Necromancy of the Demon Maiden: A Gothic Tale of Podolia - Softcover

Bassman, Barak

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1948046741 ISBN 13: 9781948046749

Publisher: Telemachus Press, LLC, 2020

Synopsis

In the late 17th-century, in Turkish-occupied southern Poland, a kabbalist faces vicious persecution from his fellow Jews because of his secret adherence to the teachings and practices of the disgraced false messiah, Sabbatai Zevi. Forced to take refuge with a dreamy and unstable Polish count in a nearby castle, the Jewish mystic is soon forced to summon a demon maiden to fulfill the aristocrat’s yearnings for a woman with whom to live out his fantasies of walking amongst the goddesses and queens of the ancient world. But the noble lord and his reluctant necromancer quickly lose control of the demon bride–with horrific and bloody consequences.Blending themes from heretical and messianic strains of Jewish mysticism and Gothic fiction of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Necromancy of the Demon Maiden: A Gothic Tale of Podolia is a meditation upon the temptations of fantasy and magic and the longing to find vestiges of divine goodness scattered and trapped in places of darkness.

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About the Author

Barak A. Bassman received a B.A. in Classics from Grinnell College and a law degree from the New York University School of Law. He practices law in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and lives in the Philadelphia suburbs with his wife and two children. He is the author of Elegy of the Minotaur, Repentance: A Tale of Demons in Old Jewish Poland, King Solomon and Ashmedai: A Wisdom Tale, The Twilight of the Magical Siren: A Tale of Late Antiquity, The Leper Princess and the The Court Jew, The Last Confession of Joseph della Reina and The Gifts of the Fairy Melusine.

Edition details

• Publisher: Telemachus Press, LLC
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1948046741
• ISBN 13: 9781948046749
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96