The Sulfuro Bhangarh Manuscripts

by Thomas Curtis

Overview

In 1809 on a malign and gloomy Indian Ocean the slave galleon Sulfuro is inexplicably destroyed by fire.
60 years later, the British trading vessel Bhangarh disappears without trace in the same location.
Only one crewmember from each tragedy survives to warn the world of the terrifying events that transpired. But their depositions are lost upon an apathetic public and soon fade into the mists of history. It is only in 1936 when Nazi Germany takes an interest in the Sulfuro Bhangarh manuscripts, that occult anthropologist Richard Marsh decides to investigate. By piecing together the disparate threads of the story he begins to unearth evidence of a dark and ancient conspiracy whose ultimate aim is nothing less than the end of civilisation.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940011528491
Publisher:	Thomas Curtis
Publication date:	09/21/2011
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	385 KB

About the Author

The genesis of 'The Sulfuro Bhangarh Manuscripts' occurred during a night-time flight over the Mediterranean in September 2007. Looking from the cabin window I saw a tiny, shimmering atoll lost amid the vast emptiness of ocean and fancied that whatever joy or misery was occurring there was completely self contained; unbeholden to the outside world; set apart from the tenets of civilisation. Obviously in our digital age this was more reverie than truth but it has not always been so. And as we all know, even today there are dark corners of the world where reason holds no sway. I have always felt a great affection for island tales, from the adventures of Jim Hawkins and the psychosis of Dr Moreau to the primal regression of Jack Merridew, and this is my homage to the genre. The magnificent isolation that a land apart affords the writer is an opportunity like no other; a chance to create a self contained world where ones protagonist is forced to face what we all fear the most - ourselves.

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