Disbelief
by Cooper Renner

Description

A novel, 96 pages. A young American scholar working in an Maltese monastery library makes an astonishing find: two previously unknown writings by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the disordered stanzas of a narrative poem set on the island and fragmentary autobiographical material which echoes the poem’s shocking theme. What actually happened to Coleridge in Malta in 1805? Do these pages reveal a never suspected truth?

By the same author: Dr. Polidori’s Sketchbook, Dr. Jesus and Mr Dead, A Death By the Sea, A Spurious Dead in a Foreign Country.

Excerpt:

“The moon was full enough. Or so I thought.” He stopped, scuffing the dirt with his left hand, then lifting a rock and tossing it out into the wavering water. “I was near a crest, where the trees grew just a bit more thickly, when I heard a sound—like that of many feet running. Then to my right, nearer the crest of the hill, a pack of dogs—I swear I thought them wolves at first—”

“Wolves? On Malta?” The look in the doctor’s eyes conveyed more than Sam wanted to read.