The Assassins (Fantasy and Horror Classics)

By Percy Bysshe Shelley

In a sublime valley hidden from the world, a community of zealots trains for a singular, chilling purpose: assassination.

High in the remote mountains of Syria lies the Valley of the Assassins, a hidden community living in perfect seclusion and governed by radical virtue. To the world, they are a secret cult of murderers; to themselves, they are the sole guardians of a higher ethical truth.

Shelley's visionary prose explores the terrifying question at the heart of their society: Can the execution of a single tyrant, the most horrific act imaginable, be justified as a selfless duty necessary to save thousands and usher in a utopian age of peace?

From the master of Romantic verse comes a mesmerizing prose fragment that weaves Gothic atmosphere with a radical political vision.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1447403983
• ISBN13: 9781447403982
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Fantasy and Horror Classics
• Length: 36 Pages
• Weight: 0.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.5" x 8.5"