Virgil Burnett

A novella that is too ambitious for a short story yet falls short of a novel, A Comedy of Eros is a tale of intrigue and romance in which nothing is quite as it appears to be.

'Here are the annals of Montarnis from the Dark Ages to the present, told as a series of short stories, with that form's characteristic twist -- novel, ironic, or terrifying -- at the end. Their style is decadent, both in their careful observation of literary artifice and the expression of a strange private sensibility.' -- Thomas Pyne, The Los Ang …