The Satyr & Other Tales

It was the straying that found the path direct. - Austin Osman SpareIn the final throes of the Blitz Austin Osman Spare is the only salvation for Marlene an artist escaping a traumatic past. Wandering Southwarks ruins she encounters Paddy Hughes a fugitive of another kind. Falling under Marlenes spell Hughes agrees to seek out her lost mentor the man she calls The Satyr. Yet Marlenes past will not rest as the mysterious Doctor Charnock pursues them trying to capture the patient shed once caged. The Satyr is a tale inspired by the life and ethos of sorcerer and artist Austin Osman Spare.Another three novellas of occult enchantment follow: a bookseller discovers that his late wife knew the Devil in the Carpathian Mountains refugees shelter in a museum devoted to a forgotten author and in Prague a portraitist must paint a countess whose appearance is never the same twice. This omnibus is comprised of The Satyr (2010) and The Bestiary of Communion (2011); newly illustrated expanded and revised.