Shalat
Shalat is the unholy offspring of Mörk Borg, Knightfall, Tales from a Thousand and One Nights, and the Ars Goetia. A pitch-black epic medieval occult fantasy; a genre-defying descent into blood, war and magick.
Although primarily a work of fiction – a compulsively readable page-turner – it contains many layers of symbolism. The novel weaves a new mythos, drawing on traditions of Kabbalah and Islamic occultism, Goetia, Luciferianism and Dark Gnosticism. Full of scholarship and visionary insights, it is also an initiatory journey. For those who wish to seek a deeper meaning to the narrative, each of the 78 chapters is assigned a corresponding tarot card.
Shalat deals with themes of mastery and servitude; personal sacrifice; the desire for freedom and control through power; the generational legacy of pacts; the gnostic impulse; the web of fate; the tides of creation and destruction, and the exchange of influences between the worlds.
An incomparable mix of highbrow and lowbrow, sacred and profane, esoteric and exoteric, Shalat is epic blackened medieval occult fiction at its very best.
This Damnati edition is limited to 23 hand-numbered copies and includes four exclusive art prints from renowned illustrators, each depicting scenes and characters from the book. The artists are: Arik Roper, Benjamin A. Vierling, David V. D’Andrea and Joshua Andrew Belanger. Each copy is also signed by the author.
The book is 408 pages, printed on 90gsm cream book-wove, case-bound in black book cloth with a crimson hand-foiled front cover and spine, red and black headbands, black endpapers and a red ribbon. This is a heavy book and its weight is reflected in the shipping costs, which we have nevertheless tried to keep as low as possible.
£27.95
