Mysterium

"The main source of learning was procured through rummaging rubbish and scouring nearby villages or the outskirts of the larger towns for anything to read: loose pages from books, maps, discarded designs or plans, almanacs, instruction pamphlets, anything I could find, in any language. Above all I searched for wholly intact books since they held a special fascination for me beyond mere education, entertainment or possession and beyond the need to consume a conscripted and stored esculent time. A book resting on top of a table, an open book, greatly affected me, for although it occupied only a small space on the table, the space it engaged was limitless. To me, the infinite exploded at their edges."

So starts this incredible long novella of the Fantastic and the Beyond by Andrew Condous. Published as a large landscape format book, with illustrations by the late great Carel Willink, MYSTERIUM: MASTERPIECE OF THE UNKNOWN will, no doubt, be hailed, as an unique Work of the Weird Literature. The entire book reads like a lost, forgotten novella written by Bruno Schulz or Thomas Ligotti. There is a certain fragrance which come with certains literary texts. The fragrance of MYSTERIUM: MASTERPIECE OF THE UNKNOWN is that of Spring and cobbled streets, foreign towns and old books and the scent of Horror and kaleidoscope dreams.