THE NINE DOORS

 TO THE KINGDOM OF SHADOWS

 

a.k.a. De Umbrarum Regis Novum Portis, "Nine Gates"

Written by Aristide Torchia in Venice, 1666.  The book contains nine woodcut engravings rumoured to be copied from the apocryphal Delomelanicon, a book purportedly written by the devil himself.  The Nine Doors to the Kingdom of Shadows is said to contain within its pages knowledge to raise the devil.  The author was burned, along with all his works in 1667.  Three copies are known to survive, one with Freida, Baroness Ungern, one in the Fargas collection, and one last known to be in the possession of Enrique Taillefer, but may have recently been sold to Boris Balkan, or the Coy Library of Varo Borja.

 

 

 

 

 

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Text taken from George Buruss' Malifinomicon and key words replaced to represent text of the Nine Doors.  The nine engravings and cover page copied from the novel, The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte.  Postcard of La Tour Du Diable taken from several screen captures from the Roman Polanski film, "The Ninth Gate" and cleaned up to form a single composite photograph using Adobe Photoshop.  Pages aged with vinegar and tea solution.  Pages bound using a combination of screw post "Chicago" screws and hot glue.  Book bound in leather.