Abyssinia by Damian Murphy (Mount Abraxas Press) Hardcover

Damian Murphy. Abyssinia. Bucharest: Mount Abraxas Press, 2025. Hardcover with dust jacket. 51 pages. Limited to 107 hand-numbered copies (#75/107). Artwork by José Gabriel Alegría Sabogal.

Condition: New

Description from the publisher: 

A Novella of horrifying revelations and the Occult.

Abyssinia follows the intrigues and deceptions of two women, each of which are staying in one of seven luxury suites in the Hotel Argentum. The suites are named after former European territories whose boundaries have since been subsumed. Petra has checked into Fiume, whose final days were spent beneath the deranged auspices of the poet and dictator Gabriele D’Annunzio. Celia is staying in Galicia, whose fate was sealed soon after the First World War. Between the women stands Karl Reginald von Lobkowicz, an antiquated doll which Celia is seldom seen without. Petra’s fascination vacillates between the cracked and blemished figure and its eccentric owner. The matter is further complicated by the appearance of an eighth suite, which appears to be concealed somewhere within the Hotel grounds.

Abyssinia draws its intoxicating atmosphere from Robert Altman’s Three Women, Claude Chabrol’s Les Biches and Ingmar Bergman’s Persona.