Black Shapes in a Darkened Room
Black Shapes in a Darkened Room
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Author(s): Moore, Marshall
ISBN No.: 9781608643738
Pages: 314
Year: 202505
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 33.05
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available

Black Shapes in a Darkened Room is a collection of witty, visceral, and darkly imaginative short fiction from the author of the novel The Concrete Sky . Revenge and eroticism, humor and despair, the supernatural and the everyday. Marshall Moore draws new contour lines and makes new connections in this nighttime map of the human soul. "Moore's characters all wear bruise-colored glasses. a perspective which can be both odd and exhilarating" -Gemma Files. Marshall Moore is the author of four novels ( Inhospitable , Bitter Orange , An Ideal for Living , and The Concrete Sky ), four short-fiction collections ( A Garden Fed by Lightning , The Infernal Republic , Black Shapes in a Darkened Room , and Love Is a Poisonous Color ), a collection of essays Sunset House , and a memoir I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind of Thing . His work has appeared in The Southern Review, Litro, Storgy, Passengers Journal, Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, Asia Literary Review, The Barcelona Review , and many other journals and anthologies. He is also the co-editor of three academic books on the pedagogy of creative writing and publishing.


He holds a PhD in creative writing from Aberystwyth University. A native of eastern North Carolina, he lives in Cornwall, England, and teaches creative writing and publishing at Falmouth University.


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