ABYSS by R. Paul Sardanas and Iason Ragnar Bellerophon
ABYSS
by R. Paul Sardanas and Iason Ragnar Bellerophon
Publisher: Gromagon Press and Tetragrammatron Press
267 pages
Special Art Edition
Paperback
Book dimensions: 6 x 9
$30 (plus $5 shipping)
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In Victorian London, Dr. James Wilder is drawn into a secret society that engages in powerful rituals of sex and death. The Gnostic Archons have mastered techniques that result in extended life, and the cult's leader, the charismatic “archdemoness” Ruha, has further plans of her own to create a dominant figure within the Gnostic cult: a Primal Man.
Ruha's daughter, a sophisticated albino outlaw named Grace X, opposes these designs, and the two women become locked in a bloody conflict for control of the Archons. Caught in the midst of this secret war, Dr. Wilder is ravaged, body and soul.
Successful in her revolution to overthrow the Archons, Grace leads an expedition to the sanctuary of the Archon cult, in Central Africa. Instead of ushering these ancient powers into the Age of Reason, disaster overtakes the expedition, which is consumed in a frenzied orgy of death and transformation. By the story's end, Wilder will become Talos, an embodiment of violent lust that will soon cast its shadow across London, and history.
This special edition of Abyss is composed entirely of full color scans of the raw paintings and paint-spattered texts that comprise the original manuscript of the book. It is like reading a secret document, exhumed from a dark and mysterious past.
R. Paul Sardanas is an acclaimed author and poet, nominated ten times for the Rhysling Award for Best Speculative Poetry. Iason Ragnar Bellerophon's award-winning work has been displayed in American galleries for decades, and has been described as powerful, primal, and transcendent.