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Nocturnal Mirrors

Richard Gavin

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“Something foul is knocking at the door to our world.”

A grand marble staircase prowls the night in search of passengers, Hidden Mothers whisper tales of the Wild Hunt to children carved from wood, a man is gifted candles whose flames do not dispel shadows but lure them . . . and that which lurks beyond. Such are the shapes of Otherness reflected in Nocturnal Mirrors. Across thirteen stories, Richard Gavin conjures liminal realms where the familiar is transformed by spectral and chthonic forces. Drawing upon the literary traditions of the Gothic, fin de siècle Decadence, and Surrealism, Nocturnal Mirrors gives form to the author’s conviction that our world is most vitally experienced when it is viewed through a glass darkly.

Hardback edition limited to 350 copies.
Signed by the author.

Cover art by Morgan Sorensen

ISBN: 978-1-78380-058-2 (hbk)

Contents

“Banquets of Embertide”
“Flagstone Clothes”
“Molly on the Stairhead”
“The Intercessor”
“Crinoline Eyrie”
“Prowling Through Throated Chambers”
“Honeymoon in Burning Bedlam”
“Stray Gates”
“A Place of Courtship”
“Lady Esmé’s Chandler”
“Upon an Iron Bed, Under the Eyes of Chaos”
“Four Stages of Alchemy”
“Tabula Rasa”
“Afterword: Honouring the Shadowland”

“Sources”
“Acknowledgements”
“About the Author”

Richard Gavin

Richard Gavin has authored numerous collections of supernatural horror fiction, including Grotesquerie (2020), Sylvan Dread: Tales of Pastoral Darkness (2016), and At Fear’s Altar (2012). His volumes of esotericism include The Benighted Path: Primeval Gnosis and the Monstrous Soul (2015) and The Infernal Masque (2022). He lives in Ontario, Canada

Nocturnal Mirrors by Richard Gavin; cover art by Morgan Sorensen; cover design by Meggan Kehrli; edited by Brian J. Showers; copyedited by Jim Rockhill; typeset by Steve J. Shaw; published by Swan River Press at Æon House.

First Hardback Edition: Published on 30 June 2026; limited to 350 copies of which 100 were embossed and hand numbered; signed by Richard Gavin; dust jacketed; illustrated cloth-printed boards; endpapers (WBN580 Amethyst); 217 pages; lithographically printed on 80 gsm cream paper; sewn binding; head- and tail-bands (Winterband 999 solid black); printed by CPI Antony Rowe, Chippenham, Wiltshire; ISBN: 978-1-78380-058-2.