Among the Lilies
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Publisher Description
A collection of 12 grotesqueries inspired by the natural and psychological landscapes of New England and by the ghosts that walk the places in-between.
The long-awaited new collection of short stories from Daniel Mills, whose literary antecedents include Poe, Hawthorne, Vernon Lee, and John Darnielle. A visionary and poetic stylist. Contains the long out-of-print novella "The Account of David Stonehouse, Exile," and two new stories written expressly for this collection.
"Daniel Mills is a master of telling tales. . . ."
―The New York Journal of Books
"Daniel Mills is a writer to watch"
- Black Static Magazine
"Mills has a poetic and visionary style of his own, capable of uncovering the beauty in horror and the horror in beauty."
- Reggie Oliver, Author of The Sea of Blood
A pleasure to read, Daniel Mills's fiction would draw approving nods from any of the austere presences in whose literary footsteps he is following."
- John Langan, Author of The Fisherman
"If you like your horror well written, haunting and resonant, look no further: Daniel Mills is your Man!"
- Rue Morgue Magazine
"Daniel Mills is a modern master of the unspoken, a classical horror miniaturist whose writing references the bleak and existentially dread-full gothic Americana of Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Best read out loud around a failing fire on a darksome plain, as night sets in."
- Gemma Files, Shirley Jackson award-winning author of Experimental Film
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Mills (Moriah) delivers an impressive debut collection of 12 weird tales anchored by the novella "The Account of David Stonehouse, Exile," whose unspecified time and setting—is it postapocalyptic or otherworldly?—contributes to the sense of strangeness of its narrator's experiences. A similar calculated vagueness colors a number of the other stories, including "Below the Falls," presented as a diary whose missing pages encourage the reader to fill in the gaps of its apparently supernatural events, and "A Sleeping Life" (a nod to the eerie expressionist film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari)whose staccato of short sections represent the disjointed impressions of its somnambulist narrator. Mills grounds his stories in considerable realistic detail, lending even the more surreal moments both gravity and tangibility. His work is sure to find a readership among fans of macabre and outré fiction.
