by Darrin Doyle is celebrating the 10th anniversary of his story collection The Dark Will End the Dark with a cool new release and a brand new story included. It’s coming out October 7th with Tortoise Books and it’s a great way to start the transition into the cooler, darker, fall months. The stories all revolve around body parts, and they are incredibly unsettling.
“In these haunting stories, our gods are dead, our beloved are ghosts, our body parts are burned, deformed, missing, even fed to our children – and still we humans go on hoping, wanting, hurting, and hungering.”
— Kelcey Ervick, author of The Keeper
More About The Dark Will End The Dark and Darrin
A group of tugboat passengers grapples with a disturbing loss. A record-holding hiccuper confronts his condition – and a troubling secret. A wife wonders what to do when her husband’s head stops working – but his body stays alive. A man struggles with the memory of the time he saw his friend swallowed whole by a neighborhood girl with supernatural powers.
In this classic set of Midwestern Gothic stories by Darrin Doyle, we see the strange hold hands with the familiar – and seem all the more strange as a result. A set of tall tales (and medium-height ones) told with Nabokovian prose, this stunning and visceral collection by the author of The Beast in Aisle 34 will linger long after the last page.
Darrin Doyle is the author of seven books of fiction, most recently the novella Let Gravity Seize the Dead (Regal House) and the novel The Beast in Aisle 34 (Tortoise Books). His short stories have appeared in many literary journals such as Alaska Quarterly Review, The Macguffin, and Puerto del Sol. He teaches at Central Michigan University. He has worked as a paperboy, a janitor, a mover, a telemarketer, a door-to-door salesman, a Kinko’s Copy Consultant, a porn store clerk, a pizza delivery guy, a prep cook, a magazine store clerk, a technical writer, a freelance newspaper writer, an English teacher in Japan, and finally, a professor and an author. Darrin has a brown belt in Tae Kwon Do and wishes he had stuck with it a little longer to get the danged black belt. Darrin hoards and plays lots of musical instruments: guitar, piano, drums, mandolin, banjo, bass, ukelele, and a diatonic 4-string stick dulcimer. His website is www.darrindoyle.com
