“Nothing lasts! The faun sleeps, / Smiling, mute, remorseless.” – Ludmila Jevsejeva, Autuna Melodio
In St. Petersburg, amidst an uneasy truce with the revolution, there exists a secret commerce in looted ikons. However who’re the darkish strangers looking for for the Gate of the Archangel? Within the small city of Tzern, information arrives of the dying of the Emperor; in the meantime a postmaster, a priest, a prophet and a war-wearied soldier watch the daybreak for indicators of the longer term. Constantinople: A quest for the misplaced faiths of the previous Ottoman Empire leads a French scholar to imagine that the strangest may additionally be the truest. On the sides of Europe, exiles and idealists meet in a café to speak of their hopes-while sinister forces start to march. These tales, exquisitely advised by Mark Valentine, are about people caught up within the endings of outdated empires-and of what comes subsequent.
Contents
A Sure Energy
The Daybreak at Tzern
A Walled Backyard on the Bosphoros
Carden in Capaea
The Bookshop in Novy Svet
The Autumn Keeper
The Amber Cigarette
The Ka of Astarakahn
The Authentic Gentle
The Unrest at Aachen
The Mascarons of the Late Empire
Acknowledgments
Mark Valentine’s tales have been chosen for Greatest British Quick Tales edited by Nicholas Royle, Greatest New Horror edited by Stephen Jones, The Mammoth Books of Ghost Tales edited by Richard Dalby, and the Ghosts & Students books edited by Rosemary Pardoe, in addition to for a lot of different anthologies. Together with The Swan River Press, he additionally publishes with different unbiased imprints similar to Tartarus Press (UK), Sarob Press (France) and Zagava (Germany). His twenty or so books embrace research of Arthur Machen and the diplomat and fantasist Sarban, and essays on book-collecting and the esoteric. He additionally edits Wormwood, a journal of the incredible.
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