This collection of three short stories features as its centrepiece a Gothic city named Marcheval and the book is sheer fantastic Gothic splendour, with Splashes of Fantasy. Marcheval has elements of the modern and many more elements of the past, of slums and unscrupulous chaps and great fortunes gone to rot. It is atmospheric of a time while being out of time and has a grand sense of place. The windy streets and fantastical elements (including strange and new fantasy variants on human
Published on April 24, 2015 11:15