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"Youmans is the best-kept secret among contemporary American writers." --John Wilson, editor, Books and Culture

MAZE OF BLOOD Novel. Inspired by the life of Robert E. Howard. Profusely decorated by artist Clive Hicks-Jenkins. Literary / fantastic. "...A haunting tale of dark obsessions and transcendent creative fire, rendered brilliantly in Youmans' richly poetic prose." --Midori Snyder

GLIMMERGLASS IndieFab BOTYA Finalist. Art by Clive Hicks-Jenkins. Novel. "It’s brilliantly well-written, shockingly raw, and transportingly—sometimes confusingly —weird. Glimmerglass shimmers on the boundaries of the real and the unreal, of poetry and prose, of the ordinary and the fantastic. It’s down to the caprice of the individual reader, therefore, to decide exactly what sort of story it’s trying to tell. It’s difficult to overstate the emotional effect that Glimmerglass has had on me. This is a beautiful, complex, moving book. Marly Youmans’s prose flows like clear water, and every image is, as Cynthia observes, “full of meaning” ." -Tom Atherton, "Strange Horizons"

A DEATH AT THE WHITE CAMELLIA ORPHANAGE The Ferrol Sams Award for 2012; Silver Award in fiction, The ForeWord BOTYA Awards. Novel. "It is seldom that a novel from a small university press can compete with the offerings from the big houses in New York. A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage may be the best novel this reviewer has read this year. Its quality and story-telling remind one of The Adventures of Roderick Random, Great Expectation and The Grapes of Wrath among others. The winner of the 2012 "Ferrol Sams Award for Fiction," A Death has the potential to become a classic American picaresque novel. / One wishes, however, that this novel will not get shunted into the regional box and be seen only as a Southern novel. Its themes and the power of its language, the forceful flow of its storyline and its characters have earned the right to a broad national audience." 30 July 2012 ABOUT.COM Contemporary Literature, John M. Formy-Duval.

THALIAD Post-apocalyptic long poem combining elements of the novel and the epic. Art by Clive Hicks-Jenkins. In THALIAD, Marly Youmans has written a powerful and beautiful saga of seven children who escape a fiery apocalypse----though "written" is hardly the word to use, as this extraordinary account seems rather "channeled" or dreamed or imparted in a vision, told in heroic poetry of the highest calibre. Amazing, mesmerizing, filled with pithy wisdom, THALIAD is a work of genius which also seems particularly relevant to our own time. --novelist Lee Smith

THE FOLIATE HEAD Art by Clive Hicks-Jenkins. Collection of formal poetry.

THE THRONE OF PSYCHE Collection of formal poetry. "Youmans is a writer of rare ability whose works will one day be studied by serious students of poetry." Greg Langley, Books editor, The Baton Rouge Advocate, October 2, 2011

VAL/ORSON Novel. "Book of the Year" for 2009 Books and Culture Magazine

INGLEDOVE Fantasy, y.a.

CLAIRE Collection of poetry.

THE WOLF PIT The Michael Shaara Award. Short list, Southern Book Award.

CATHERWOOD

LITTLE JORDAN

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Marly Youmans

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Books from Marly Youmans

Catherwood

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Nineteenth Annual Collection

A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage

Glimmerglass

Little Jordan

Fantasy: The Best of the Year, 2008 Edition

Thaliad

The Wolf Pit

Charis in the World of Wonders: A Novel Set in Puritan New England

Electric Velocipede, Spring 2009

Claire: Poems

Electric Velocipede, Spring 2009 (Electric Velocipede #17/18)

The Beastly Bride: And Other Tales of the Animal People

The Foliate Head

Enemy of the Good (Postscripts #19)

Salon Fantastique

The Throne of Psyche: Poems

Dreams from the Witch House: Female Voices of Lovecraftian Horror

The Curse of the Raven Mocker

The Book of the Red King