Daniel "D.C." Coleman
Author of Dark Literary Fiction
The Shadow • Of Death and Life
THE SHADOW
Novel
A dark literary novel about memory, identity, and the shadows we leave behind. When an FAA investigator is put on trial for sabotaging an airliner, The Shadow explores the uneasy boundary between who we are and who we remember ourselves to be.
OF DEATH AND LIFE
A darkly comic journey through Heaven, Of Death and Life follows a man with no memory as he searches for answers across the afterlife. Along the way, faith, identity, love, and the meaning of life are put to the test.
OF DEATH AND LIFE: THE SPECIAL EDITION
Novel
The first edition of Coleman's novel, Of Death and Life: The Special Edition, features illustrations by Hieronymus Bosch, cover art by Michelangelo Buonarroti, and the original, unedited stage play as written and directed by Coleman in 2016. This edition is available for a limited time only.
DEATH BANQUET: THE MODERN SYMPOSIUM
Short Story
Set in Prohibition-era Philadelphia, Death Banquet: The Modern Symposium reimagines Plato’s The Symposium through gangsters, philosophers, romance, and gunfire in a darkly comic exploration of love and desire.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Daniel “D.C.” Coleman is an author of dark literary fiction whose work blends philosophical ideas, satire, and literary storytelling. His fiction explores questions of memory, morality, identity, faith, and love.His work includes the novels The Shadow and Of Death and Life, as well as the short story Death Banquet: The Modern Symposium, published in Aporia.