The
Mark of the Shadow Grove
Release
Date: January 15, 2016
Daughters
of the gathering dusk and students of blackest spellcraft, the women of the
Schermerhorn clan are enigmas made flesh. Seers for time immemorial, they are
keepers of primeval knowledge.
They
are wise in the ways of the Old Religion.
And
they are destroyers of men.
Do
the women of the Schermerhorn clan drive the men they encounter to their destruction?
Or are their actions governed by specters on the periphery of human
consciousness?
The Schermerhorn women will soon learn what dwells in the
oldest books and what lurks in the flickering shadows beyond the candlelight.
Excerpt:
I saw her
close to the fire. I approached her. Instinct—animal’s blood—controlled my
fatigued limbs and I felt no fear, though the flames blazed high and the
hilltop was forlorn; the night was black as deep water . . . She turned and
approached me.
“There are no masters here. Only you and me,” she said.
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Author Bio:
Raised in Chatham, New York, a small
town in the Berkshires that looks like the setting for a Washington Irving
story, Ross grew up surrounded by overgrown woodlands and tumbled-down,
derelict farmhouses. He grew up with an awareness that the past was
omnipresent, a slyly pervasive power and a subtle influence on the present.
Ross now lives in Dallas, Texas with his patient and
endlessly supportive wife, a hopelessly brainless terrier, and an alarmingly
unhinged cat. Ross works as a social studies teacher but writes fiction
whenever he gets a chance. Sadly, he seems capable only of crafting stories of
the weirdest kind. His imagination—apparently corrupted in adolescence by
Hawthorne, Bierce, Machen, Lovecraft, and assorted other misanthropes, weirdos,
and purveyors of high strangeness—can only manufacture demented little yarns.
Ross's fiction has appeared repeatedly in Bewildering Stories magazine, Quantum Fairy Tales, and Enchanted Conversation, an online fairy
tale magazine.
Find Ross here:
Website: http://fantasyworkspublishing.com/ross-smeltzer.html
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