Devil's Tor

<p>Ingrid Fleming has always believed a goddess lies buried beneath the forbidding Devil-headed rock-pile atop Devil’s Tor. But when the pile is shattered in a sudden storm it’s her cousin Hugh Drapier who enters the newly-revealed tomb.</p><p>Drapier has recently arrived from Tibet where an encounter with the adventurer Henry Saltfleet and the archeologist Stephen Arsinal has left him in possession of a stolen sacred stone the half of a broken whole which has the power to induce visions of its arrival on Earth in the early days of primitive humanity.</p><p>Arsinal believes the stone to be sacred to the Great Mother and key to a prophecy that will unite a chosen man and woman and bring about the birth of a new saviour. He and Saltfleet return to England on Drapier’s trail and arrive in Dartmoor just as the machinery of a thousands-year-long supernatural fate begins its final turn…</p><p>A troubled troubling ambitious and difficult work that David Lindsay himself called his “monster” <strong>Devil’s Tor</strong> answers the imaginative pyrotechnics of Lindsay’s first novel <strong>A Voyage to Arcturus</strong> with a sustained maturity of insight into the intensely-felt and deeply-examined inner lives of its handful of characters and the fate that has brought them together at the dawn of a new human era.</p><p>At times irrecoverably tangled in the attitudes of its day <strong>Devil’s Tor</strong> nevertheless builds to a transcendent final vision of the ultimate purpose of human life and suffering.</p>