Dark And Stormy Knight Views

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It was a dark and stormy night is an infamous phrase written by Victorian novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton at the beginning of his 1830 novel Paul Clifford.[1] The annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest uses the phrase as a signifier of purple prose. The original opening sentence of Paul Clifford is an example:

This fine nine urban fantasy collection focuses on dark knights who protect the innocent and the not innocent from dark nights. The anthology contains five strong entries and four solid contributions. The best two tales are Even Hand by Jim Butcher with a Dresden connection as his enemy Marcone has a grudge match with an inhuman sorcerer and Carrie Vaughn's God's Creatures with a Kitty connection...

Edited by P.N. Elrod (pictured), famed author of the VAMPIRE FILES series, DARK AND STORMY KNIGHTS (St. Martin’s Press) is a collection of nine horror/supernatural tales focusing on the modern-day warriors who keep humanity safe from the nightmarish monsters lurking in the shadows. But don’t let the title lead you to expect the long-haired, bare-chested “knights in shining armor” from your grandmother’s romance novels.

With the exception of Deidre Knight’s “Beknighted,” there isn’t much amour here. The stories in DARK AND STORMY KNIGHTS are action-oriented, with tons of bloodshed and mayhem. From the opening gory words of Ilona Andrews’ seductive “A Questionable Client,” this reviewer was relieved that he wasn’t about to read 300-plus pages of deep, passionate kisses and swollen, throbbing man parts.

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