The Great Dark is a collection of short stories in the noir and horror genre. History Horror! These stories give voice to the unheard players of the Great War (1914-1918): the assassin, African-American soldiers on burial detail, women and children from both sides of the fight, and the conscripted soldiers from Russia, the Ottoman Empire, French West Africa, Ireland, and the United States.Meet Gavrilo Princip, the Bosnian student who assassinated the heir to Austria-Hungary, thus precipitating the great war. In 1918, toward the end of the war, he is visited by ghosts as he contemplates whether one person can really make such an impact as starting a world war.In The Green Cloud, Dr. Clara Immerwahr, the wife of the famous WWI German scientist and future Nobel laureate, shoots herself in the garden with her husband’s service revolver. This is the beginning of Clara’s journey into a toxic gas green world where she learns the truth about herself. In the French West African Colony of Senegal in 1917, a grandmother raises the Dark Spirit to assist her in saving her grandson. Here's an excerpt from the story Juju. Grandmother shivered. She dared not speak, but she could not help the tears that formed in her eyes. The dark form came close for a moment, and a harsh smoke filled Grandmother’s lungs. She kept from coughing and fought the desire to run away. The smoke drifted back to the fire. After a long silence it spoke again.“For my amusement, old woman, and because you are a keeper of ancient wisdom and dark ways, I will give you power with your amulets and dreams, power you never imagined. You will save your grandson, but you will agree to my price first.”These are just a few of the stories in this dark fantasy collection of the horrors of World War One.