{"product_id":"darkest-days-and-haunted-ways-by-ashley-dioses","title":"Darkest Days and Haunted Ways by Ashley Dioses","description":"\u003cp\u003eTrade Paperback.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith \u003ci\u003eDarkest Days and Haunted Ways\u003c\/i\u003e, renowned horror poet \u003cstrong\u003eAshley Dioses\u003c\/strong\u003e shows us the twisted roots at the very heart of her bleak and macabre vision. Once meant for inclusion with the rest of her formative work in \u003ci\u003eThe Withering\u003c\/i\u003e but omitted for stylistic reasons, these poems nevertheless attain a doomful thematic cohesion all their own. Originally written by the young poetess between the impressionable ages of fourteen and seventeen, but now polished by an experienced hand, these poems directly reflect—as in a cold, cracked mirror—the angst and emotional turmoil that informed those years of her life. With the publication of this book, these macabre paeans and lamentations of the damned take their rightful place beside \u003ci\u003eThe Withering\u003c\/i\u003e as its indispensable companion volume.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith a foreword by K. A. Opperman and an afterword by the author.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e100 pages - 6x9 trade paperback - Illustrated\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"...if ever there was a sorceress of imagery and language, that poet is the magnificent Ashley Dioses.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—W. H. Pugmire\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Gruesome, gory and glorious. Ashley Dioses' latest collection is the splayed corpse of a young poet. Lovers of dark poetry, those fascinated with the whole spectrum of all of death's colors, will find exquisite work in these pages.” —\u003cstrong\u003eS. L. Edwards\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eIn the Devil's Cradle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eDarkest Days and Haunted Ways\u003c\/i\u003e is sensuous and sensual, grim and madly gay. It evokes primal, hungry rites, and recalls the half-forgotten myths of an ancient feminine who is to be both feared and desired. These poems are the mutterings of a witch-woman deep in her cave, wrapped in bones and roots as she listens to the whisperings of worms. Discomfiting, disturbing, galvanizing, and startling.\" —\u003cstrong\u003eRebecca Buchanan\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eNot a Princess, But (Yes) There Was a Pea and Other Poems to Foment Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Refracted by the splintered looking-glass of adulthood, Ashley Dioses' \u003ci\u003eDarkest Days and Haunted Ways\u003c\/i\u003e whispers in the language of teen angst: lachrymose, lyrical, and evocative.\" —\u003cstrong\u003eJessica McHugh\u003c\/strong\u003e, 2x Bram Stoker Award® Nominated author of \u003ci\u003eThe Quiet Ways I Destroy You\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eDarkest Days and Haunted Ways\u003c\/i\u003e, Ashley Dioses exposes the flayed heart of her teenage years, and, in so doing, she reveals some of the origins of the sublime nightshade with which her poetry is filled.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—D. L. Myers\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eOracles from the Black Pool\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCONTENTS:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eForeword: Autopsy of a Poetess\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI. PULSE\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwisted Grin \u003cbr\u003eThat Which Builds from Fear \u003cbr\u003eTwitch \u003cbr\u003eSo Sick \u003cbr\u003ePulse \u003cbr\u003eA Pin-Prick \u003cbr\u003eThe Resolution\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eII. TORN UP INSIDE\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMisery vs. Happiness \u003cbr\u003eDivine Strength \u003cbr\u003eLocked Within \u003cbr\u003eTorn Up Inside \u003cbr\u003eJust a Glimpse \u003cbr\u003eConfined Within\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIII. WITHER\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrained \u003cbr\u003eWhat You Don’t See \u003cbr\u003eBlackout \u003cbr\u003eSweet Sixteen \u003cbr\u003eLevel Unreached \u003cbr\u003eWither\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIV. 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