{"product_id":"among-the-lilies-book-daniel-mills-9781988964317","title":"Among the Lilies","description":"\u003cp\u003eA collection of 12 grotesqueries inspired by the natural and psychological landscapes of New England and by the ghosts that walk the places in-between.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe long-awaited new collection of short stories from Daniel Mills, whose literary antecedents include Poe, Hawthorne, Vernon Lee, and John Darnielle. A visionary and poetic stylist. Contains the long out-of-print novella The Account of David Stonehouse, Exile, and two new stories written expressly for this collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn impressive collection of 12 weird tales ... sure to find a readership among fans of macabre and outr  fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Publishers Weekly\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat a fine collection of stories  Fine and strange and challenging, filled with an unearthly light, like something written half by H.P. Lovecraft and half by Robert Frost. The best possible kind of crazy-ass rural prophecy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Pinckney Benedict, Author of \u003cem\u003eMiracle Boy and Other Stories\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDaniel Mills' \u003cem\u003eAmong the Lilies\u003c\/em\u003e is a gorgeous collection of wistful and haunting stories, testimonies of longing and sorrow that linger long after they've left the room. They're so lovely, in fact, that you don't see the great dark truth lurking just behind the words until it's too late, until it's staring right into your soul.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Nadia Bulkin, author of \u003cem\u003eShe Said Destroy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe tales in \u003cem\u003eAmong the Lilies \u003c\/em\u003eare smooth as silk, cool as glass, and dark as a mournful shadow. Daniel Mills writes with an assured hand about themes of supernatural strangeness and sadness, and in prose so understatedly elegant, it's like a balm for the mind. He also displays a sensitive insight into the numinous realm where longing and terror meet spirit and psyche. I almost feel that a new label should be invented to apply to Mills' work: the melancholy weird. I came away from this book feeling darkly dazzled and deeply moved in equal measure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Matt Cardin, author of \u003cem\u003eTo Rouse Leviathan\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGenerally set in the distant past, the stories in Daniel Mills' remarkable \u003cem\u003eAmong the Lilies\u003c\/em\u003e hence have a classical feel, but without ever seeming like pastiches of the work of past masters. At the same time, in the pursuit of his obsessions, Mills' stories are unlike most of the weird fiction and horror one encounters today. These are histories within histories, sediment layers of grief and madness, filled with fossilized ghosts. Herein are recurring themes of religious mania, the mournful fusion of beauty and decay, feverish childhoods and their haunted aftermaths, self-destruction and living death. Daniel Mills' work is very much his own, and as such stands out as something to be relished.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Jeffrey Thomas, author of \u003cem\u003ePunktown\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeft and unsettling, Daniel Mills' \u003cem\u003eAmong the Lilies\u003c\/em\u003e is a haunting enhancement of modern horror fiction - an electrically delicate collection of specters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Clint Smith, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Skeleton Melodies\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49535674876177,"sku":"GOR013494467","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50404911644945,"sku":"CIN1988964318G","price":6.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50404912627985,"sku":"CIN1988964318VG","price":4.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52484571726097,"sku":"NLS9781988964317","price":26.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52759177134353,"sku":"NIN9781988964317","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1988964318.jpg?v=1751156779","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/among-the-lilies-book-daniel-mills-9781988964317","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}