The Assassins (Fantasy and Horror Classics)

<p><strong>In a sublime valley hidden from the world a community of zealots trains for a singular chilling purpose: assassination.</strong></p><p>High in the remote mountains of Syria lies the Valley of the Assassins a hidden community living in perfect seclusion and governed by radical virtue. To the world they are a secret cult of murderers; to themselves they are the sole guardians of a higher ethical truth.</p><p>Shelley's visionary prose explores the terrifying question at the heart of their society: Can the execution of a single tyrant the most horrific act imaginable be justified as a selfless duty necessary to save thousands and usher in a utopian age of peace?</p><p>From the master of Romantic verse comes a mesmerizing prose fragment that weaves Gothic atmosphere with a radical political vision.</p>