Tales of Telguuth
Steve Moore
168pp / 210mm x 148mm
7 black & white illustrations
Limited edition hardback of 300
Hardback
£25.00
Fully illustrated by Conny Prantera.
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In this collection, each word burning as though dipped in flaming brandy, we are issued with a unique passport to a world bedizened not with gems but with beads of exotic venom, a hallucinated land of perverse wonder, now forever lost among the sedate lanes and closes crowning Shooters Hill.
— Alan Moore
To the perplexity of the astromancers gathered thereabouts, no explanation could be offered for the sudden fulguration that splintered a cloudless nocturnal sky above the ancient city of marmoreal, melancholic Bok; still less was it apparent why the lightning should have struck what appeared to be nothing more than an antique basalt slab cemented to a courtyard wall within the palace grounds.
— From ‘Regrettable Denouements’.
The collected chapbooks of these bawdy, drippingly decadent fantasy tales from the author of the acclaimed Somnium.
Strange Attractor are proud to present this unique anthology of the late Steve Moore's privately-publshed fantasy stories, which combine the dark cosmologies of Clark Ashton Smith, with Charles Baudelaire's sensual malevolence and Robert E. Howard's mytho-poetic barbarism.
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About the author
Until his death in 2014, Steve Moore wrote comic books, novels and nonfiction, including his study of the I-Ching, The Trigrams of Han, his critically acclaimed novel, Somnium, and the posthumous collection of short fantasy stories, Tales of Telguuth. He also had a long-standing editorial connection with Fortean Studies and Fortean Times, to which he was a frequent contributor from their inception.
