Black Moon - by Eugen Bacon (Paperback)

About the Book

Black Moon is an illustrated collection of speculative flash fiction mixed with prose poetry. It carries themes of love and war, life and the afterlife, hope and despair. It is a philosophical assortment that questions normalcy, embraces opposition, and takes a keen interest on peculiarity. It will appeal to curious lovers of literary dark fantasy.

Book Synopsis

Black Moon is an illustrated collection of speculative flash fiction interspersed with prose poetry. It carries themes of love and war, life and the afterlife, hope and despair. It is a philosophical assortment that questions normalcy, embraces opposition, and takes a keen interest on peculiarity. It will appeal to curious lovers of literary dark fantasy and all places in between.

Review Quotes

"Dark, beautiful, chilling and surreal glimpses of life, love, death and beyond. Poetic and exquisite, these heart-searing fantastical tales will linger and haunt you long after you have put them down." --Steven Paulsen, award-winning author of Shadows on the Wall


"Black Moon is not what you expect. The short fictions are bright as eyes glimpsed in an abandoned house, sharp as wounds, quivering with uncanny metamorphoses. Words and images conspire to imply narrative pathways, before tripping your helpless imagination into its darkest recesses. You turn around and there's nothing there, but it is the nothing that has always followed you, invisible. Black Moon is not what you expect, but you feel its breath, clammy on your neck, and it's much too late to go back now." --Oz Hardwick, award-winning poet and academic


"You've heard these sharp, dark and evocative words of Eugen Bacon's flash fiction--in your dreams or darker visions--but don't know it until you read them, and find they gnaw at your subconscious, demanding to be recalled." --Craig Cormick, award-winning author of Years of the Wolf

About the Author

Eugen Bacon is African Australian, a computer scientist ment­ally re-engineered into creative writing. She's the author of Claiming T-Mo by Meerkat Press and Writing Speculative Fiction by Red Globe Press, Macmillan. Eugen's work has won, been shortlisted, longlisted, or com­mended in national and international awards, including the Bridport Prize, Copyright Agency Prize, Australian Shadows Awards, Ditmar Awards, and Nommo Award for Speculative Fiction by Africans. Website: www.eugenbacon.com Twitter: @EugenBacon Elena Betti is an artist based in Italy.