The Wyrde Garden: and other stories - Paperback
The Wyrde Garden: and other stories - Paperback
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by Christopher Angus McIntosh (Author)
A fly changes history by landing on the nose of an assassin, the Nordic gods eavesdrop on Sigmund Freud in a Vienna caf , Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson brave the terrors of an English garden full of demonic entities ("Elementals, my dear Watson"). These are some of the themes of this compelling collection of stories of the mythical, the magical and the macabre.
Author Biography
Christopher McIntosh is a versatile writer of both fiction and non-fiction. Earlier in his life he worked in publishing in London and subsequently for the United Nations in New York and UNESCO in Hamburg, and has travelled throughout the world. He was for several years on the faculty of the Centre for the Study of Esotericism at Exeter University. He lives in Bremen, Germany. His non-fiction books include The Swan King: Ludwig II of Bavaria (revised edition, London, I. B. Tauris, 2012); The Rose Cross and the Age of Reason (latest edition, Albany NY: SUNY Press, 2011); Gardens of the Gods (London, I. B. Tauris, 2005); The Rosicrucians (latest edition, Newburyport MA: Red Wheel/Weiser, 1997); and Eliphas Lévi and the French Occult Revival (latest edition, Albany NY: SUNY Press, 2011). His fictional work, apart from the present work, includes the novel Return of the Tetrad (Mandrake of Oxford, 2013) and an earlier collection of stories, Master of the Starlit Grove (Vanadis Texts, 2014).
