Edge
of Night
A
Collection of Short Stories
Ann
Gimpel
Dream Shadow Press
60K words
Release Date: 12/16
Genre: Paranormal and Horror
with a splash of romance and scifi
Book Description:
Here’s a roadmap to Edge of Night.
Welcome to an eclectic collection of nine short stories.
You’ve done time at the edge of
night. Nail-biting, stomach-churning time filled with hissing snarls, menacing
growls, the whoosh of unnatural wings, and the flash of hellfire. Time that
lasts forever, but is over within seconds because time becomes unpredictable in
places like that. You don’t want to stay, but it’s too fascinating—in a grisly,
macabre, toe-curling kind of way—to turn your back on.
You recognize it, though. The place
just at the threshold of darkness where it’s not quite safe anymore. Evil broke
its bounds at the edge of night, or maybe it always ran free and we’ve been
deluding ourselves all along.
Join me for nine supernatural
tales. Monsters, demons, gods—fallen and otherwise—ghosts, aliens. A touch of
science fiction. More than a splash of romance. From magical lands to a
chilling glance into the past, Edge of Night has something to tempt everyone.
Everyone who craves danger, that is. It takes guts to read the stuff woven into
nightmares.
It’s a tough job, but you’re up to
it.
Welcome to my world. A world where
magic holds court and the dude next door just might be a demon. Or a shifter.
Or an alien.
Find Ann At:
@AnnGimpel (for Twitter)
Guest Post
Please welcome Edge of Night author Ann Gimpel to Diane’s Book Blog.
Jung and the Paranormal
First off, thanks so much for inviting me back to your blog.
I truly appreciate the support and hope the new year is being good to you.
Jung was born in 1875 and graduated from medical school
around 1900. He saw himself as a man of science, not as a mystic. That label
has grown since his death. It’s true that Jung was fascinated by “soft
science.” For example, he believed in astrology. There are a few “Jungian
astrologers” around today. They have a slightly different take on reading
charts. In any event, before Jung would accept an analysand (Jungese for
patient), he sent them off to have their chart done to see if their energies
would be a good blend with his own.
Before you scoff and stop reading, remember that Jung was a
psychiatrist. He treated mental illness before we had drugs to blunt the most
severe symptoms, and he had a surprising amount of success “curing” illness we
consider incurable today, like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. This is a
gross simplification, but he joined patients in their delusions so he could
understand them, and helped them find ways out of the twisted labyrinth their
minds had become.
Traditional analysis is an extremely intimate relationship
between doctor and patient. Patients spend several hours a week in the doctor’s
office analyzing dream material to shed light on the roots of their problems.
While modern psychotherapeutic approaches focus on symptom alleviation,
analysis aims to integrate a person’s psyche so they can transform themselves
into fully functioning human beings.
While treating his patients, Jung was struck by the
similarity of the material presented by those with mental illness. This led him
to postulate the existence of a collective unconscious that collects and
organizes our experience as human beings. He traveled widely and did research
into primitive cultures. The commonality in symbolic drawings led to further
fleshing out of his theories of the collective (as opposed to our personal)
unconscious.
This is getting long for a guest post, so let me wrap it up
on a personal note. I was drawn to depth psychology because of its potential to
enrich us. That we are alive at all is one of the mysteries, and I don’t want
science to explain everything away. If any of you are interested in learning
more about Jung, try Man and His Symbols
or Memories, Dreams, and Reflections.
Thanks again for inviting me. I’d be glad to answer
questions added to this post as comments.
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