Craig Laurance Gidney: 3 books

Kyle hates living in the frozen northern city. He's lonely, under-employed and a person of color in a mostly white city. A chance meeting with a member of the mysterious Frost Collective opens him to new possibilities. The second in Gidney's Variations series riffs on Hans Christian Andersen's The Snow Queen, with chillingly sensuality.

Magic is more than skin-deep. It hides in the folds of a haunted quilt and illuminates the secret histories of Negro memorabilia. Magic reveals the destiny of a great storyteller and emanates from a sculpture by an obscure Harlem Renaissance artist. Magic lurks in the basement of an inner-city apartment...

For generations, the marsh-surrounded town of Shimmer, Maryland has played host to a loose movement of African-American artists, all working in different media, but all utilizing the same haunting color. Landscape paintings, trompe l'oeil quilts, decorated dolls, mixed-media assemblages, and more,...