Meet the enigmatic immortal Axel Rathenius, the mournful Hecate Rain, the mysterious Nicodemus Rham, keeper of the Lucifer's Light on Devil's Rocks, the flamboyant antiquary Ragan Barling, the necromantically-inclined Madame Vashti Savage, Eirene Magdelana, the morpheomorphist who lives on Snowspur Mountain communing with the winds, Myrica Mavor whose Galley walls exhibit the sacred and the profane, physician Fion Commonal, funeral director Emmaus Partibus, and all the other artists living on the island of Mnemosyne in the Everlasting Empire, 2, 000 years after the birth of the Divine Caesar...

The Wayward Muse is fantasy in the tradition of Michael Moorcock and Neil Gaiman. Brian Stableford has been a professional writer since 1965. He has published more than 50 novels and two hundred short stories.