ASIN: B09ZPMT5ZY
Publisher: Masque Publishing
Pages: 288
When Oscar Wilde answers an urgent summons to the British Museum Reading Room, he finds his friend, Arthur Conan Doyle, in a state of profound agitation.The Scots author has discovered a mysterious Casebook #5 entitled: The Faerie Vortex. The Casebook contains a highly fantastical story about a trip the two authors made to the seaside town of Darvington in response to a letter from a woman who claims her daughters had been abducted by faeries. Although the trip took place a year ago, neither man has any memory of the journey, although proof has been pasted into the Casebook in the form of cancelled train tickets, a photograph of a little girls’ picnic (complete with faery visitors), and even a time-yellowed map of the lost village of Wyrme-Hallow.But most worrying of all is the front page clipping of the Darvington newspaper describing Wilde’s arrest for the suspected abduction and ...
