by E. Curtis
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GENRE: Dark Fantasy
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In
the fall of 1789, on the western edge of the Yorkshire Dales, a dense,
persistent fog enshrouds the village of Ingleton. Shadowed spirits hide in the
mist and bedevil the townsfolk, heralding a tragedy that has befallen one of
their own.
Edmond continues to
search for Alexandra, his fiancée, who disappeared the same night that the mist
set upon their town. Presumed dead by all others, he visits Alexandra's empty
grave, desperate for any hint of what has become of her. Weary from the
sleepless nights on his quest, no longer able to stay awake, Edmond falls into
a dream before her headstone and there obtains clues from Alexandra as to her
whereabouts.
Haunted all the while
by a malevolent spirit, Edmond follows the trail that Alexandra left for him
and enters the underworld, only to learn that he has been there before, and in
fact, quite often. But more, he discovers how he is to blame for Alexandra's disappearance.
A dark literary novel
rich in imagery, Discussion of a Decent Dream unearths the consequences of a
child's decision to surrender his heart in exchange for unholy power and
transcendent knowledge.
Discussion of a Decent
Dream is a Finalist in Britain's Wishing Self Book Awards in the Adult
category.
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Excerpt:
We ignored the portent that crept into the countryside the
day she disappeared. But in the weeks that followed, with no answers as to what
had befallen her, with no assurance that she still lived, we came to
understand, and most saw the worst in the blanket of mist that stopped time and
shut us out from the rest of the world.
I had just turned twenty-one the summer of 1789 when
Alexandra went missing. And after all our fruitless searching, in need of some
direction, I snuck, under the cover of night, into the yard where her parents
had laid their sorrow to rest. Falling to my knees before the stone of her
empty grave I spoke with reverence, not for the hallowed ground, but for the
call that brought me, as though somehow she could hear me.
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E. Curtis draws
on personal experiences of the otherworldly for his writing. Through dreams,
visions, and waking encounters, his exposure to darkness has motivated him to
detail what he has come to know of the preternatural. While a few short pieces
have been published on an online literary magazine, Discussion of a Decent
Dream is his first novel.
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