- Title: THE UNCERTAINTY OF ALL EARTHLY THINGS (Limited Edition)
- Author: Mark VALENTINE
- Publisher: Tartarus Press
- Published: 2025
- Edition: First Limited
- Ref: 15727
About The Book
This is a first UK limited edition hardback (limited to 350 copies only). Beautiful boards. Unread.
Having originally been published by Zagava in 2018 this new edition includes all of the short stories in the original Zagava volume, and adds nine briefer stories or vignettes written around the same time. All the stories were originally selected for anthologies or journals and were written around 2013-2017.
SYNOPSIS: “The Uncertainty of All Earthly Things contains stories about the ancient mysteries of Palmyra and Jerusalem, the music of Stonehenge and of the fabulously rare record Goat Songs, the uncanny in performances of Milton’s Comus and Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale, and the wondrous influences of a Sancreed Tarot and of a toy cockatrice.
THE STORIES ARE: *To the Eternal One, *Stained Medium, *The Key to Jerusalem, *Bellman’s Map, *Listening to Stonehenge, *Hark to the Rooks, *Goat Songs, *Mr Bel’s Shop, *Zabulo, *The Secret Characters, *In Cypress Shades, *The Mask of the Dead Mammilius, *Yes, I Knew the Venusian Commodore, *Qx, *The Scarlet Door, *The Clerks of the Invisible, *Vain Shadows Flee, *The Man Who Made the Yellow God, *The Uncertainty of All Earthly Things, *Moss Queen, *As Blank As the Days Yet To B.”
Packed weight 890gms. IN STOCK READY FOR DESPATCH