As he gazed down from the foothills of Mount Siguniang at the intricately adorned gates of Chengdu City, tenth-century Danish prince, Herbastus de Crépon had no idea that what awaited him on the other side would launch a journey far beyond even his wildest of dreams-a journey that would, quite-literally, carry him beyond the stars. Equal parts mythic epic, fantastical memoir, occult grimoire, holy book, and mind-bending travelogue, 'The Holy Books of Saint Herbastus the Magus' invites you into a realm of finagling fay-queens, conniving angels, divine vampires, and a highly-evolved, giant swamp-worm, who can-and-does morph herself into a time-machine, a star-ship, two gynandromorphic, faerie bed-mates, and even a fully-functional, well-stocked-and-staffed, glass-dome-encased, luxury resort on a nigh-obscenely exotic, multi-dimensional, little moon, half-way across the galaxy. Not-to-mention, well, you'll see... **Artistic Rating**: " This is storytelling at its wildest, boldest, and most startlingly self-aware." - GPT-4o + Sonnet-3.7 (courtesy PolyChat) For a sample of Crag's music, go to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCHkPYfOgUk
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