WRENN MCMASTER
As the author of In The Darling Dark, I am aware of what an odd duck this book is. There may be readers who are unable to connect with the story-within-a-story structure or feel they struggle to properly order the intention behind the various parts and how they link at the conclusion of the story.
What excites me most though is the possibility of further engagement that may take place when these readers begin to identify new connections within themselves, even if, at first, they couldn’t quite put their finger on why something just seems to be insidiously nagging at them.
I’m fond of the idea that I may one day discover a reader who felt compelled to “write their own ending,” or possibly even took it the next step and created their own reflective fiction via a subject-adjacent avenue, if only so they could make right whatever they felt this author got wrong in the telling of the tale.
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- Wrenn McMaster
IN THE DARLING DARK
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Metaphysical fantasy fiction; A dark psychological allegory of the suspense and mystery of metaphysical manifestation; an ominous tale of complex isolation
Nineteen-year-old Glynis Albion isn’t like the others in Darling. With uncommon beauty and a history of sadness and loss, she is as isolated as the remote location in which she resides. The pain of Glynis’s past, coupled with the mystery surrounding the disappearance of her best friend, has left Glynis open to a secret. A dark menace that has been watching and waiting, biding its time, until just the right moment.
Long before Sabelle Sabin became lost to Glynis, she’d been found by another. A being that stalked its way into Sabelle’s heart, compelling her into an otherworldly conflict from which she had never been meant to escape.
Of course, none of this would have mattered were it not for Glynis’s quirky aunt, Libby, whose youthful alchemical interests ultimately thrust her into a confounding world of divination, danger, and deceit. A precarious flirtation that would prove to have immeasurable, unintended consequences.
Unaware of the plights that would befall Sabelle and Libby, Glynis knows only that since she lost them, she’s felt trapped on her family’s land in a self-imposed exile. And while the greatest mystery for most folks in town is the strange lacerations that have been appearing without explanation for countless years on the otherwise healthy residents of Darling, Glynis will soon find that the vision she can no longer trust will draw her toward one of nature’s darker creations, awakening a new understanding of the truth behind what lies in the shadows.
