{"product_id":"the-muse-within-us-malory-9798199906081","title":"The Muse Within Us: An Anthology of Dark Fantasy and Horror","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat happens when inspiration stops feeling entirely human?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaintings that command armies. Songs that shatter crowds. Ancient poems that speak directly into an immortal ear. A revolver forged from the ruins of Earth, passed from hand to hand across generations, delivering justice with a chorus of the dead riding in its steel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Muse Within Us\u003c\/i\u003e is an anthology of dark fantasy, horror, military science fiction, and literary speculation. These eleven stories all ask one question: does inspiration come from within, or are we tuning into signals already moving through the world?\u003cbr\u003eEditor Wally Waltner has gathered writers from across the speculative spectrum. Within these pages: a sorcerer-seamstress transformed into a dragon by her masterpiece; a court prince whose animation magic revives a forgotten civilization; a musician haunted by crowd-controlling spirits called the whispers, carrying two hundred dead from one show; a Norse scholar who realizes he has been speaking ancient kennings directly into an immortal ear; and a war painter ordered by a god of war to paint ever bigger victories until he refuses and pays the price.Also here: a baker empowered by a minor demon of boiling oil trapped in petrified wood; a mason's boy whose hands transform into the arches of a destined cathedral; a blues musician whose song outlives him through new vessels; a gunsmith on a dead Earth forging a revolver that carries a chorus of voices across centuries; and a young woman who discovers that flowers blooming where bodies fell grant strange artistic power at a terrible cost.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome of these muses are generous. Several are predatory. All of them change the people they pass through.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Muse Within Us\u003c\/b\u003e because what moves through you may have its own agenda.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Malory,Fred Phillips,J. Kenton Pierce\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798199906081\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/03\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 290\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.86lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.65d","brand":"Malory","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49173518254335,"sku":"9798199906081","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f9b4ad31-b351-4949-84ed-e0aef69a2d8b.jpg?v=1788955076","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-muse-within-us-malory-9798199906081","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}