The Crow: Shattered Lives and Broken Dreams
Clash By Night
The Lazarus Heart
Quoth the Crow






The Crow: Shattered Lives and Broken Dreams
Editors: Edward Kramer and James O'Barr 368 pages, one edition (November 1998)

With this chilling collection of stories and poems, J. O'Barr--the creator of The Crow--and Ed Kramer host an ominous array of interpretations of the gothic phenomenon by acclaimed writers well acquainted with the dark side, including Alan Dean Foster, Ramsey Campbell, Gene Wolfe, Storm Constantine, Nancy Collins, Andrew Vachss, Iggy Pop, and Henry Rollins.

Featuring original artwork by such top artists as Ron Walotsky, Rob Prior, Tom Canty, Tim Bradstreet, Don Maitz, and Bob Eggleton, The Crow: Shattered Lives and Broken Dreams evokes a modern night-world and its tormented denizens ensnared by unspeakable evil, enslaved by unquenchable longing, engulfed by the thirst for revenge, and enfolded by the enigmatic, eternal wings of The Crow.

Here a resurrected gunslinger gets a final showdown with his archenemy. . . . A murder victim and a dying boy mete out poetic justice to a sadistic criminal. . . . A serial killer turned government assassin takes three abused children under his savage wing. . . . A tormented rogue cop literally fights fire with fire. . . . A wise talking crow guides the vengeful hand of a murdered girl's lover. . . . and much more.

For both the confirmed fan and the curious newcomer, this spellbinding, shocking, darkly sensual collection offers passage to an extraordinary literary realm: a place of macabre morality tales and existential adventures, of terror and tenderness--from which no reader can hope to leave unchanged. For when you take flight with The Crow, there is no turning back.


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Clash By Night (the Crow No. 3)
by Chet Williamson
256 pages, July 1998


A crazed militia has planted a bomb in a day-care center, and a dedicated teacher discovers it just in time to get herself and the children to safety.

Almost. For we are in the dark universe of the crow, where the innocent must die so that justice can triumph.

Where a woman devoted to peace must don camouflage as she prowls with her black-winged familiar through the tangled underworld of hate on a search-and-destroy mission that leads her from gun shows to the rubble of the disaster.

A rubble that is stirring with new and hideous life...


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The Lazarus Heart
by Poppy Z. Brite
256 pages, April 1998


At our human limits, when we've gone as far as flesh and imagination can take us, we meet the Eternal One. The Crow. Immemorially old, and inconsolable, he is there only for those who seek both revenge and love, and are willing to go all the way -- and beyond.

Five, four, three, two...Jared Poe counts the days on Louisiana's Death Row. The controversial S&M photographer has been condemned to die for killing his lover. He doesn't know who did it. Only that he didn't.

Can he clear his name and find the real killer in time?

No. For this is no ordinary thriller. We are in the dark realm of The Crow, and Jared must feel the cold shudder of Death; must hear the beating of black wings; must prowl the shadowy goth netherworld of New Orleans, to prove he was no killer when he died.

And find out what kind of killer he has become.


I am a big Poppy Z. Brite fan and I wrote my own synopses of this book. Read it here.

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Quoth the Crow (the first Crow novel)
by David Bischoff
256 pages, Feb. 1998


Out of the shadows and on the tail of a new TV series and the mega-appeal of "The Crow" movies, comics, and graphic novels comes the first flight of The Crow series. Black magic and blackmail come calling in this violent volume about two Raven mavens with a "Poe-etic" license to kill.

My synopsis: This guy is a writer who is obsessed with Edgar Allan Poe. Somehow he is framed and he comes back to wreak havoc. My ex read this and said it didn't float his boat. He said it focuses too much on Edgar Allan Poe and that the story doesn't really begin until the protagonist dies, which is three quarters of the way through the book. Draw your own conclusions.

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