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 33
Subterfuge
I stopped beneath the Gothic arch of the heavy iron-clad doors, standing alone.
My hand tightened around the black shaft of Victor’s scorpion cane as I watched the flickering of the light in his great hall: the double row of hollow suits of armor haunted by the glow of the chandeliers; the roaring Hellmouth hearth at the far end of the cavernous room, silhouetting the row of students in their high-backed chairs as they faced away from me, toward Victor’s empty throne.
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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