Blood and Beauty and Other Weird Tales

<p>Collects six short stories of fantasy and weirdness. Fans of Edgar Allan Poe H. P. Lovecraft Greek mythology and biblical-inspired fantasy will find something interesting.<br><br><strong>"Blood and Beauty"</strong> tells the tragic love story of a satyr and a dryad.<br><br><strong>"Sutter's Well"</strong> records the weird encounter between two boys and a Lovecraftian monster in Appalachia.<br><br><strong>"Morphine and Chocolate"</strong> draws inspiration from the medieval poem Pearl as it follows a father's search for his missing daughter from one weird landscape to another.<br><br><strong>"The Facts in the Case of M. Hussman"</strong> takes inspiration from Edgar Allan Poe and records the horrific consequences of artificially extending life in a steampunk world.<br><br><strong>"Shafts to Hell"</strong> returns to the Old West and takes the reader inside the mind of an insane miner.<br><br><strong>"Good King David"</strong> combines the tales of Hamlet and Absalom in a Biblical fantasy world.</p>