Dark Arts

North Yorkshire: Tartarus Press, 2022. First edition, Hardcover, Limited, New in dust jacket,. Joseph Dawson. North Yorkshire: Tartarus Press:, 2022. First edition, Hardcover, Limited, New in dust jacket, 245 pp.<br/> Cover artwork by: Joseph Dawson This edition limited to 300 copies. "A man keeping vigil at the bedside of his dying lover hears jazz that reminds him of a girl he lost long ago. At a late-night coffee shop, a professor clings to the diary of a dead man, but it fails to give him the protection he's longing for. A girl wrapped up in the wonders of a book tumbles down the stairs and wakes up in a world beyond her dreams. A refugee paints the last picture the world will ever know. Lyrical and haunting, these twelve stories (ten published here for the first time) explore the tenderness and terrors of life. They invite us to a place where the worlds of the living and the spirits of the lost blend in a seamless new reality. And when the end finally comes, Mother Night is kind."