Blood and Beauty and Other Weird Tales

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by Jeff Chapman

Genre: Other11

Published: 2015

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Collects six short stories of fantasy and weirdness. Fans of Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, Greek mythology, and biblical-inspired fantasy will find something interesting.
"Blood and Beauty" tells the tragic love story of a satyr and a dryad.
"Sutter's Well" records the weird encounter between two boys and a Lovecraftian monster in Appalachia.
"Morphine and Chocolate" draws inspiration from the medieval poem Pearl as it follows a father's search for his missing daughter from one weird landscape to another.
"The Facts in the Case of M. Hussman" takes inspiration from Edgar Allan Poe and records the horrific consequences of artificially extending life in a steampunk world.
"Shafts to Hell" returns to the Old West and takes the reader inside the mind of an insane miner.
"Good King David" combines the tales of Hamlet and Absalom in a Biblical fantasy world.
Categories: weird fantasy, weird horror, Greek mythology, mythical creatures, steampunk.
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