ANCIENT LIGHTS

by Davis Grubb

$100 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

New York: The Viking Press, 1982 . Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. A picaresque tale of a battle between light and darkness set in rural West Virginia, from the author of the celebrated NIGHT OF THE HUNTER. A bawdy blend of the Rabelaisian and the Gnostic, the novel chronicles at sprawling length the bizarre rise of a messianic figure and is never less than intriguing. - Barron ed , Fantasy Literature

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