The Madonna of Shadows and DarknessThe strange book of Enoch, the potion of Circe, and the sonnets of Shakespeare all herald the return of an ancient evil, and Father Sam Stone, an Anglican priest and recovering alcoholic, finds himself called in to investigate a supposed case of reincarnation, but finds himself confronting an evil being from the depths of time. He must turn private detective in order to save a young girls sanity and discover the nature of the supernatural threat. |
Contents
| 1 | |
| 10 | |
CHAPTER THREE | 30 |
CHAPTER FOUR | 44 |
CHAPTER FIVE | 50 |
CHAPTER SIX | 61 |
CHAPTER SEVEN | 66 |
CHAPTER EIGHT | 73 |
CHAPTER TWELVE | 134 |
CHAPTER THIRTEEN | 141 |
CHAPTER FOURTEEN | 153 |
CHAPTER FIFTEEN | 163 |
CHAPTER SIXTEEN | 175 |
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN | 184 |
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN | 201 |
COMMENTS | 211 |
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Page 78 - HOW oft, when thou, my music, music play'st, Upon that blessed wood whose motion sounds With thy sweet fingers, when thou gently sway'st The wiry concord that mine ear confounds, Do I envy those jacks that nimble leap To kiss the tender inward of thy hand, Whilst my poor lips, which should that harvest reap, At the wood's boldness by thee blushing stand!
Page 107 - Two loves I have of comfort and despair, Which like two spirits do suggest me still: The better angel is a man right fair, The worser spirit a woman colour'd ill. To win me soon to hell, my female evil Tempteth my better angel from my side, And would corrupt my saint to be a devil, Wooing his purity with her foul pride.
Page 128 - My reason, the physician to my love, Angry that his prescriptions are not kept, Hath left me, and I desperate now approve Desire is death, which physic did except. Past cure I am, now reason is past care, And...
Page 63 - There were giants in the earth in those days ; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
Page 108 - And whether that my angel be turn'd fiend Suspect I may, yet not directly tell; But being both from me, both to each friend, I guess one angel in another's hell: Yet this shall I ne'er know, but live in doubt, Till my bad angel fire my good one out.
Page 130 - Past reason hated, as a swallow'd bait, On purpose laid to make the taker mad: Mad in pursuit, and in possession so; Had, having, and in quest to have, extreme; A bliss in proof, — and prov'd, a very woe; Before, a joy propos'd; behind, a dream. All this the world well knows; yet none knows well To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell. cxxx MY mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips...
Page 62 - And now, the giants, who are produced from the spirits and flesh, shall be called evil spirits upon the earth, and on the earth shall be their dwelling.
Page 62 - And I looked at them and saw, and behold they all let out their privy members, like horses, and began to cover the cows of the oxen, and they all became pregnant and bare elephants, camels and asses.