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From Dark Places [Kindle Edition]

Emma Newman , Jodi Cleghorn
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Abby finds a creative solution to her father’s problems. Ben makes a pact with the Devil for a new Mum. Katie is pursued by unrelenting voices. John just found his colleague’s hand in a strange girl’s lap. Jarvis is falling apart on his wedding day. Rosalind comes face-to-face with her number one fan. And that is just the beginning.

E.J. Newman’s debut anthology is a dark and twisting journey across the urban landscape, mining the rich seam of human frailties with insight and humour. The stories traverse the magical and the mundane, where supernatural beings are indistinguishable from their mortal counterparts in their complexity and complicity.

“Newman is unafraid to explore the darker side of fiction and, by extension, life. The stories are by turns touching and funny and heart warming. And dark. In places very, very dark. Leave the light on.”
DAN POWELL, 2010 Yeovil Literary Prize winner
(Short Story)
“Gods, demons and angels inhabit these pages, as much at home as the cheating spouses, spurned lovers and ugly, foul-mouthed orphans. Newman is a powerful emerging voice in dark fiction. I’ll be watching out for more of her stuff. You should too.”
ALAN BAXTER , Author of ‘RealmShift’ and ‘MageSign’

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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 243 KB
  • Print Length: 148 pages
  • Publisher: eMergent Publishing; 2 edition (4 April 2011)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language English
  • ASIN: B004V9KG0U
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #194,334 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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By A. Luke
Format:Paperback
I was lucky enough to hear E.J. Newman read several of these wonderful stories at the Oxford launch of "From Dark Places". I promptly devoured several more on my way home on the bus (and was so engrossed that I almost missed my stop ...)

"From Dark Places" is a collection of twenty-five short stories with a breathtaking range of moods and styles. The common factor is that they all touch on something dark, something mystical and magical. Sometimes hilarious, sometimes chilling, each one is a different nugget of story gold to savour.

I don't normally read short stories, but these drew me in and stayed with me. This is a fantastic debut anthology, and I highly recommend it. Just don't read it after dark...
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"From Dark Places" is a collection of short speculative fiction from emerging Somerset writer E J Newman, and, as the title suggests, the collection focuses very much on the dark, the twisted and the macabre.

There are flashes of humour here, particularly in "The Tenth Lord", an unusual take on an imprisoned princess, and "Getting Fixed", the story that closes the collection, where Jarvis is faced with a problem on his wedding day. But the darkness is never far from the surface, and a few of these stories ("In the Bag", "The Art of Desire") might have you double-checking the locks and sleeping with the light on...

An impressive debut collection from a writer who I'm sure will go on to make a name for herself in dark fantasy.
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It's very difficult to know what to say about this book, not for any negative reason, but because saying anything at all about the stories to be found here risks spoiling the sting that's hidden in the tail of each of them.

Suffice to say that these are the sort of stories that could once be found in the Pan Book of Horror Stories. Some are tragic, some comic, but all of them are disturbing to a greater or lesser degree. One of them will be lurking at the back of my mind for a very long time, but you'll have to read the book yourself to find out why.

For some time, I've been worried that the short story is an endangered species, but its future seems safe in the hands of authors like E J Newman and I'm sure that we shall be hearing a lot more of her in the years to come.
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