Michael Marano

• Jun-1998
• / Fantasy
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Dawn Song is a darkly erotic exploration of supernatural evil in very human circumstances. Lawrence is an invisible bookstore clerk in Boston, drawn through no choice of his own into the greatest conflict of all--a struggle for dominance between two ...

• Dec-2012
• / Horror
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Stories from the Plague Years is the first fiction collection from award-winning fantasy author Michael Marano. Nine tales arranged in a haunting symphony that guides readers through a tour of the darkest landscapes of human existence.

Here, fur...

• Feb-2013
• / Horror
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A man finds that the gift of prophecy is a curse as he is unable to prevent the deaths of those he loves, and to prevent his own fate at the hands of those who have hunted him since birth."The quiet fury of '...And The Damage Done' is indelible" (...

• Feb-2013
• / Horror
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The last surviving member of a community destroyed by AIDS shoulders the terrible burden of remembering his dead friends... who rise up in anger when he shirks that duty. This story "captures that fear and that crushing sense of loss permeating a ...

• Feb-2013
• / Horror
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A disembodied, immortal entity takes the form of the 'the thing under every kid's bed' through malevolent psychic manipulation that is forced upon it.

This tale comes from Stories from the Plague Years, the debut short fiction collection of Inte...

• Feb-2013
• / Horror
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In this Shirley Jackson Award-nominated novella, a young man taps the modern day anxieties about serial killers and so becomes a serial killer in order to avenge his own murder. " A] tale that takes several unexpected and delicious turns, somehow ...

• Feb-2013
• / Horror
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A young man gives up everything for his lover, who in turn gives up more than even his life for his art--over and over again. This story was nominated for the Gaylactic Spectrum Award.

This tale comes from Stories from the Plague Years, the debu...

• Feb-2013
• / Horror
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A human child is raised by monsters. But who are the real monsters? The human parents? Or the shaggy, flesh-eating, adoptive ones? daniel Kraus of Booklist called this story "Nothing short of a horror classic "

This tale comes from Stories from ...

• Feb-2013
• / Horror
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Forces of cosmic justice grant certain murder victims the gift of reincarnation to avenge themselves, but at a terrible cost.

This tale comes from Stories from the Plague Years, the debut short fiction collection of International Horror Guil...

• Feb-2013
• / Horror
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To save those whom he loves, a boy journeys to the hinterlands surrounding a plague-ravaged Boston along with a companion and... something else? An Honorable Mention List selection for Best Horror of the Year, "'Shibboleth' captures humanity at it...

• Feb-2013
• / Horror
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A dying musician reaches out to an unthinkable evil to finish his last composition. A story that continues the "War in Hell" arc from Marano's widely praised novel, Dawn Song.

This tale comes from Stories from the Plague Years, the debut short f...