The Inhuman Ladder
(By Karim Ghahwagi)
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In "Codex of Light," the initiation ceremony commemorating a young woman’s transition into adulthood reveals a secret metaphysical history equally kindled by seemingly benign light and restless shadow. In "Children of the Crimson Sun", the Catholic Church assigns a Spanish medic of the Hospitaller Knights of Malta to investigate a child purporting to speak a new Gospel of Light. In "The Sorrows of Satan’s Book," a widowed film scholar searching for a lost Carl Dreyer screenplay along the northern Danish coast of Jutland, is confronted with a metaphysical mystery and murder in the heart of the Scandinavian midsummer. In "A Haunting in Miniature," a village in the Moravian region of the Czech Republic is shaken by a series of ghostly visitations. In "Horrill Hill," hunters become the haunted in a rudderless American dystopia seemingly engulfed by endless night. In "The Liminal Void," the ghosts of three martyred women inhabiting a single body, are assigned by their collapsing Kratocratic pagan regime to investigate a crime against humanity in a secluded village stationed at the end of time.
Appearing for the first time in this volume is also a twenty-five thousand word novella entitled: "An Invitation to a Conjuring," which concerns a lapsed psychiatrist’s investigation of a children’s retreat in the Austrian mountains in 1936.
The wounds of time mark our minds and bodies with cartographies of experience both real and imagined.”
