John Sandbach

The Azoth Quartet

Azoth

John Sandbach · Quartet 1

The young girl Linira becomes lost in a maze where she meets Magrena, who tells her of her journey with the alluringly handsome and obsessed alchemist Israak to the Isle of Azoth. (He’s gorgeous at 92, but that’s how it is when you’re immortal.) There in the desolate wastes of ice they create a whole world, and that world’s crowning glory — the homunculus Azorma, who, they eventually learn, has been born infected with Israak’s deepest and darkest desires.

A hallucinatory journey of alchemy, ritual, Kabalah, mysteries and secrets, with special thanks to Alexander Scriabin, William Blake, John Milton, Richard Wagner, Gertrude Stein, Aitchpy Lovecraft, and Urimu, the blue princess of u*imbEljE. Come with us and lose yourself in the maze for awhile.

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