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 40
“Of all my crimes, my one true sin”
The old vellum of Victor’s self-inscribed book crackled softly as I turned the page, but there was no more for me to read: there the English ended, and the Italianate language resumed, its vocabulary and structure obscure to me. I imagined it must have been Neapolitan—hadn’t he written that he spoke Neapolitan to his tenant and rival courtier Iacomo, while the latter preferred to speak Angevin French?—yet if this solved one small mystery, it introduced a greater one.
I knew something of the history of the Continent. The French House of Anjou had last ruled Naples centuries ago. Some four hundred years, if I was not mistaken.
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- 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