Their Dark & Secret Alchemy

by Robert Morgan (Editor), Richard Gavin, Colin Insole

Sarob Press is delighted to announce the publication of Their Dark & Secret Alchemy, original stories by a triad of fabulous contemporary authors in a volume of dark and occult supernatural phantasmagoria ~ presenting three all new magical and deliciously macabre novelettes/novellas by:

RICHARD GAVIN ~ TEN OF SWORDS: RUIN
... Secret things, furtive silent rituals, and the revealing of darker truths.

COLIN INSOLE ~ THE DEAD OF MARIDUNUM
... A strange inheritance, a terrible tragedy, and the return of a sinister and ancient terror.

DAMIAN MURPHY ~ THE AXIS OF THE LODESTONE
... Arcane ceremonies, the search for esoteric knowledge, and a sacramental descent into the depths.

142 pages, Hardcover

First published April 15, 2019

About the author

Robert Morgan is an American poet, short story writer, and novelist.

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Reviews

[Karl]

This Sarob Press hardcover is numbered 143 of 250 produced.

Dust-Jacket Art by Paul Lowe.

[Yórgos St. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Probably my favourite Sarob Press book. Richard Gavin's story is the highlight for me. A marvelous story and what an ending! Damian Murphy's output was like a familiar weird dream. There were times in certain passages that Gene Wolfe's New Sun world came to my mind and this is my highest praise for any work of fiction. Colin Insole's story was up to his regular high standards, as always. I cannot recommend this book enough.

[Des Lewis · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nothing is what it seems. Purpose is often a series of unpredictable real-time ricochets, whether disparate or in synergies as guilds, fraternal-ritual or instinctively practical, working against each other in the survival of the fittest or in mutual communes of the weakest first. But l’art pour l’art, as represented by this work, indeed by this whole book, has the optimal pattern of all possible forces, I sense.

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