Description
In a shadowed, alternative Paris called Paradys, three intertwined novellas trace how desire, ambition, and cruelty echo through the city’s dark history. From a poet drawn into a nocturnal romance by a cursed ruby scarab, to a woman whose suffering and survival ignite a dangerous reckoning, to later lives shaped by power, obsession, and the seductive pull of forbidden beauty, each story reveals a different face of the same haunting world. Tanith Lee’s signature lyrical, gothic imagination turns love and fate into forces as volatile as magic, where beauty can wound and every choice carries a spectral consequence. Blending fantasy and horror with richly atmospheric storytelling, this collection explores themes of corruption, moral compromise, and the ways the past refuses to stay buried.
Available Editions
paperback
Overlook Press
Published Jan 1, 1991
215 pages
ISBN: 087951440X
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Details
First Published
1991
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Book of the Dead by Tanith Lee.