![]() This 1922 edition has essentially the same narration, but ruthlessly pruned and compacted. The plot contains love, murder, and political intrigue, but most importantly the supernatural battle between good and evil.”įirst published in 1909 as Black Magic, A Tale of the Rise and Fall of the Antichrist. This woodcutter is a student of black magic and we follow his journey to riches and power as he follows the devil’s teachings. ![]() ![]() The tale opens with the scene of a lowly woodworker putting gilt onto a carving of the devil in a small town in Northern France. “… an atmospheric and engaging story set in Europe during the middle-ages, in a time when noble families battled it out for the title of Emperor and the Pope wielded enormous political power. This one explores the influence of Satanism on the Papacy in the Middle Ages. ![]() Many of Bowen’s novels are concerned with the supernatural, ghostly, moody, and Gothically dramatic. ![]()
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