A man investigates rumors of the supernatural in post-Civil War Vermont in a "stunningly twisted tale mired in history from a master of the macabre" (Booklist).
Nine years have passed since the end of the American Civil War, and Silas Flood, helpless to escape its shadow, is a broken man in a broken country. In the summer of 1874, he is dispatched to the mountain village of Moriah, Vermont, to investigate sensational claims of supernatural happenings at a wayside inn. There, the brothers Thaddeus and Ambrose Lynch are said to converse with spirits and summon the dead.
In Moriah, Flood encounters others like himself: a grieving couple, a childless widow. By day he questions the Lynch brothers, who prove less than forthcoming. They too are haunted by buried secrets and old ghosts. In the evenings he attends séances where the resurrected dead dance, sing, and give comfort to the living. As Flood investigates the true nature of these phenomena, he is forced to come to terms with his own past--and with the hold it has upon him.
"Mills deftly jumps between narratives as the story unfolds, his prose saturating every page with dread as he teases out his characters' secrets and lies. [An] intense novel." --Publishers Weekly
About the Author :
Daniel Mills: Daniel Mills is the author of Revenants: A Dream of New England (Chomu Press, 2011) and The Lord Came at Twilight (Dark Renaissance books, 2014). His short fiction has appeared in various magazines and anthologies including Black Static, Shadows & Tall Trees, The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, and The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror. He lives in Vermont.
Review :
Praise for Revenants:
Stunning Otherworldly fiction from a promising new talent.
-- Booklist (starred review). A Booklist top 10 historical fiction title, 2011.
A powerful and compelling novel of colonial America, one which has about it the feel of the genuinely weird and mysterious Daniel Mills is a writer to watch
-- Black Static
Praise for the Lord Came at Twilight:
Mills has a poetic and visionary style of his own, capable of uncovering the beauty in horror and the horror in beauty The Lord Came at Twilight is a significant and sophisticated contribution to modern weird fiction.
-- Reggie Oliver
Though these stories bear the influence of Hawthorne, Lovecraft, and Palliser, the numinous dread that fills them is his alone. Mills recalls to us America s own Dark Wood, and it is lovely to behold.
-- Nathan Ballingrud
These stories inhabit the modes of the past as a means to approaching a profound darkness, one physical and metaphysical. A pleasure to read, Daniel Mills s fiction would draw approving nods from any of the austere presences in whose literary footsteps he is following.
-- John Langan
The Lord Came at Twilight is silk-smooth and as dark as the shaft of an off boarded-over mine. Mills takes us to that place and drops us in. He s kind enough to flash the lamp light down upon us now and again, so we can glimpse the claw-marks on rock, the bones, the moving shadowsA terrifically affecting collection.
-- Laird Barron
If you like your horror well written, haunting and resonant, look no further: Daniel Mills is your Man!
-- Rue Morgue Magazine"
Praise for Revenants:
"Stunning... Otherworldly fiction from a promising new talent.
-- Booklist (starred review). A Booklist top 10 historical fiction title, 2011.
"A powerful and compelling novel of colonial America, one which has about it the feel of the genuinely weird and mysterious... Daniel Mills is a writer to watch"
-- Black Static
Praise for the Lord Came at Twilight:
"Mills has a poetic and visionary style of his own, capable of uncovering the beauty in horror and the horror in beauty... The Lord Came at Twilight is a significant and sophisticated contribution to modern weird fiction."
-- Reggie Oliver
"Though these stories bear the influence of Hawthorne, Lovecraft, and Palliser, the numinous dread that fills them is his alone. Mills recalls to us America's own Dark Wood, and it is lovely to behold."
-- Nathan Ballingrud
"These stories inhabit the modes of the past as a means to approaching a profound darkness, one physical and metaphysical. A pleasure to read, Daniel Mills's fiction would draw approving nods from any of the austere presences in whose literary footsteps he is following."
-- John Langan
"The Lord Came at Twilight is silk-smooth and as dark as the shaft of an off boarded-over mine. Mills takes us to that place and drops us in. He's kind enough to flash the lamp light down upon us now and again, so we can glimpse the claw-marks on rock, the bones, the moving shadows...A terrifically affecting collection."
-- Laird Barron
"If you like your horror well written, haunting and resonant, look no further: Daniel Mills is your Man!"
-- Rue Morgue Magazine
Praise for Revenants: "Stunning... Otherworldly fiction from a promising new talent.
-- Booklist (starred review). A Booklist top 10 historical fiction title, 2011.
"A powerful and compelling novel of colonial America, one which has about it the feel of the genuinely weird and mysterious... Daniel Mills is a writer to watch"
-- Black Static
Praise for the Lord Came at Twilight:
"Mills has a poetic and visionary style of his own, capable of uncovering the beauty in horror and the horror in beauty... The Lord Came at Twilight is a significant and sophisticated contribution to modern weird fiction."
-- Reggie Oliver
"Though these stories bear the influence of Hawthorne, Lovecraft, and Palliser, the numinous dread that fills them is his alone. Mills recalls to us America's own Dark Wood, and it is lovely to behold."
-- Nathan Ballingrud
"These stories inhabit the modes of the past as a means to approaching a profound darkness, one physical and metaphysical. A pleasure to read, Daniel Mills's fiction would draw approving nods from any of the austere presences in whose literary footsteps he is following."
-- John Langan
"The Lord Came at Twilight is silk-smooth and as dark as the shaft of an off boarded-over mine. Mills takes us to that place and drops us in. He's kind enough to flash the lamp light down upon us now and again, so we can glimpse the claw-marks on rock, the bones, the moving shadows...A terrifically affecting collection."
-- Laird Barron
"If you like your horror well written, haunting and resonant, look no further: Daniel Mills is your Man!"
-- Rue Morgue Magazine
