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A story told through poems about a serial killer who kills a victim that is undying and comes back for more. 

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The gothic tale about a man driven mad by the Ghost of Christmas Future told through poetry. 

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Blood and Fire Publishing is proud to present Dear Love, our new poetry collection.

Delving deeply into the mysteries and mundanities of love, this collection questions what Love means in our lives and what we must be willing to offer of ourselves to experience it fully.

With 75 poems in total, each poem starts as a love letter to Love itself. We hope you will join us on this journey and read more forthcoming titles in this poetry series. 

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 Blood and Fire Publishing is proud to present Key to the Abyss, a new poetry collection by maverick author Thorton Maldonado based on T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land andthe Book of Revelations among other literary torchbearers from Dante and William Blake. In many ways, Key to the Abyss is a refutation of The Waste Land while still paying honor to its poetic legacy.

In this collection of 50 poems broken down into 5 parts, we come face to face with not just everyday evils and societal tragedies, but the nihilism and disconnection gnawing away at our belief in a better tomorrow where we can coexist and thrive. The solution to this "abyss" is twofold: to get out we must go through. We also must embrace what truly makes us human and share in that noble and courageous condition.

Included in this edition are notes from the author explaining the creative process and historical research behind each poem. Poems included in Key to the Abyss are:

Table of Contents

Part I – Thrust in Thy Sickle
1. The Dragon
2. A Collection of Shadows
3. 21st Century Wild Grapes
4. The Other Way
5. The N Word
6. When Kabul Fell
7. Soul of a Poet
8. Death, An Awakening
9. The Seventh Seal
10. Never Enough

Part II – Forsaken Love First Had
11. Prayerfully Yours
12. A Necessary Evil
13. Graffiti Reaper
14. S--t on a Sidewalk
15. Active Shooting Rampage
16. Just Another Dead Rock Star
17. Boy. Meats. Girl.
18. Damnatio Memoriae
19. Hiding One’s Nazi Past
20. Order of the Red Dragon

Part III – Mystery of the Seven Stars
21. Cupid’s Incendiary Devices
22. By Rite of Nekyia
23. Toward a Mourning for Reddened Earth
24. Necromanteion
25. Ekphrasis to a Bad Movie
26. A Mad God’s Dream
27. Through a Jerusalem Night
28. Ubiquity in the F Minor
29. F---ed Up by Default
30. Fatherless and Sons
31. The Fifth Seal

Part IV – Sins Washed in Blood
32. A Guide to Angelic Repossession
33. The Consolation Prize
34. Warfare of Soulmate Unmet
35. The Resurrecting of Morguein
36. Year Zero, 1922
37. Emerald Buddha
38. Lessons Left in the Sand
39. Cannot Help but Die
40. Ode to 20 Years Later
41. Her Struggle (Against Destroying Angels)
42. Bukowski in Heaven
43. Great Resignation

Part V – Athirst of the Fountain
44. Crimson Blindfold
45. Yet Another of Raziel’s Secret
46. The Key to the Abyss
47. The Zeroeth Seal
48. For The Love Of
49. Omega and Alpha
50. The Coil 

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 Blood and Fire Publishing is proud to present And Love Dreamt Its Death, the gothic horror reimagining of the classic myth of Orpheus who goes to the underworld to save his lost beloved. In this modern dark fantasy by maverick author Thorton Maldonado, the protagonist Swan dies only to find himself being persecuted and punished by Death itself. As Swan tries to find his dead beloved Mackenzie, he also finds that Death is in love with his beloved Mackenzie. Death is in fact using the love between Swan and Mackenzie to try to take tyrannical rein over the afterlife where a war between grim reapers is rampant. The very fate of such an epic clash depends if Swan can find Mackenzie and save her before all his memories of their love are lost to the dark truth that will be revealed. Will he save her? Will he have to sacrifice himself to do so? Will Death be stronger than Love? Do you believe in a love deeper than forever? 

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 Blood and Fire Publishing is proud to present this poetry collection inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s immortal classic, The Raven and influenced by the writing of Thorton Maldonado's novella, Nevermore. It is reimaging of the beloved dark fantasy/ horror lost love story with a modern twist. With 100 poems that span the literary spectrum, each has the author's notes so readers can gain insight to the creative process and how the writing diverged from Poe's magnus opus. 

https://www.amazon.com/Nevermore-Midnight-Dreary-Thorton-Maldonado-ebook/dp/B0B9KCCWLY/

 Blood and Fire Publishing is proud to present the Nevermore series, in which Thorton Maldonado (maverick author of And Love Dreamt Its Death, The Quoth and Songs of Love and Death) tells the story of Edgar Allan Poe writing his masterpiece, The Raven while being besieged by dark supernatural forces from without and within. Ultimately, an epic love story about genius, madness, sacrifice and redemption, this dark fantasy/ gothic horror play, A Midnight Dreary, is the first in the Nevermore series that will span the works of Poe and the otherly worlds beyond. For a companion piece, please check out the poetry collection, The Quoth and its forthcoming sequel, which Thorton Maldonado wrote together to be able to write this play in the same prosody and poetic meter as the literary genius. 

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Blood and Fire Publishing is proud to present the breakthrough preeminent poetry collection, Songs of Love and Death, by maverick author, Thorton Maldonado. Initially a scrapbook to his epic dark fantasy novel, And Love Dreamt Its Death, these poems became a compendium of sorts to that gothic reimaging of the myth of Orpheus who goes to the underworld to bring back his lost beloved.

The collection has a diverse range of 100 poems, from the eponymous, "Songs of Love and Death" to the dark and edgy metaphysical contemplations of "Raziel's Secret" and "Fake Spiking the Ball" to the surprisingly humorous "Ode to a Grilled Cheese Sandwich" to the heartbreaking "The Returning of Pandemic Pets." Each poem delves deep into the connection of love and death in our lives and the dynamic that plays out between them, deeper still. Ultimately, it is both a cry against and a survival guide to the nihilism of our times.

With each of the 100 poems comes intimate notes from the author to get behind the scenes to the creative and editing process. In addition, the cover art is original and one of our finest specimens to date. A catalog is also included so you can know what books we have available or will be publishing soon. All in all, this is not just another poetry collection with influences tracing back to Poe, Bukowski, Beckett and Anais Nin, but a piece of art that captures the spirit of the early 21st Century.

Come sing with Blood and Fire Publishing over Songs of Love and Death.