Book Details
Format
Hardcover
Pages
94
Language
English
Published
Feb 1, 2013
Publisher
Ex Occidente Press (Les Editions de L'Oubli)
Description
O Altitudo is a hardcover book of 100 pages with illustrated endpapers, a full-colour frontispiece and a dust-jacket. Edition limited to 100 copies.
“I love to lose my selfe in a mystery; to pursue my reason to an O altitudo.”
― Sir Thomas Browne.
O Altitudo offers the reader four encounters with the strange, the wondrous, and the uncanny: an urban explorer peregrinates the psychotopography of Copenhagen; a failed seeker of mysteries comes upon ‘spots of evil’ which open new vistas of reality; in the spring of 1938 an old Austrian refugee from the horrors in utero arrives in Denmark, carrying the blazing light of the past; and the final story explores the idea, expressed by
the Reverend Montague Summers, ‘that evil may attach itself to possessions’ …
Contents
I. In Search of the Hidden City
II. The Auwisnat Transfigurations
III. The Émigré Emperor
IV. The Furnished Room
“I love to lose my selfe in a mystery; to pursue my reason to an O altitudo.”
― Sir Thomas Browne.
O Altitudo offers the reader four encounters with the strange, the wondrous, and the uncanny: an urban explorer peregrinates the psychotopography of Copenhagen; a failed seeker of mysteries comes upon ‘spots of evil’ which open new vistas of reality; in the spring of 1938 an old Austrian refugee from the horrors in utero arrives in Denmark, carrying the blazing light of the past; and the final story explores the idea, expressed by
the Reverend Montague Summers, ‘that evil may attach itself to possessions’ …
Contents
I. In Search of the Hidden City
II. The Auwisnat Transfigurations
III. The Émigré Emperor
IV. The Furnished Room