Written in Darkness
...Written in Darkness, represents the quintessential statement of Samuelism. “I believe that mental isolation is the essence of weird fiction” he wrote in The White Hands and the isolation of the individual in society is still a major preoccupation, coupled with a singularly vivid understanding of the elusiveness of human identity. This last notion is at the roots of some of the greatest “horror” fiction of the past [....] but it is being tackled today, not least by Mark Samuels, with equal if not greater imaginative insight.
- Reggie Oliver; from his introduction
The book contains nine uncollected stories, five of which are previously unpublished, along with an introduction by Reggie Oliver and calligraphy by Geoff Cox.
The full table of contents is as follows:
- Introduction by Reggie Oliver
- A Call to Greatness
- The Other Tenant
- An Hourglass of the Soul
- The Ruins of Reality
- Alistair
- My World Has No Memories
- Outside Interference
- My Heretical Existence
- In Eternity Two Lines Intersect
The book is a lithographically printed, 128 page sewn hardback with colour endpapers. This edition is limited to 275 copies.
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Mark Samuels
Mark Samuels is a London-based writer of horror and fantastic fiction in the tradition of Arthur Machen and H. P. Lovecraft. Born in 1967 in Clapham, South London, he was first published in 1988, and his short stories often focus on detailing a shadowy modern London in which the protagonists gradually discover a dark and terrifying reality behind the mundane urban world. His works have been praised by Thomas Ligotti and John Pelan amongst others. His debut collection was shortlisted for the British Fantasy Award and his work has appeared several times in the annual anthology The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror.
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