coming soon – Ticonderoga Publications https://bookshop.ticonderogapublications.com the bookshop Sun, 21 May 2023 12:27:34 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 Songs for Dark Seasons https://bookshop.ticonderogapublications.com/product/songs-for-dark-seasons/ https://bookshop.ticonderogapublications.com/product/songs-for-dark-seasons/#respond Sun, 19 Jan 2020 16:01:26 +0000 http://bookshop.ticonderogapublications.com/?post_type=product&p=2788 NEW! Songs for Dark Seasons is Deliverance meets Pan’s Labyrinth; its stories read like a country music album played in the darkest corners of the imagination.]]> NEW!

With a twang in its heart and a song for luck on its tongue, Songs for Dark Seasons takes readers back to the lonesome dream counties introduced in the World Fantasy Award-nominated collection, Bluegrass Symphony.

Trailer parks and graves are only temporary homes for souls in these tales, where gods dwell in churches and parking lot groves. Friday night football stars mingle with sirens; hunters’ wives help their kids not to shoot, but to fly; Chanticleers spar their way into local government; and rash-afflicted men take dryads for lovers. In backwater towns, some witches have the know-how to pin pageant queens pretty, while others relieve girls of highfalutin aspirations. Local crow-boys and bloodthirsty Ursines are the best miners around.

In these thirteen stories, forests are imbued with the deepest, saddest strains of country music, cornfield horizons stretch as long as a lone fiddle’s wail, and distant hills make mandolin promises: sweet and catchy and short-lived.

With an introduction by World Fantasy Award-winning writer Helen Marshall.

Cover by Vince Haig.

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