Sacrificial Nights

Bram Stoker Award Winners Bruce Boston and Alessandro Manzetti combine their poetic and narrative talents in a poetry novella that blends the genres of horror surrealism crime and noir Set in a large America city Sacrificial Nights follows the lives of some of those who inhabit its late night streets prostitutes pimps a thief an arsonist a police detective a psychotic killer and more Their tales and the tale of the city itself are richly complemented by British artist Ben Baldwin s striking illustrations This is a dark read with some explicit graphic content Original intelligent and exquisitely rendered Sacrificial Nights is an absolute tour de force a richly layered Chinese Box of sorts where each part is as important as the whole In a world of cookie cutter plots and tired poetry Sacrificial Nights is a shot of cool night air shadowy dangerous and addictive as sin Greg F Gifune author of The Bleeding Season When a book is both lucid and hallucinogenic the effect can be shocking lumin