s third volume in the Enter at Your Own Risk series, ten modern storytellers reimagine the mysterious characters lurking within four classics of Gothic literature. As you read the original stories, a sinister whisper drifts in on a cold chill. But there are other voices beneath the whisper. You can hear them crawling out of the growing darkness. Then the whispers become a scream...

With an introduction from acclaimed author Gary Braunbeck, Dark Muses, Spoken Silences invites you into the hidden shadows of four of the most famous dark fiction tales ever told.

Are you brave enough to enter?

"Highly recommended"

Gene O’Neill

Author of Taste of Tenderloin and The Confessions of St. Zach

“Audacious, innovative, shocking – a kaleidoscope (where all the colors are dark).”

Robert Dunbar

Author of The Pines and Willy

"I am blown away by the beauty, terror and imagination of this brilliant book."

Sandy DeLuca

Author of Manhattan Grimoire and Hell’s Door

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Thank you, Sydney Leigh, for your very kind review.

Blaze McRob’s “The Wife and the Witch” is a clever reimagining of “The Black Cat”, told with a steady voice which is reminiscent of Poe without parroting it. His apparent ease with which he takes on the form of a female narrator lends itself to the emotional pull of this tale; he is successful in making us empathize fully with the protagonist’s loss of a loving companion: “He was my bastion of strength.”