Sparks and Shadows
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Winner of the Editors' Choice Black Quill Award for Best Dark Genre Collection*, Sparks and Shadows is the dazzling debut collection that first introduced the world to the fiercely original voice of multi-Bram Stoker Award-winning author Lucy A. Snyder. Spanning seventeen short stories, seven poems, and four biting humor essays, this eclectic anthology seamlessly bridges the gap between science fiction, visceral horror, and wry dark comedy. Urban fantasy enthusiasts won't want to miss a vital trio of stories featuring Miko, Sara, and Charlie?beloved characters who directly inhabit the universe of Snyder's acclaimed Jessie Shimmer novels (Spellbent, Shotgun Sorceress). By turns touching, chilling, seductive, and laugh-out-loud funny, Sparks and Shadows is a must-read passport through the beautiful, transgressive realms of the dark fantastic.
*The CGP edition is NOT the original edition of the book which won this award - this edition retains the text of that edition, which went out of print, and has a new cover, and includes a new introduction by Christopher Golden and afterword by Nalo Hopkinson.
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Lucy A. Snyder is the Shirley Jackson Award-nominated and five-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author of 16 books and over 100 published short stories. Her most recent titles are the apocalyptic horror novel Sister, Maiden, Monster and the collection Halloween Season. She also wrote the novels Spellbent, Shotgun Sorceress, and Switchblade Goddess, the nonfiction book Shooting Yourself in the Head for Fun and Profit: A Writer's Survival Guide, and the collections Garden of Eldritch Delights, While the Black Stars Burn, Soft Apocalypses, Orchid Carousals, Sparks and Shadows, Chimeric Machines, and Installing Linux on a Dead Badger. Her writing has been translated into French, Russian, Italian, Spanish, Czech, and Japanese editions and has appeared in publications such as Asimov's Science Fiction, Apex Magazine, Nightmare Magazine, Pseudopod, Strange Horizons, and Best Horror of the Year.
