The Night Marchers and Other Strange Tales
by Daniel Braum
Take a journey to the edge of civilization and go one step beyond to enter mind-blowing worlds of magical wonder and personal revelation that defy conventional reality. Travel the darkly strange passageways of THE NIGHT MARCHERS AND OTHER STRANGE TALES.
Daniel Braum spins a unique blend of speculative fiction that effortlessly blends fantasy, science fiction, mysticism and horror in every verse. Weaving a tapestry of quantum intelligence, the multi-dimensional vistas and dark worlds of spiritualism in THE NIGHT MARCHERS AND OTHER STRANGE TALES explore concepts of advanced science that collide with magical realism in an effort to explain the unexplainable.
Listen to the chords of a psychedelic jazz tune that threatens to herald the end of the world. Travel the sun-soaked beaches of the Caribbean with a young girl possessed by an inexorable power. Play a game of cat and mouse with demons in the lush Central American jungle. Experience a dance of redemption led by the reincarnated soul of an enigmatic Native American legend. Spend an erotically charged evening in the desert that may end in redemption or embraced by the arms of evil. Learn the future from a treacherous Egyptian beast with its sites set not on Bethlehem by Brooklyn.
Partake in all this and so much more with the dangerous and delightfully weird tales in this definitive edition of THE NIGHT MARCHERS AND OTHER STRANGE TALES that includes bonus fiction not found in any other version of this book.
**Review
"Braum presents our world through a lens that reveals the wonderful and the horrifying with masterful, elegant prose. The Night Marchers and Other Strange Tales is a stunning debut from a writer who's been adding to the field of darkly weird literature for years, but who's name is only now beginning to emerge, and it's about time!" - Lee Thomas, Lambda Literary Award-winning and Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The German and *Butcher's Road*
"From the jungles of South America to the mean streets of New York's suburbs, his stories wind through territories that feel at once familiar and strange, exotic and dangerous or maybe just dangerously personal." - David Wellington, author of Monster Island and *Positive*
"Daniel Braum is a true storyteller. The Night Marchers and Other Strange Tales will satisfy your cravings for the fearsome and the weird. These stories will also make you laugh, cringe and damn near weep. This is such a big-hearted and wide-ranging book." - Victor LaValle, author of *The Ballad of Black Tom*
"Faithless women and adventuring lone wolves populate these trippy, fantastical stories of music, magic, and the search for connection. Take some Neil Gaiman, a dash of Kevin Brockmeier, and a whole lot of Long Island garage band, and stir." - Sarah Langan, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of *Audrey's Door*
"One of the brightest young stars in the firmament of dark speculative fiction, Daniel Braum is among the best short story writers we've encountered. When you start reading The Night Marchers, it's readily apparent that you've discovered something special, possibly even transcendent." - Shane Douglas Keene, *This is Horror*
From the Author
PRAISE FOR GREY MATTER PRESS:
"In less than two years, Grey Matter Press has managed to establish itself as one of the premiere purveyors of horror fiction currently in existence via both a series of killer anthologies --SPLATTERLANDS, OMINOUS REALITIES, EQUILIBRIUM OVERTURNED -- and John F.D. Taff's harrowing novella collection THE END IN ALL BEGINNINGS." - FANGORIA
"The dark, all-encompassing theme seems to be the trademark of Grey Matter Press. When asked for a referral I often state without hesitation to the very press that has enchanted my reading attention." - Dave Gammon, HORROR NEWS
Daniel Braum spins a unique blend of speculative fiction that effortlessly blends fantasy, science fiction, mysticism and horror in every verse. Weaving a tapestry of quantum intelligence, the multi-dimensional vistas and dark worlds of spiritualism in THE NIGHT MARCHERS AND OTHER STRANGE TALES explore concepts of advanced science that collide with magical realism in an effort to explain the unexplainable.
Listen to the chords of a psychedelic jazz tune that threatens to herald the end of the world. Travel the sun-soaked beaches of the Caribbean with a young girl possessed by an inexorable power. Play a game of cat and mouse with demons in the lush Central American jungle. Experience a dance of redemption led by the reincarnated soul of an enigmatic Native American legend. Spend an erotically charged evening in the desert that may end in redemption or embraced by the arms of evil. Learn the future from a treacherous Egyptian beast with its sites set not on Bethlehem by Brooklyn.
Partake in all this and so much more with the dangerous and delightfully weird tales in this definitive edition of THE NIGHT MARCHERS AND OTHER STRANGE TALES that includes bonus fiction not found in any other version of this book.
**Review
"Braum presents our world through a lens that reveals the wonderful and the horrifying with masterful, elegant prose. The Night Marchers and Other Strange Tales is a stunning debut from a writer who's been adding to the field of darkly weird literature for years, but who's name is only now beginning to emerge, and it's about time!" - Lee Thomas, Lambda Literary Award-winning and Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The German and *Butcher's Road*
"From the jungles of South America to the mean streets of New York's suburbs, his stories wind through territories that feel at once familiar and strange, exotic and dangerous or maybe just dangerously personal." - David Wellington, author of Monster Island and *Positive*
"Daniel Braum is a true storyteller. The Night Marchers and Other Strange Tales will satisfy your cravings for the fearsome and the weird. These stories will also make you laugh, cringe and damn near weep. This is such a big-hearted and wide-ranging book." - Victor LaValle, author of *The Ballad of Black Tom*
"Faithless women and adventuring lone wolves populate these trippy, fantastical stories of music, magic, and the search for connection. Take some Neil Gaiman, a dash of Kevin Brockmeier, and a whole lot of Long Island garage band, and stir." - Sarah Langan, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of *Audrey's Door*
"One of the brightest young stars in the firmament of dark speculative fiction, Daniel Braum is among the best short story writers we've encountered. When you start reading The Night Marchers, it's readily apparent that you've discovered something special, possibly even transcendent." - Shane Douglas Keene, *This is Horror*
From the Author
PRAISE FOR GREY MATTER PRESS:
"In less than two years, Grey Matter Press has managed to establish itself as one of the premiere purveyors of horror fiction currently in existence via both a series of killer anthologies --SPLATTERLANDS, OMINOUS REALITIES, EQUILIBRIUM OVERTURNED -- and John F.D. Taff's harrowing novella collection THE END IN ALL BEGINNINGS." - FANGORIA
"The dark, all-encompassing theme seems to be the trademark of Grey Matter Press. When asked for a referral I often state without hesitation to the very press that has enchanted my reading attention." - Dave Gammon, HORROR NEWS