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A Cast of Crows

By Danielle Ackley-McPhail & Greg Schauer &
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Publisher Description

Life and Death and All Points In Between

Crows have seen it all, and though they haven't always lived to tell the tale, still they play their part. We bring you ten tales inspired by the master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe, paying tribute to his undying fascination with mankind's decaying state, both mental and physical.

In conjunction with the Tell-Tale Steampunk Festival, we bring you stories by Aaron Rosenberg, David Lee Summers, Judi Fleming, Dana Fraedrich, James Chambers, Jessica Lucci, Doc Coleman, Michelle D. Sonnier, Danielle Ackley-McPhail, and Ef Deal. Introduction by Levi Leland and Virginia Poe of the Beyond the Oblong Box Podcast

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“Poe requires no introduction. At this point, I feel, neither does steampunk - top-hats with goggles and Victorian steam-powered automatons are either your thing or they're not. A Cast of Crows takes the very natural evolution of putting the two things together. Poe's range of themes- from horror to mystery to lovelorn, are both seminal and perfect jumping-off points for innumerable steampunk adventures. This fun little collection is very true to it's name - it has quite a cast of crows, and ravens (clockwork and otherwise). Indeed if one had never heard of E.A. Poe they might think corvids were the actual connective tissue. But baring the feathers, the authors featured each riff off, and pay homage to, the old Virginian's themes and imagery. None are straight retellings of a Poe tale, which is actually quite refreshing. A knowledgeable reader may notice the occasional raven alighting on a bust - and frankly a couple more than are really necessary croak "Nevermore" - but in general the connection is thematic. There are plenty of mysterious murders, live burials, and ominous costume parties. These just happen to occur on airships or in automaton workshops. And while there are no golden bugs, there is a ship called The Goldbug that a Union spy/were-raven has to divert from the Confederates. Even Edgar Allen Crow comes of as charming in one story. I giggled. The stories have diverse casts of POV characters, and for the most part acknowledge, where appropriate, the imperialist and colonizer underpinnings of the late 19th/early 20th Century settings. I was not familiar with the contributors prior, but it seems many of them already have a pedigree of steampunk stories. This has been a neglected area in my reading, but after a collection of solid little adventures like this, I may be picking up a pair of goggles in the near future.”

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