Doctor D’Arco, Sorcerer of London
A dark sorcerer. His widowed apprentice. A Victorian Gothic Romance for all time. In the midnight fog of Victorian London, the young widow Elizabeth Buckingham was destitute and alone, sustained only by her vow of revenge against whoever—or whatever—caused her Egyptologist husband’s uncanny demise. Everything change...
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Chapter 28
Beneath the Stage
I wondered at that shade of trepidation I sensed in Reinhardt’s voice as I climbed carefully down the ladder, Victor’s scorpion cane held under my arm, watching rung by rung as the light through the small trapdoor above me grew more distant. Torn by my trespass, the trailing strand of a dusty cobweb brushed my neck: thus far this place seemed drier than the rest of the underground—warmer—accountable, I thought, to being situated below the gaslights of the stage. When I slowly lowered my bandaged right leg deeper into the darkness to search for the next rung, my little shoe found no step, nor the dank ground of a cavern, but some manner of wooden floor.
“I’ve reached the bottom,” I called quietly up to Reinhardt, scarcely more than a whisper. Until I understood my surroundings, I dared not risk any louder sound. The air was still, though thinner than in Victor’s lair, and it felt vaguely acrid in my throat.
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- 1. Midnight, Witch’s Corner 06:42
- 2. The Shadow in the Steel Mask 18:12
- 3. The Talisman of Thoth 34:37
- 4. An Apparition 14:25
- 5. A Circle of Ash 13:00
- 6. The Gathering of Magisophists 24:24
- 7. The Lair of Doctor D’Arco 29:49
- 8. “Misfits of misfits, outcasts of outcasts” 25:39
- 9. Disprite and Disruption 26:44
- 10. The Four Winds 21:59
- 11. The Library 20:11
- 12. The Winter Oak 34:27
- 13. The Black Knight 29:43
- 14. Magia Intrinseca 46:57
- 15. Setting Fire 35:40
- 16. The Face of Absolon 21:33
- 17. “Against all the will of the world” 34:45
- 18. The Letter and the Box 25:19
- 19. The Black Carriage 43:50
- 20. Twilight, Crystal Palace Park 21:26
- 21. The Fog of the Lake 40:49
- 22. Gremio 41:29
- 23. Revenge 36:31
- 24. Chemistry 29:16
- 25. “Think of me, and be strong” 29:45
- 26. Possession 49:53
- 27. The Marvelous Manfredini 31:00
- 28. Beneath the Stage 33:38
- 29. The Madman’s Knife 39:22
- 30. The Sorcerers’ Sepulcher 39:03
- 31. Hieroglyphics 59:47
- 32. Goldenscythe 59:55
- 33. Subterfuge 52:22
- 34. Elements 42:13
- 35. Summoning 21:41
- 36. The White Mule 43:23
- 37. The Last Chance 27:36
- 38. The Heart of a Star 29:35
- 39. The Legend of Doctor D’Arco 1:58:14
- 40. “Of all my crimes, my one true sin” 40:53
- 41. The Haunted Streets 44:58
- 42. Two Histories 52:16
- 43. “I am what I will” 42:34
- 44. The Throne of Doctor D’Arco 58:26
- 45. Time 25:50
- 46. The Masquerade 44:13
- 47. Ghosts of the Ancient Earth 1:01:05
- Epilogue 11:23