3.5 out of 5 stars

The publisher provided a copy of this free of charge in return for an honest review.

It is evening when a man arrives in Turin on the banks of the Po. The sky is aflame as he finds a table and settles in for dinner. When he is eating his mediocre steak, he is approached by a man with a booming voice who announces that he will be attending the same conference as him. He pauses for a moment, wondering whether to deny it, but he knows he will run into him again soon enough. He says that he also studies the Devil and all of his works too, and will see him there.

This Demonology conference was going to be utterly devoid of joy until he meets Countess Pozzi…

So beings one of the shortest and strangest tales that I have read in a while. This stranger is a researcher of the Extraordinary and he is there to discover the unbelievable. This book is a mere 50 pages long, the same length as I normally give a book before deciding whether or not to continue, so this isn’t going to be a review as such as almost everything would be a spoiler. Rather this a recommendation to read this tautly written story and be amazed just how much can be squeezed into these 50 pages.

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