Masques and Citadels: More Tales of the Connoisseur
Sewn hardback printed and bound by Bath Press in red wibalin cloth stamped in gold, with head and tailbands. 300 copies.
Contents:
- The Hesperian Dragon
- The Lighting of the Vial
- The Nephoseum, or, The Play of Shadows
- Sea Citadels
- The Prince of Barlocco
- The Black Eros
- Mad Lutanist
- The Mist on the Mere
- The White Solander (with John Howard)
- The Last Archipelago (with John Howard)
Mark Valentine
Mark Valentine is an English author, biographer and editor.
Valentine’s short stories have been published by a number of small presses and in anthologies since the 1980s, and the exploits of his series character, "The Connoisseur", an occult detective, were published as The Collected Connoisseur in 2010.
As a biographer, Valentine has published a life of Arthur Machen in 1985 (Seren Press), and a study of Sarban, Time, A Falconer (Tartarus Press), is published in 2010. He has also written numerous articles for the Book and Magazine Collector magazine, and introductions for various books, including editions of work by Walter de la Mare, Robert Louis Stevenson, Saki, J. Meade Falkner and others.
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