VOTIVE OFFERINGS. Stories by Mark Valentine, John Howard, Peter Bell & Colin Insole.
Neuilly-le-Vendin, France: Sarob Press, 2026. First Edition (& 1st printing). Octavo, original brown cloth stamped in silver on spine and front panel, silver headbands and silk bookmarker, decorated endpapers. 117 pp. Issued in a limited edition of only 345 hand-numbered copies. Dust Jacket artwork by Paul Lowe. A fine copy in a fine wrap-around colour pictorial dust jacket, as issued. Item #314471
¶ Four ‘all new’ long stories (or novelettes) imbued with the mystery and otherworldliness of place and of landscape – strange, secret, mystical and ancient.
In “Roman Masks” by Mark Valentine art college teachers and their students in north west England invoke, through strange ritual, ancient gods and terrible dark forces at a coastal temple ruin.
John Howard’s weirdly enigmatic “Desire Path” takes the unwary reader along pathways long forgotten and thought lost ~ but what if you could walk along ways that no longer exist?
“Figures in a Landscape” by Peter Bell finds its heroine seeking a lost (or possibly mythic) Welsh hill figure and discovering the seemingly harmless to be anything but.
Colin Insole’s “The April Rainers” is a tale of the re-emergence of something old, powerful and malevolent, and the story of the centuries-old fellowship pledged to protect the land and keep it safe from the terror.
Price (CAD): $95.00