The Collected Connoisseur
Contents:
- Introduction by Mark Valentine
- After the Darkness
- Cafe Lucifer
- In Violet Veils
- Pale Roses
- The Craft of Arioch
- The Effigies
- The Lost Moon
- The Paravine Cries
- The Secret Stars
- Mad Lutanist
- Sea Citadels
- The Black Eros
- The Hesperian Dragon
- The Last Archipelago (with John Howard)
- The Lighting of the Vial
- The Mist on the Mere
- The Nephoseum, or, The Play of Shadows
- The Prince of Barlocco
- The White Solander (with John Howard)
- The Rite of Trebizond
- The Serpent, Unfallen
- The Temple of Time
- The Descent of the Fire (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.