Straight On 'Til Morning

Straight On 'Til Morning
by Christopher Golden

About the Book:
Straight On 'Til Morning is a nostalgic, coming-of-age tale set in 1981. Kevin Murphy is at a turning point in his life. It's the summer before high school. In just a handful of weeks he'll turn fourteen and he has promised himself that on that fateful day he will finally reveal his true feelings to the girl of his dreams, fifteen-year-old Nikki French. Before he can do that, however, Nikki falls for Pete Starling, an older guy with a serious cruel streak and a pack of buddies who are even meaner.

At first, Kevin is just heartbroken. But then he begins to be afraid. It seems that Starling and his crew are not at all what they appear to be. In order to protect Nikki, Kevin is going to have to gather his own friends around him and journey into another place, a land of war and eternal darkness where there are no heroes... only monsters.

In this brand new novel, Christopher Golden continues to explore the vein of horrific fantasy he began to delve into in the critically-acclaimed Strangewood.

This special Cemetery Dance Publications Limited Edition features a cover painting by legendary fantasy artist Michael Kaluta, as well as interior illustrations (full page artwork for each chapter!) by some of the biggest stars in the world of comic books, including Mike Mignola, Joe Quesada, Arthur Adams, John Cassaday, Michael Zulli, Stephen R. Bissette, Daniel Brereton, J.G. Jones, Joyce Chin, Ryan Sock, Eric Powell, Philip Hester, Glenn Chadbourne, Kyle Hotz, Timothy Bradstreet, Colleen Doran, Randy Green, Terry Moore, Timothy Truman, Kirk Van Wormer, Michael Zulli, and Mark Texeira!

Christopher Golden is the award-winning, bestselling author of such novels as Wildwood Road, The Boys are Back in Town, The Ferryman, Strangewood, Of Saints and Shadows, and the Body of Evidence series of teen thrillers.

Working with actress/writer/director Amber Benson, he co-created and co-wrote Ghosts of Albion, an animated supernatural drama for BBC online, from which they created the book series of the same name.

With Thomas E. Sniegoski, he is the co-author of the dark fantasy series The Menagerie as well as the young readers fantasy series OutCast, which was recently acquired by Universal Pictures.

Golden and Sniegoski also wrote the graphic novel BPRD: Hollow Earth, a spinoff from the fan favorite comic book series Hellboy. Golden authored the original Hellboy novels, The Lost Army and The Bones of Giants, and edited two Hellboy short story anthologies.

Golden was born and raised in Massachusetts, where he still lives with his family. He graduated from Tufts University.

There are more than eight million copies of his books in print.

More projects with Cemetery Dance Publications are in the works.

Published in two states:
• Limited edition of 1,000 signed copies ($40)
• Traycased Lettered Edition of 26 signed and lettered copies bound in leather with a satin ribbon page marker and additional full-color artwork ($175)

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