Catalogue

Finding aid · the Candlemount file · holdings as displayed

Candlemount is a fantasy series. The technology is new; the magic is ancient. Four lives converge over six months – and behind them, an institution older than the Church, finishing what it started. The first book, The Analogue Heretic, is pending release.

Printed volume – The Analogue Heretic

The account. Four people’s stories converge over six months: an engineer building a new technology he doesn’t fully understand; a witch who’s sold out his own kind; a woman previously overlooked, thrust into a realm unseen for centuries; a member of the Wild Hunt trying to keep back the modern world. Examine it on the table.

Register, ref CDM/1605

A continuation volume, spine scraped blank. Four centuries of entries in different hands, keeping watch on a deserted village site in Wiltshire. Nearly every entry ends the same way: they found nothing.

Specimen 04-A – water

Drawn from the spring at the site. Result, every time: no anomaly detected.

Specimen 02-C – limestone core

Bored from one of the standing stones. Limestone. Nothing else. Sampled nine times.

Leaf – almanac, unprovenanced

A printed leaf from a village almanac. No village name appears on it.

Transcription – inscription, north-west stone

A four-by-four grid of numbers, copied faithfully. Meaning not established. Filed unread.

Item without a tag

A handwritten note. It is not part of the collection, and it was not there yesterday. It appears to be addressed to whoever finds it.