The Lord Came at Twilight
"Reading the stories in this wonderful debut collection from Daniel Mills is like waking into an older, haunted America. The God of the Puritans holds sway, with terrible power and terrible beauty. The night is wondrous with spirits. Though these stories bear the influence of Hawthorne, Lovecraft, and Palliser, the numinous dread fills them is his alone. Mills recalls to us America's own dark wood, and it is lovely to behold." --Nathan Ballingrud, author of North American Lake Monsters"The Lord Came At Twilight is silk-smooth and as dark as the shaft of an off boarded-over mine. Mills takes us that place and drops us in. He's kind enough to flash the lamp light down upon us now and again, so we can glimpse the claw-marks on the rock, the bones, the moving shadows... A terrifically affecting collection." --Laird Barron"Elegant and subtle, Daniel Mills' remarkable debut Revenants was a gift, and with The Lord Came At Twilight, he returns with a collection of graceful hauntings that bring the full range of his eerie and deeply unsettling literary powers to bear. You, lucky reader are about to be taken on a journey with a true Lord of Twilight... I envy you." --Joseph S. Pulver, Sr., author of The Orphan Palace