Lord Of Dark Places

Hal Bennett

A detective story, a black comedy, a tragedy, Lord of Dark Places, thirty-five years out of print, is a dissertation on the histories and stereotypes that conspire to man and to unman Black Americans by a Faulkner Award-winning writer.

“Bennett is a New York Genet.”
—New Statesman

5 x 8, 285 pages, Paperback, $14.95, ISBN 1-885983-12-3

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About the Author

Hal Bennettt, born in 1930 and attended Mexicao City College where he was a fellow of the Centro Mexicano de Escritores. He was the winner of a Faulkner Award and in the mid 1960’s was named the most promising writer of the year by Playboy Magazine. Bennett, an African-American writer, is known for his irreverance, iconoclasm and his sense of the absurd.

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