The Truths of Darkness

Brian Stableford

Simon Cannick, with the dubious assistance of possible extraterrestrial influence, seems to have largely recovered from his temporary death, his peculiar and continual lapses into dreamspace notwithstanding. However, fate, like the neider, is hydra-formed. Douglas Jefferson is willing to play dirty in the long game of inheritance and the longer game of resentment; Simon’s half-sister, Marianne, and her unruly female descendants arrive at St. Madoc en masse and prove far from gentle in their attempts to unearth family secrets; and now Rome wishes to speak to Simon, too, or at least one Father Thomas Mallory, of the Order of Preachers, who might have some interesting information to share, if Simon is willing to disclose what he knows in return.

The third and concluding installment in the cosmic labyrinth of Brian Stableford’s Morgan’s Fork series offers no easy answers. Instead, Simon Cannick is drawn, almost against his will, into a tenebrous enlightenment, guided only by the dreaming, alien voices of The Truths of Darkness.

About the Author
Brian Stableford has been writing for fifty years. His fiction includes include eleven novels and seven short story collections in a series of “tales of the biotech revolution”; a series of metaphysical fantasies set in Paris in the 1840s, featuring Edgar Poe’s Auguste Dupin, most recently Yesterday Never Dies (2012); and a series of supernatural mysteries set in an artist’s colony, most recently The Pool of Mnemosyne (2018). Recent novels independent of any series include Vampires of Atlantis (2016) and The Tangled Web of Time (2016). He also translates antique works from the French, with particular interests in the Symbolist and Decadent Movements, roman scientifique and the fantastique.

Paperback, 372 pages
Release date, August 5, 2019
USA: $22.00