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Orrin is desperate to escape life's crushing banalities. Enter Dores, a charismatic Spanish librarian he befriends on Instagram. With a gratuitous job offer on the cards, he travels to León and begins a night shift in a place where the broken and weary congregate in healing silence. The medieval library is painted with images of raw and deformed beauty, rivers of anguish, self-torment, lonely exile, and unexplained sorrows. As Orrin explores blackest shadows of the library, he discovers further paintings of dozen children riding a giant goat glowing with human vitality. He's about to become Isidora's pawn. You'll see what she wants you to see...
Writing about Isidora's Pawn, author Erik Hofstatter said: "It is a homage to ageless Gothic classics of tragic and unrequited love -- 'The Phantom of the Opera' & 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame'. It's an intrusive emotion. Love. The character of Isidora was inspired by the 'Jersey Devil', a legendary creature from the New Jersey folklore. The mythos seduced me right away. I combined those flavours with a Spanish traditional holiday called 'El Colacho', which involves men dressed as the Devil and jumping over babies who lie on mattresses in the street. People who read my short novel 'Toroa' will know how much I relish writing about infants. But Isidora's Pawn explores a different angle entirely. Another ingredient was a report about a Peruvian gang that supposedly murdered people for their fat."

(cover by Adrian Baldwin)

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  • Print Length: 94 Pages
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