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 46
The Masquerade
And so our hours and days passed in pleasure and joy; and if that joy was altered somewhat by the bitter knowledge of the impermanence of our paradise, that color of wistful melancholy only made it all the sweeter: it made my every smile at Victor’s savage swagger, as he regaled me with promises of our impending triumph over Gremio, into a moment of effervescent evanescence; every sensual, lingering caress seemed all too brief. Stopping only to eat and drink, and to wash—once in a while for Victor to instruct Absolon on matters of needed supplies and preparations—we made love so many times and in so many ways that it became to me one long night of pleasure, both our love and our mutual desire as deep and as endless as that interminable dark night of his quiet, private world in the heart of the earth.
Our world, now.
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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