The Lord Came at Twilight

“I know them, these hills.”
In the foothills of the Green Mountains, a child grows up in an abandoned village, haunted by memories of his absent parents. In a wayside tavern, a murderous innkeeper raises a young girl among the ghosts of his past victims. Elsewhere the village of Whistler’s Gore is swept up in the tumult of religious fervor, while in rural Falmouth, the souls of the buried dead fall prey to a fungal infestation.
This is New England as it was once envisioned by Hawthorne and Lovecraft, a twilit country of wild hills and barren farmland where madness and repression abound.
The Lord Came at Twilight presents 14 stories of doubt and despair, haunter and haunted, the deranged and the devout. **
Review
"Reading the stories in this wonderful debut collection from Daniel Mills is like waking into an older, haunted America. The God of the Puritans holds sway, with terrible power and terrible beauty. The night is wondrous with spirits. Though these stories bear the influence of Hawthorne, Lovecraft, and Palliser, the numinous dread fills them is his alone. Mills recalls to us America's own dark wood, and it is lovely to behold." -- Nathan Ballingrud, author of North American Lake Monsters
"The Lord Came At Twilight is silk-smooth and as dark as the shaft of an off boarded-over mine. Mills takes us that place and drops us in. He's kind enough to flash the lamp light down upon us now and again, so we can glimpse the claw-marks on the rock, the bones, the moving shadows... A terrifically affecting collection." -- Laird Barron, author of The Beautiful Thing that Awaits Us All
"Mills has a poetic and visionary style of his own, capable of uncovering the beauty in horror and the horror in beauty. He has Lovecraft's ability to evoke awe and wonder, but he avoids the old writer's hysterical edge and tendency to adjectival excess. The Lord Came at Twilight is a significant and sophisticated contribution to modern weird fiction."  -- Reggie Oliver, Wormwood
About the Author
Daniel Mills is the author of Revenants: A Dream of New England (Chomu Press, 2011), selected by ALA Booklist as one of the Top 10 Historical Novels of 2011. His short fiction has appeared in a variety of horror journals and anthologies, including Black Static, Shadows & Tall Trees, and The Mammoth book of Best New Horror 23. He lives in Vermont.