From the publisher of fantastic and diverse horror storiescomes the second installment in Bram Stoker(r) finalist, Sumiko Saulson’s dark fantasy series, The Metamorphoses of Flynn Keahi, Somnalia.
Turmoil consumes the Underworld when the death of a god leaves a power vacuum. Phobetor, the stern and ambitious god of Nightmares seeks to fill the gap at any cost. Murderous nightmare daemons escape to the mortal realm, placing all of mankind in peril. In the midst of the unrest, star-crossed lovers yearn for one another across the void, one disempowered and bound to the Earth, the other trapped in the land of dreams by a grave sacrifice. Will love conquer all, or is the world’s only salvation a god with an iron fist?
“Sumiko is a writer that puts heart and mind and music into their work and takes the reader on a roller coaster ride of edgy fantasy. You will not be able to predict the twists and turns as this story unfolds. In the end you’ll be fulfilled and ready for more to come in the next book.” – Linda D. Addison, first African-American recipient of the HWA Bram Stoker Award
Horror Addict’s Reviewer, David Watson writes, “Chaos reigns supreme in the land of dreams and in reality. Earth’s only hope is in the hands of two lovers who have been separated after making a supreme sacrifice.”
Sumiko Saulson is a Bram Stoker Nominated poet for their 2022 collection The Rat King: A Book of Dark Poetry (Dooky Zines), and an award-winning author of Afrosurrealist and multicultural sci-fi and horror.
Sumiko is also the winner of the HWA Scholarship from Hell (2016) BCC Voice “Reframing the Other” contest (2017), Mixy Award (2017), Afrosurrealist Writer Award (2018), HWA Diversity Grant (2020), HWA Richard Laymon Presidents Award (2021), Ladies of Horror Fiction Readers Choice Award (2021)
Sumiko has an AA in English from Berkeley City College, writes a column called “Writing While Black” for a national Black Newspaper, the San Francisco BayView is the host of the SOMA Leather and LGBT Cultural District’s “Erotic Storytelling Hour.”
Somnalia: The Metamorphoses of Flynn Keahi is available online, via the the Mocha Memoirs Press website, and at fine brick-and-mortar bookstores.
