Darker Angels Author:S. P. Somtow Nominated for a 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 a famous abolitionist has a chance encounter with the poet Walt Whitman, who has an astonishing tale to tell. Edgar Allen Poe, Lord Byro... more »n, 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.« less