Lynda Blankenship

Dark Ghosts Rising Lynda Blankenship

Dark Ghosts Rising followsthe ancient tradition of the Celtic storytellers, moving the Short Story to newheights. This is a sampler of dark and thought-provoking trips through modernlife and other worlds. Here the ordinariness of Sergio Burns' charactersare juxtaposed with extraordinary events, as themundane of everyday existence collides with the strange and, sometimes, thesurreal. In these sixteen stories there is something disturbingly compelling,human and real about the characters and the landscapes they inhabit. These areworks of freshness and edginess and emotion, of melancholy and joy, ofsomething new and ground breaking, while retaining a sliver of dark humour and cutting irony. Written with acosmopolitan touch, an innovative euro-lit style, and an extraordinary grasp ofthe human condition. Scotland's gifted son, Sergio Burns uses hisextraordinary powers of invention, combining his skilful use of innovation,technique and structure to take his readers on a great trip.