'What is the machine that Mr Caulkiss is constructing in his laboratory?
'Who are the 'Little Ones' that Craylene Caulkiss is feeding in the cellar?
'What is the purpose of the Box of Tools?
'Why does Mr Scrab live under a grating in the back yard?
'Why does Melestrina Quode keep talking about 'the Great Return'?
'What makes a pair of underpants go scurrying across the floor?
'And who is the Vicar of Morbing Vyle?'
Source: Author's website.
The Black Crusade
Mount Waverley
:
Chimaera Publications
,
2004
Z1123227
2004
single work
novel
horror
fantasy
This darkly comic story takes place in 1894, 'and tells of a Hungarian bank clerk, Basil Smorta, who falls hopelessly in lust with Volusia, aka 'the Australian Songbird'. He follows her across Europe in company with a group of Fundamental Darwinists led by Lord Malicide Sain. They pursue their 'Black Crusade' at first by cart and carriage, then in Ingel Brankel's Mobilator. One bizarre and gruesome adventure follows another. The Ordeal of the Five Senses in the monks' lavabo, the excruciating apotheosis of Brother Dragorian, the doting love of the Love-Vampires, the bomb-throwing police force of Orblast, the sleep-tranced villagers in Morbol Villica and the sarcophagus of the Great One, the legendary marquis himself.'
Source: Author website http://www.richardharland.net/ (Sighted 07/01/2010)
