Short but powerful, this neo-gothic novel, which is illustrated by Harry O. Morris, uses the crisp immediacy of the present tense to lead the reader on a hallucinatory journey from humanity to inhuman transcendence. After a miraculous recovery from near death, a young man known only as the Divini...
You were, prior to that first breath, slashed and rifled, as gravity had been permitted by some agency to draw your pages to earth. You were always remote from earth but all the same still as connected to it as breath, for example, is to earth. That was you then, that emer...