The lives of more than twenty-five actresses lost before their time—from Marilyn Monroe to Brittany Murphy—explored in haunting, provocative new work by an acclaimed poet and actress. Amber Tamblyn is both an award-winning film and television actress and an acclaimed poet. As such she is deeply fascinated-and intimately familiar—with the toll exacted from young women whose lives are offered in sacrifice as starlets. The stories of these actresses, both famous and obscure-tragic stories of suicide, murder, obscurity, and other forms of death—inspired this empathic and emotionally charged collection of new poetic work. Featuring subjects from Marilyn Monroe and Frances Farmer to Dana Plato and Brittany Murphy—and paired with original artwork commissioned for the book by luminaries including David Lynch, Adrian Tome, Marilyn Manson, and Marcel Dzama—Dark Sparkler is a surprising and provocative collection from a young artist of wide-ranging talent, culminating in an extended, confessional epilogue of astonishing candor and poetic command. Actresses featured in Dark Sparkler include: Marilyn Monroe Brittany Murphy Dana Plato Jayne Mansfield Jean Harlow Dominique Dunne Sharon Tate Heather O’Rourke Bridgette Andersen Shannon Michelle Wilsey Judith Barsi Peg Entwistle Carole Landis Anissa Jones Susan Peters Barbara La Marr Lucy Gordon Sirkka Sari Li Tobler Thelma Todd Samantha Smith Lupe Valez Taruni Sachdev Rebecca Shaeffer