<p>A lost manuscript from the pen of obscure Scots-Irish writer Martin Caulder recently come to light. </p><p>A pseudonymous work for the Olympia Press in Paris in the 1960s. </p><p>A mysterious packet of papers from the 1920s. </p><p>A Strange Case from the 1890s in <em>fin de siècle </em>Paris. </p><p>William Crowe and Stephen Devlin Irish exiles and students of the Occult have made a dangerous wager: who shall be the first to woo young Thomas MacGilpatrick a Jesuit novice away from the Church and his vocation?</p><p>The Path of Initiation into the Mysteries? Or the Path of Ecstasy and the Wild?</p><p>Our two Devil's Advocates play a game of smoke and mirrors Tarot-Chess Kabbalistic Backgammon working like artisans to win that single tender valuable soul. </p><p>Through the dark streets and into the cabarets and crypts of a gaslit Night-town Paris we are led a merry <em>danse macabre</em> and stray with Doubtful Thomas through the labyrinth of that Unreal City. </p><p>A chilling tale of decadence and delirium to quicken even the deadest darkest heart ...</p>