Read about the most dangerous man in the West; the poem written by a stuffed crocodile; the alchemist called the great-nephew to the Queen of Faerie; aesthetes, dandies, visionaries, antiquaries, fortune tellers and fakirs, forgotten writers and much more.Mark Valentine's third collection of essays explores the curious byways of literature and lore in a similar manner to his earlier volumes Haunted by Books and A Country Still All Mystery.Taking its title from an encounter in Thomas De Quincey's youthful wanderings, Valentine's writing shares that author's delight in the arcane, the recondite and the obscure.

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