£160.00
Remarqued edition, featuring an original pencil sketch drawn by the illustrator (Amy Higgins / Black and Bone) directly on the signature or half-title page, making each copy entirely unique.
Some rubbing to the goldfoil on the edge of the text block
1 in stock
Description
Those who love Folk Horror and the work of M R James and Arthur Machen will find themselves in a familiar world of scholarly reverie and the obsessive persuit of arcane knowledge when turning the pages of Ben Tweddell’s new novella
‘The Domain of the Pale Queen’
A hypnotic and fatalistic vein pulses through Tweddell’s exquisitely crafted and sublime prose, where the door to an ancient world is opened, the veil is lifted and a devine and terrible force is awakened.
FULL CONTENTS:
Introduction by Damian Murphy
To Speak in Golden Tongues *
The Domain of the Pale Queen *
The Game of the Great God Pan
The House of the Moon
Includes the brand new novella ‘The Domain of the Pale Queen’ and a new short story ‘To Speak in Golden Tongues’ *
The protagonist of Ben Tweddell’s atmospheric 1930s-set novella, The Domain of the Pale Queen, is a too-curious archeologist, very much in the mould of one of M. R. James’s haunted characters. As Edwin Carrington attempts to uncover a nightmare from the past among the eerie waterlands of the Somerset Levels, ancient sorceries come chillingly to the surface…”
Edward Parnell
Author of Ghostland
