Chomu Press has released Brendan Connell’s collection of short fiction, The Life of Polycrates and Other Stories For Antiquated Children in paperback with a suggested retail price of $14.

Description: Turn these pages and let the sins and manias of human history pass in exquisite raiment before you. Heading the procession, The Life of Polycrates describes the rise to power of the ancient Greek ruler, his eccentric deeds and the fantastic personalities around him. And in the train of this novella witness a bacchanal of philanderers—a medieval holy man—a motorcycle dare-devil—and aesthetes of rarefied sensibility. This is a book of bizarre histories and cerebral studies that explores the darkest passages of the human heart and brightest depravities of the human mind.

Myth and imagination are confronted with historical precision in Brendan Connell’s newest collection of short fiction, bringing together a number of stories previously published in journals and anthologies as well as never before published material that includes the novella ‘The Life of Polycrates,’ describing the rise to power of the ancient Greek ruler, his eccentric deeds and the fantastic personalities around him. This is a book of bizarre histories and cerebral studies that explores the darkest passages of the human heart and brightest depravities of the human mind.

Contents

  1. The Life of Polycrates
  2. Collapsing Claude
  3. The Dancing Billionaire
  4. Brother of the Holy Ghost
  5. Maledict Michela
  6. The Life of Captain Gareth Caernarvon
  7. Molten Rage
  8. The Chymical Wedding of Des Esseintes
  9. The Search for Savino
  10. The Slug
  11. Peter Payne

Order from Amazon here: The Life of Polycrates

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