Love, lust, longing, loss and lament are the only things you will find within this grim book of poems and short stories. Do you find yourself smiling to the sound of rain? Feeling alive when in pain? Do you bow your head to show the lonely raven your respect? When darkness settles, like mist in a graveyard, do you go to bed or do you stay up to witness the stars' wonderful display? This collection of poems and stories are for the one whose heart refuses to heal, for the one whose soul grows and rots with the seasons, for the reader who calls night, decay, and darkness his home and death his faithful friend and conductor. If this is who you are, I welcome thee, children of the night.