The Long Dark Night of the Soul: The Magicians

By Rachel Lawson

Anthology of grim reaper the Magicians stories

including:  The Long Dark Night of the Soul

Even a Grim Reaper can go stir-crazy.l

Mortimer the grim reaper Magician goes stir-crazy while trying to do his job of judge of the dead.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Rachel Lawson
• Release date: Feb 8, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215542651

Rachel Lawson

Rachel is a lover of gothic poetry and the stories of Emilly Dickensen, Poe, and other poets and writers. she writes in a gothic sometimes romantic, and somewhat eclectic style. She likes to do a good job in whatever she does, and she tried her hand from amateur Magic to designing objects for 3d printing. She has loved writing since primary school at high school she wrote plays and wrote short stories and made her essays look like books she has been in training for quite a while. She first wrote about the magicians in her teens. She devised Stand and Deliver: In The Moonlight in her 20's as a short story and re-wrote the story in her 40's. She wrote poetry and story into her 20's and took a break from writing for a few years while she helped out as a stage assistant in a local theatre. In her 30's she discovered Allpoetry.com and has written there ever since. She loves to write books, has podcasts and even made audiobooks. She wrote Vivienne and the reaper her tale of life, love and death as a collections of poems for Allpoetry contests and added them together into one collected short story. Rachel is a poet-writer versed in prose as much as she is rhyme. She loves to weave words and for the most part has no idea where the words are leading her to, she finds it the fun way to write. In author's words on her writing style from her poem The Flow of Magical Words. "I love words, which pour easily from my pen, when I put pen to paper a world of words does open, it flows on the page it's soul mate, though no one can read the scrawl of words which well inside and opens a gate, out comes beauty, rhymes of passion, sage words and gloom, rhyming poem, deathly prose dark as the hand of doom, the right word is magic in my hand, like a lover sigh lightly fanned." Videos are readings of her poems. Rachel's poems are on google play music and iTunes music also on amazon digital music in audio and Kobo too. Rachel is also webmaster to her own poetry website rachellawsonpoet.yolasite.com/ contact her via email there. Rachel is a distant relative and big fan of the famous but little know writer Fanny Burney who wrote Evelina who inspired Jane Austin. To learn of her google her name to find her book look on amazon she's every where.

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The Long Dark Night of the Soul

The Magicians

Rachel Lawson

Published by Rachel Lawson, 2023.

The Magicians :

The Long Dark Night of the Soul

By Rachel Lawson

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Copyright Rachel Lawson 2023

Table of Contents

Title Page

Copyright Page

Danse Macabre

Hello darkness, my old friend

The Emperor is dead, long live the King

OlderMort

Christmas is Hell

God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

The Grinch Returns

The Long Dark Night of the Soul

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Danse Macabre

W elcome to our show , said an unseen man's voice to an audience somewhere on a stage of a small theatre in Melbourne, Australia.

The owner appeared on stage in a puff of smoke. Hello I am Blake Fire, said the man a stage magician in a black tux and tophat looking very handsome. Another man in a tux wandered on stage he was his partner in the act. And he is Max  Starfire, my assistant, said Blake.

Your assistant my Ar- said Max going silent when the stage manager screamed at him in his head on a hidden earphone. 

The audience laughed.

Max!  Put a rabbit in it! said Blake pulling a cute white rabbit out of his hat and giving it to Max who fumed.

You know I don't like animals! said the vampire Max making it disappear into thin air he was in a huff.

The audience cheered thinking it was part of the act.

Blake made a dove appear it flew off stage pooping on Max's head.

Max was not happy.

Blake looked nervous. The audience laughed again.

Apparently animals don't like you either, Blake said.  The audience roared with laughter. Max looked annoyed.  He made the poop disappear into thin air. "Thanks, A lot for