Ancient rituals, hidden histories and encounters with the genius loci; a crumbling Scottish castle and an unhappy young woman whose relationship with a ghost bears strange and unexpected fruit; shades of Edgar Allan Poe and Clark Ashton Smith in the wilds of Derbyshire's Peak District; a private island off the coast of Sicily, owned by a mad folly-building aesthete duke, where layers of illusion are successively peeled away until the very nature of reality itself becomes the question (the fantastically abstract dustjacket by Donald Green is the icing on the cake of this hypnotic, discombobulating extravaganza). Just a few of my recent literary escapes as the days grow colder and darker... #thepaleilluminations #sarobpress #peterbell #markvalentine #reggieoliver #derekjohn #ferelith #victoralexandersereldhay #lordkilmarnock #nodensbooks #rmurraygilchrist #wordswortheditions #angusheriot #cassell #donaldgreen #firstedition #dustjacketart #modernfirsteditions #smallpress #mystery #supernatural #ghoststories #horror #folklore #thehiddenplaces #books #bookstagram #bibliophilia #autumnevenings #recentreading https://www.instagram.com/p/B3-JF6nnE8K/?igshid=1b7nw8bs17p65
