S.P. Somtow
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S.P. Somtow
1865. As Abraham Lincoln lies in state in New York, on his way to his final resting place in Illinois, the widow of a famous abolitionist has a chance encounter with the poet Walt Whitman, who has an astonishing tale to tell…
So begins Darker Angels, a saga of voodoo, zombies, and the Civil War. In this novel, which will take you from the college rooms of the young Lord Byron to the slave auctions of Haiti, from revival meetings to dark rituals of resurrection, from the battlegrounds of Virginia to the leopard societies of West Africa, Somtow weaves a…
S.P. Somtow
This collection of ten stories features a modern-day Frankenstein in the sleazy suburbs of Bangkok, a hard-boiled detective exposing corruption in the entertainment industry, a theology of zombies and two fairy tales.
