A collection of short stories that showed off Sabatini's range of style. There is the tragic, the scary, the hard edged, and of course the light romantic. In this collection some of the stoires are set in the twentieth century. This is a nice range of stories and sure to be a hit with any Sabatini fan.
Some quotes:
"...loved Christians as the fox loves geese."
"To thourghly avoid evil it is nescessary to be on intimate terms with it,..."
"...the second was the Demon of Perversity, one of the younger children of Pride, an insidious little fiend who keeps you amused by his drolleries what time he digs a pit for your destruction."
"And in this twentieth century world a man of individuality is like a rosebud in a bed of evil."