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.
