Abstract:
Author J.W. Jessup begins his grisly novel of the occult with a faux biography of lilim Chaim Alhazred. Lilim are demon offspring of Lilith the biblical Adams first wife. It is the year A.D. 641. IN STATIONE SUM, a global sect of occult scholars has attacked Alexandria Egypt and the lighthouse, Pharos. The novels tortured soul writes in the first person of his, growing pains in the Red Sea, the lessons in the school of alchemy and the final transformation into the infamous lilim. The Colossus of Rhodes is a peculiar amalgam of alternate reality, gothic eroticism and high drama: