Dark Arts by Eric Stener Carlson (Tartarus Press, 2022) Limited Edition Hardcover

Eric Stener Carlson. Dark Arts. Leyburn, North Yorkshire: Tartarus Press, 2022. Hardcover. 243 ages. Limited to 300 copies. Condition: New Description from the publisher: Eric Stener Carlson’s short stories navigate dark spaces, intertwining life with death and art. His characters seek enlightenment in music, literature, painting and photography, but they also find darkness—something menacing, magical and obscure. Art is a spirit board allowing them to contact shades from the past, or to discover danger in the shadows. A man keeping vigil at the bedside of his dying lover hears jazz that reminds him of a girl he lost long ago. At a late-night coffee shop, a professor clings to the diary of a dead man, but it fails to give him the protection he’s longing for. A girl wrapped up in the wonders of a book tumbles down the stairs and wakes up in a world beyond her dreams. A refugee paints the last picture the world will ever know. Lyrical and haunting, these twelve stories (ten published her