Dark Demons: Tales of Obsession, Possession and Unnatural Desire

by Kurt Newton

Short story collection published by Delirium Books. Introduction by Michael Arnzen. Cover by Duncan Long.

Table of Contents

Something Profound
Waves
Angels of Mercy, Angels of Grief
Work of Art
In the Name of Love
The Afghan
The Face
Do They Bury Their Dead?
The Pit
Butter Red and Diamond Eyes
The Mothering Hole
The Banana Man
Puppies for Sale
The Mole Trap
Secrets... Like Bones in Slippery Dirt
The Bleeding of Mary Cross

276 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2002

About the author

Kurt Newton sold his first story, "The Promise of the Sea," in 1993. Since then he's had over 400 poems and 250 short stories published in a wide variety of magazines, anthologies and webzines in the U.S., Canada, England, Ireland, Australia, Germany and Poland. To date, he has received sixteen honorable mentions from the editors of The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, and has been seven times nominated for the Rhysling Award for his poetry.

Among his favorite authors are Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Flannery O'Conner, Harlan Ellison, J.G. Ballard, Joyce Carol Oates, John Shirley, Lucius Shepard, Jonathan Carroll, Christopher Conlon and Paul Tremblay.

He lives in the northeast corner of Connecticut.