Bøger af Daniel Braum

Take a walk on the wild side, through the twilight zone of dark and dangerous and dangerously personal terrain of Daniel Braum's short stories. Navigate impossible worlds and hidden corners of our own with damaged men and women seeking love and transcendence. There is heartache, loss, and stark poignant truths in the dark places these stories fearlessly venture, but also magic, mystery, beauty and wonder. Do you dare to dream? Do you dare to make a wish? Find out just who are the Wish Mechanics before answering. Braum effortlessly blends horror, science-fiction, and fantasy in his unique style and vision that transcends genre. Dark, literary, weird-fiction stories such as How To Make Love and Not Turn to Stone operate with the Night Time Logic of Robert Aickman. The vivid, exotic settings evoke the majestic prose of Braum's literary hero Lucius Shepard. The genre blending fantasy and science fiction of The Canopy Crawlers and Tea in the Sahara channel "the anything can happen spiri"t of the late, great grandmaster Tanith Lee.

In Cancun 1986, Mayans and Mexicans are fighting each other using strange powers they do not understand. A young American, alive with his first taste of star-crossed love, finds himself caught in the crossfire. Who is the mysterious and deadly White Lady murdering tourists? What strange, otherworldly things wait in the jungle? Will our young hero beware or heed Saint Death's call?Braum's debut novel delivers a smart, character-driven adventure in the unique and powerful style readers encountered in his story collection, The Night Marchers and Other Strange Tales. Richly depicted Central American settings combine with strange cosmic forces, including a monster large enough to knock the moon out of orbit with a brush of its tail.Enter the jungle where The Serpent's Shadow looms over the fate of an embattled city and a young man's dream."An expertly plotted coming-of-age story where love isn't just blind, but horrific." Sarah Langan. Author of Audrey's Door. "A chilling apocalyptic brew of myth and murder. Braum immerses the reader in a Mayan paradise torn by spiritual conflict where all roads and rivers lead to a stunning climax." -Douglas Wynne Author of Black January "The Serpent's Shadow is a tale that slithers under your skin and grips you until the last sentence." -Michelle Garza, Coauthor of Mayan Blue DANIEL BRAUM is the author of The Night Marchers and Other Strange Tales, The Wish Mechanics: Stories of the Strange and Fantastic, the chapbook Yeti Tiger Dragon and his third collection, Underworld Dreams.Braum's stories are full of rich settings that span the globe and explore the tension between the psychological and the supernatural. Many of them he calls "strange tales" intentionally adopting the term used by Robert Aickman.

Like a vinyl record from days gone by, author Daniel Braum spins a unique blend of speculative fiction that effortlessly blends fantasy, science fiction, horror, and mysticism. Braum's multi-dimensional characters are drawn into dark worlds and investigate the unexplainable at the edges of civilization. In The Night Marchers, the debut collection from Daniel Braum, readers will encounter: * A song that might herald the end of the world.* A young girl possessed by a hurricane.* A Native American Death Metal singer who might be the reincarnation of Crazy Horse.* A cat and mouse chase with demons through the jungles of Central America.* A has-been rock star haunted by the pet fish of his failed relationship.* An erotically charged night in the desert that might end with redemption, or entwined in the thorns of a cactus monster.* A beautiful alabaster Sphinx lumbering not towards Bethlehem but the Belt Parkway in Brooklyn... Appearing for the first time here is the title story "The Night Marchers," and "The Sphinx of Cropsey Avenue," alongside three classic stories from the pages of Cemetery Dance magazine and many more!"Daniel Braum is a true storyteller. By that I mean he spins tales of wonder that grasp at ideas and themes that human beings have been pondering since our brains become up to the task. These stories will also make you laugh, cringe, and damn near weep. This is such a big-hearted and wide ranging book and Daniel Braum is the real deal, a writer to treasure." -Victor LaValle, author of The Ballad of Black TomDaniel Braum's fiction has been classified as fantasy, science fiction, and horror but he prefers the good old fashioned term of just "fiction", which when he was growing up simply meant a story were anything could happen. His stories frequently defy category and reside in the fuzzy areas between genres, utilizing and combining genre elements to produce tales that are wholly unique.

Within these pages, the authors (ranging from the bestselling and award winning to exciting new comers in the beginning of their careers) have thrown off the crusty, dank, and old trapping to bring us stories from around the world that transcend what we might think of "the typical" mummy story. Only one of these tales is set in Egypt. These wrapped spirits are not back from the dead to find lost loves or enact revenge and neither are they merely shambling, slow moving, physical threats. Prepare to be frightened by what Braum has unwrapped!

Underworld Dreams is Daniel Braum''s third short story collection of genre transcending, strange stories full of tension between the supernatural and psychological. Within the pages Braum''s multi-dimensional characters face dark underworlds and strange experiences that illuminate the human condition and world (we think) we know, heart-breaking tale of loss and grief, as well as eerie tales that thrill.