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AUTHOR’S NOTE

Although this story is complete in itself, occasional passing reference is made to earlier stories in the series to which it belongs: “The Legacy of Erich Zann” (in the Perilous Press volume The Womb of Time), Valdemar’s Daughter and The Mad Trist (published as complementary halves of a Borgo/Wildside Double), The Quintessence of August and The Cthulhu Encryption (both issued as Borgo/Wildside novels). The full text of Benoît de Maillet’s Telliamed, complete with the marginal notes to the manuscript, to which Auguste Dupin has privileged access in the present story, was published in English translation by the University of Illinois Press in 1968, translated and edited by Albert V. Carozzi. The fundamental idea of the “Thierachians” featured in the plot is borrowed from Jean Richepin’s novel L’Aile (1911), translated into English as The Wing (Black Coat Press 2011), but I have embellished it considerably in equipping the imaginary nomads in question with an entire new mythology.