Darker Angels
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ISBN: 0312872410 / Publisher: Tor Books, December 1999
A mysterious, one-eyed shaman ventures to raise dead soldiers from the bloody battlefields of the Civil War, in a novel that features appearances by Walt Whitman, Abraham Lincoln, Lord Byron, and New Orleans voodoo queen Marie Laveau
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Nominated for the Bram Stoker Award, Darker Angels takes the reader from the bloodstained battlefields of Virginia to the slave auctions of Haiti. As Abraham Lincoln lies in state in new York, the widow of the famous abolitionist has a chance encounter with the poet Walt Witman, who has an astonishing tale to tell. Edgar Allan Poe, Lord Byron, and Marie Laveau, the legendary voodoo queen of New Orleans, all have a part to play in the epic tale of a mysterious, one-eyed shaman who dares to raise the dead from the battlefields of the Civil War.
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