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Who could see anything but the ill-omened figure of Michael Vanstone, posted darkly on the verge of the present time -- and closing all the prospect that lay beyond him?

"We must get rid of him," agreed Anne, looking darkly at the subject of their discussion, who was purring on the hearth rug with an air of lamb-like meekness.

A stern, a sad, a darkly meditative, a distrustful, if not a desperate man did he become from the night of that fearful dream.

A bed supported on massive pillars of mahogany, hung with curtains of deep red damask, stood out like a tabernacle in the centre; the two large windows, with their blinds always drawn down, were half shrouded in festoons and falls of similar drapery; the carpet was red; the table at the foot of the bed was covered with a crimson cloth; the walls were a soft fawn colour with a blush of pink in it; the wardrobe, the toilet-table, the chairs were of darkly polished old mahogany.

Dubbed an 'eroticBlack Mirror', Future Darkly is a web sci-fi series forecasting the future of sexual fantasies, in case case a world where X-rated robots roam the earth as companions to human beings.

It is at once whimsical, darkly comedic, and comes fully illustrated with woodcuts.

Now fans old and new can enjoy the dystopian masterpiece - with another of his classics, A Scanner Darkly - in a stunning two-book illustrated edition courtesy of The Folio Society.

This first book of The Darkly Stewart Mysteries series has received honours from the London, Paris, and Los Angeles Book Festivals, and is now being pitched for television adaptation.

It traces the definition of new masculinity in Scanner Darkly, novel and film, where men are domesticized by social and economic structure.

Critique: A taut novel of suspense with a thread of the supernatural, Visions Through a Glass, Darkly seizes the reader's attention and will not let go.

Chupeco's debut, The Girl from the Well (Sourcebooks, 2014/VOYA August 2014), took the unique approach of telling the tale of a vengeful ghost similar to those in The Ring and The Grudge Japanese horror films, from the darkly poetic perspective of the ghost Okiku.

In the darkly atmospheric setting of Victorian London, multiple characters and narratives interweave with panache.