The paperback book cover Glowing in Darkness — A novel by Stacy Stewart Smith shows a montage of an antique gold anniversary clock and a painting with a colorful pixelated and paint daub surface and a rust structure on an angle like a cross.

Glowing In Darkness: The Stokerdine Conspiracy — Vol. I Paperback

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An enchanted eighteenth-century clock holds a child's spirit captive. A Brooklyn jazz singer accidentally sets it free — and opens a portal that neither of them can close.

In the 1960s, Allison Mugler's son Martin is diagnosed by Chicago-based award-winning clinical psychiatrist Dr. Marak Burad as having Life Trance Dementia Syndrome (LTDS) — a condition that enables his spirit to float undetected from his body and metaphysically visit other people. His Life Trance becomes trapped in an enchanted eighteenth-century anniversary clock, leaving him a child with special needs.

In 2008, after purchasing the timepiece from a unique shop in Brooklyn, aspiring jazz singer and art collector Charly Bergeron inadvertently releases Martin's Life Trance through his DNA. The act opens a time portal and Martin is perceived as a glowing poltergeist. When Martin and Charly finally meet, they discover a common thread that includes superhuman abilities and an inescapable mission.

Glowing in Darkness is Volume I of The Stokerdine Conspiracy. The complete combined edition is also available.

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About the Author

Stacy Stewart Smith is a New York-based author, fine artist, and couture fashion designer. For many years, Smith has been a college educator, including his current post as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Fashion Design Art at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) of New York. Smith is also the author of CAD for Fashion Design and Merchandising (Bloomsbury, 2013).

Details

Format: Paperback
Pages: 244
ISBN: 978-1522877387
Publication Date: December 13, 2015
Language: English
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Every Stacy Stewart Smith piece begins as a drawing and ends as a decision — a deliberate choice of textile, construction method, and proportion made by a single designer with five decades of practice. The same eye that composes a painting composes a coat: line, weight, negative space, and the relationship between form and the body that inhabits it. Garments are produced in New York City, one at a time, to the measurements and preferences of the individual client. No two pieces are identical. No production run exists. This is not manufacturing — it is making.

The atelier sources textiles for their hand, weight, and longevity. Sustainability here is not a campaign. It is the natural consequence of making only what is wanted, from materials chosen to last, by a craftsman who will not put his name on anything less.