The Book of Flowering

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A Fairy Tale by Arthur Wardle (1864-1949) [Source: Victorianweb.org]

But the most pleasing of the things at the Queen’s palace is the Queen’s garden: be-walled it is and reached by three hundred onyx steps, with admittance via a locked and fragrant gate of carven cedar, with the wood dyed to the hue of jasper: but jasper dark and mournful.


A rather late announcement, but available now from the ever-beautiful Egaeus Press is The Book of Flowering edited by Mark Beech. As with all the books published by this press, it is a wonderfully crafted production and I strongly urge anyone interested to swiftly acquire this sumptuous volume before it goes out of print, as I'm sure it will do.

My contribution is entitled 'A Garden of Sorrow and Sorcery' and it is a strange and empurpled Faerie Tale. Originally it was to form the centre piece of a different story - and still does, as a synopsis - and act as the key to that story, but unfortunately the tale grew and grew and eventually it was too long for its parent. However, work is still progressing slowly on that particular piece, a yarn set in the Duchy of Greywall...

The Book of Flowering also features work by Mark Valentine, Timothy J. Jarvis, Ron Weighell, Reggie Oliver, D.P. Watt, Colin Insole, Alison Littlewood, Charles Schneider and many other splendid authors of the peculiar.

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  1. frankacqui7 May 2019 at 08:46

    a necessary story for a must to have book. .anothere masterpiece

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    1. John Gale7 May 2019 at 20:11

      Many thanks Frank. So pleased you enjoyed it; it was a joy to be included in such a beautiful book. Thank you again for your comment and interest, both of which are greatly appreciated.

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