Dark Arts

Black Voltage #38

There is a connective tissue between each of these stories.  The seriously wounded artist.  Seeking redemption or damnation or both.

Through the work.

A beautiful young flamenco dancer in search of a forbidden dance.

A painter and a composer, a century apart, who find everlasting fame through the torment of their love for the same dangerous woman.

A bestselling author who can only reach his future by confronting the bedroom of his haunted past.

A theatre stage that can change the way you act out your very life.

An arrogant network reporter whose drive through the fog to a plane-crash site unleashes his soul.

Art links these stories but the blood and bone of them belongs to each of us.  Artist or no artist, you will recognize yourself here.  You’ll recognize your own ambitions, loves thwarted and fulfilled, your own despair, your potential for growth and change and the lack of it, your shots at happiness.

All that’s well worth writing about.

But let’s not forget the scary stuff.  Your encounters with fear.

Those places in your childhood.  Those off-road encounters.

Because that’s part of what Mr. Monteleone brings to the table.  A healthy dose of fear.

(from the Introduction by Jack Ketchum)

Limited to 100 signed and numbered copies

David G. Barnett - You will notice that there are a number of books we are listing that will have the designation of DB, Dave Barnett, David Barnett, Necro, Necro Dave, etc. in the limitation line.  Dave was a great friend of ours, whose life was tragically ended way too short in an auto accident in 2021.  Dave was a book designer (we will be listing a number of books by other publishers which he either designed or were sent to him and they will be designated as listed above) and publisher, his imprints were known as Necro Publications, Bedlam Press and Weird Press Books, among others.  We have acquired his personal collection (and working on getting overstock from his business to his authors (if you were published by Dave and we have not gotten in touch with you please reach out to us at tony@camelotbooks.com) the book listed in this listing is from his personal collection and marked as such.