Dark Mondays - by Kage Baker (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

"In this enchanting, if melancholy, story collection from Hugo- and Nebula Award-nominee Baker, the supernatural matter-of-factly touches the shabby lives of people in small, isolated towns, providing resolution and revelation . . ." --Publsihers Weekly

Kage Baker, celebrated creator of the Company novels and the standout collection Mother Aegypt, now brings together pirates, primates, eldritch horrors, maritime ghosts, and much more in Dark Mondays.

This captivating new collection of fantastic short fiction is sure to cement her reputation as one of the most original storytellers working in the fantasy and speculative fiction genres today.

Whether spinning tales of the mysterious young woman and the dreadful pirate captain Henry Morgan in the original novella "The Maid on the Shore,"or the tiny California beach community assaulted by Lovecraftian terrors in "Calamari Curls," or the girl menaced by a haunting photograph and a trio of aspiring vampires at the heart of "Portrait, With Flames," Kage Baker distinguishes herself throughout Dark Mondays as a storyteller extraordinaire, crafting intricately woven plots, compelling characters, and captivating settings filled with convincing detail.

As likely to shock and surprise as it is to fill you with a sense of weird wonder and delight, Dark Mondays will entrance you with its inventive prose, astound you with its action, and seduce you with its style.

Dark Mondays features five never-before-published stories, including the forty-one-thousand-word pirate novel, "The Maid on the Shore," which chronicles the lesser known aspects of Captain Henry Morgan's infamous sacking of Panama City.

About the Author

Kage Baker was an artist, actor, and director at the Living History Centre and taught Elizabethan English as a second language. She is best known for the Company books featuring historical time-travel science fiction. Her books and stories were nominated for Hugo and World Fantasy awards, and won a Nebula and the Theodore Sturgeon Award. Born in 1952 in Hollywood, she died on January 31, 2010.