Fantasy Book Critic: Exclusive Cover Reveal: Rainbringer: Zora Neale Hurston Against The Lovecraftian Mythos by Edward M. Erdelac

Today we are enormously excited to reveal the cover for Edward Erdelac's upcoming self-published collection focusing on real-life American legend Zora Neale Hurston. Featuring the amazing skills of Jabari Weathers & Shawn T. King. Checkout the amazing cover below and the official blurb.

The book is releasing on the 4th of May 2021 and you can checkout Ed's account of what inspired him to imagine one of his alltime favourite writers as a force of good against Cosmic forces. He talks vividly about her career as a queen of the Harlem Renaissance, a groundbreaking ethnologist, folklorist, and Hoodoo initiate in these eight tales which are spread out over her lifetime.

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Official Book Blurb: ZORA!

“The oaths of secrecy she [Zora Neale Hurston] swore, and the terrifying physical and emotional ordeals she endured…left their mark on her, and there were certain parts of her material which she never dared to reveal, even in scientific publications.” – Alan Lomax

ZORA! She traveled the 1930’s south alone with a loaded forty four and an unmatched desire to see and to know. She was at home in the supper clubs of New York City, back road juke joints, under ropes of Spanish moss, and dancing around the Vodoun peristyle. Her experiences brought us Their Eyes Were Watching God, Mules And Men, Tell My Horse, and Jonah’s Gourd Vine. But between the lines she wrote lie the words unwritten, truths too fantastic to divulge….until now.

LEAVES FLOATING IN A DREAM’S WAKE, BEYOND THE BLACK ARCADE. EKWENSU’S LULLABY. KING YELLER. GODS OF THE GRIM NATION. THE SHADOW IN THE CHAPEL OF EASE. BLACK WOMAN, WHITE CITY. THE DEATHLESS SNAKE. Eight weird and fantastic stories spanning the breadth of her amazing life. Eight times when she faced the nameless alien denizens of the outer darkness and didn’t blink.

ZORA! Celebrated writer, groundbreaking anthropologist, Hoodoo initiate, footloose queen of the Harlem Renaissance, and Mythos detective.