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Looking on Darkness

 

A British psychologist with a mysterious past and strange powers.
A former monk with the voice of an angel and untamable vanity.
A jazz performer who derives her confidence from a secret lover.
A college student obsessed with becoming someone’s “Lolita.”

These four haunted characters take separate paths to meet in 1991 Milwaukee, and the alchemy of their union creates thrilling, bizarre, magical and deadly results.

Looking on Darkness is Diana Laurence's first full-length work outside the romance genre, and draws heavily from the psychoanalytical theory of Carl Jung. It is a mainstream novel of psychological vampirism that explores the deepest caverns of the mind and the darkest corners of the heart.

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Rating: PG-13
Publisher: Living Beyond Reality Press
Publication Date: April 2009
Genre: Mainstream Paranormal
Pages: 248 print, 168 pdf
Word Count: 84,000
Trade Paperback ISBN: 978-0-9792741-7-6
Trade Paperback Price: $11.99 (15% off from LBR Press)
eBook ISBN: 978-0-9792741-8-3
eBook Price (pdf format): $4.99 (15% off from LBR Press)
Cover design and photography: Katie Nelson

   
   
   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

READER COMMENTS ON LOOKING ON DARKNESS:

From reader Ruth D.

   I just finished Looking on Darkness, and I really loved it! I keep returning to your idea that "people feel true desire only for those they sense they have possessed but have lost." The other gem for me (besides the amazing interior lives of the characters and their interactions with each other) was the Abbot's statement that "there have been as many manifestations of God as there have been believers." Fascinating thoughts!