The First Dark Dream

Dark Dreams: A Collection of Horror and Suspense by Black Writers (A Dark Dreams Anthology #1)

Editor: Massey, Brandon
Format: Trade Paperback
Type: Anthology
Page Count: 336pp.
Pub. Date: August 1, 2004
Publisher: Kensington Publishing
Also Pub: April 2009 (MP3 Audiobook — Recorded Books)

In The Dead Of Night . . .
. . . few possess the courage to gaze into the dim corners of darkened rooms . . . to face what lurks in lonely places . . . to traverse the world of the dead. They are the gifted ones. Bear witness to their power as two girls call forth hidden talents to combat an unholy enemy.

Sense it in the calm diligence of a solitary black soldier sent to probe a series of bizarre deaths in a Tokyo shattered by World War II. Smell it in the stingingly antiseptic halls of a hospital where a lonely janitor mops the floors by night, aware suddenly of a ghostly presence at his side.

Fear Lives . . .
. . . and the cursed cringe. These are the bedeviled, the lost ones. Watch as they submit to the alluring songs of sultry sirens, only to be consumed by witchery on the scorched shores of a Caribbean beach. Feel the air thicken with dread just before dawn as a woman faces a chilling figure on an ominous mission.

Experience terror in every tingling tale of this spellbinding anthology.

From family legends to African lore . . . from ancient horror reborn in the jungles of Brazil to mysterious treasure recovered in a suburban garage . . . from weird obsession to forbidden possession, these stories will make your blood pulse, your heart pound, and your mind race. So settle in for a long, strange night — but don’t expect sweet dreams . . .

Table of Contents:

• Resident Evil by Zane
• But Beautiful and Terrifying by Robert Fleming
• He Who Takes Away the Pain by Chesya Burke
• Bras Coupe by Kalamu ya Salaam
• Hair Dreams by Joy M. Copeland
• The Track by L. R. Giles
• If the Walls Could Talk by L. A. Banks
• The Fourth Floor by Ahmad Wright
• Empty Vessel by Lawana Holland-Moore
• I, Ghoul by Christopher Chambers
• Dreads by D. S. Foxx
• Plaything by Terence Taylor
• The Power by Linda Addison
• Red by Rickey Windell George
• Siren Song by Francine Lewis
• Granddad’s Garage by Brandon Massey
• Wild Chocolate by Patricia E. Canterbury
• Cum Onn, It’z Lovely Whether by Anthony Beal
• The Gray Riders by B. Gordon Doyle
• Danger Word by Steven Barnes and Tananarive Due