The Phantasmagoria
Beneath an abandoned Capuchin convent near the Place Vendôme, the showman Étienne-Gaspard Robertson wheeled his Fantoscope through the smoke and raised the dead for a paying crowd. A few vaults further down, by the light of a bone-kiln oven, someone was quietly milling flour. Pull up a pew. The lantern is warming.
The Lantern Anthology
Plate IThe Abbey AbovePlate forthcoming
The Abbey AboveAbove us, the abbey stands gutted and dark. Below, the millstones wake.
EpisodesBroadcast forthcoming. Rehearsal plates on the lantern.
Midnight milling beneath a desecrated royal abbey: white dust sifted by the green glow of phosphor moss, while boots patter somewhere in the ossuary corridors.
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