A Ballet of Wasps

This volume consists of four short stories and a play. The first, A Ballet of Wasps, deals with a woodsman who offends a vampire with tales of derring-do. Our second story, Golgotha's Centurion, focuses on the chiaroscuro and ochre tints in Giotto and Cimabue. It also makes use of the same template as Mel Gibson in his Passion of the Christ, but this time to illustrate Lex talionis. The third piece, Wilderness' Ape, delves into the world of zombies or the living dead. Sixty Foot Dolls - our fourth javelin - considers the vexed topics of 'ageism', eugenesis, regression theory and evolution. The last romance, Stinging Beetles, is a theatrical exercise in daemonic possession which brings together flash backs, dream sequences and other filmic techniques. Its finale again enforces the point of the whole book - namely, that heroic values and aristocratic mores need to take over once again.