The Rooms and The Rituals
a graphic novel script

published 31 December 2001

"These pages contain the most extreme acts that I have ever encountered in art.
Not since the Marquis de Sade has an author demonstrated such an imagination
for the darker side of human sexuality and, indeed, of human nature in general. In these pages, Darius dreams of a society in which the most extreme acts have become ritualized, the curtains of the boudoir drawn away. Darius radically crafts compelling aesthetic visions, even beauty, of creatively tortured and murdered bodies, and our revulsion is only equaled by his genius, of which our mix of deep horror and illicit pleasure is but a sign. Make no mistake:
this is a masterwork for the ages."
-- STEPHEN LIGHTON

The Rooms and The Rituals
is both a self-contained work and a part of A New Eden, the final graphic novel in the nine-part Esprit Noir series.

The Rooms and The Rituals is part of a larger attempt to describe a culture set after the end of history - and perhaps of conflict itself. Set in the far future, it is an aesthetic work for its own sake, more a work of narrative philosophy than of science fiction.

Readers should be forewarned, however; this volume is extremely offensive to modern Western sensibilities (or lacks thereof).

72 pages. Signed and numbered paperback. $18.98.
Gentle Scorpion Press, 31 December 2001.

"Filth. Just plain filth. It should be burned."
-- ANONYMOUS