Dark Arts

The Blood Eagle Has Landed

Stellan Erikkson is about to become the biggest thing to hit the New York art scene since Warhol. His dark and sinister creations have landed him a showing at one of the city's premier galleries, and the art world is abuzz with the prospect of viewing his twisted yet stunning pieces up close. But Stellan craves more. The pieces he plans to display in New York are but a trifle compared to those that reflect his true passion for the Dark Arts: works that require great sacrifice...

Human sacrifice.

Stellan only dares display these gruesome portrayals on the dark web: visual symphonies of human flesh, blood, bone, and sinew arranged by his own brilliant mind into masterpieces of unsurpassed gore and beauty. His fans are willing to pay a premium for them, yet he longs for all the world to appreciate his true genius.

Walking a fine line between the demands of his ego and his instinct for self-preservation, Stellan skillfully maneuvers from one grisly killing to the next, taunting the police with the images of his genius. Always managing to stay two steps ahead. But will he manage to outwit them forever? Will he somehow miscalculate? Or will his next victim be the one that disturbs a hornet's nest of fury and retribution that even a madman as careful and cunning as Stellan Erikkson is powerless to stop?

Just how far is he willing to go... and how far will his adversaries go to stop him?

Dark Arts, the debut novel from Sharon Marie Provost, is a thrilling and terrifying game of cat-and-mouse pitting a brilliant and sociopathic serial killer against a cop with a personal score to settle. From the author of the terrifying short-story collection Shadow's Gate and the co-author of Christmas Nightmare's Eve, All Hallows' Nightmare's Eve, and the two-volume Shades of Love.