Quaraun and The Time Weaver's Compendium
The TL;DR Description:
One night while strolling through The Godforsaken City, Quaraun finds an invitation to an elite auction house that claims to be in the possession of an ancient Time Travel instruction guide written by ArchDemons.
The Long Full Description:
Series Title: The Pink Necromancer: The Adventures of Quaraun The Insane aka The Twighlight Manor Series; The Quaraun Series (formerly known as The Twighlight Manor Series) spans more than 150 novels and more than 2,000 short stories published since the series started September 23, 1978. Each story is standalone and can be read in any order.
Story Title: Quaraun and The Time Weaver's Compendium: Quaraun receives an invitation to an elite auction house, to bid on 'The Time Weaver's Compendium', an ancient guide to time travel, written by an ArchDemon.
TYPE: Short Story
WORD COUNT: 13,139 words
PAGE COUNT: approx 36 printed paperback pages
POINT OF VIEW: third person; Quaraun's point of view
HAPPY EVER AFTER? Does any volume in the Quaraun series ever have a happy ending?
CLIFFHANGER ENDING: Uhm... no? This volume ends with a sort of "To Be Continued…." that doesn't actually continue, but don't they all?
CONTINUING SERIAL? Yes and No. Each story is standalone and can be read in any order. There are no part 1 continuing to part 2 type of format. Each story is self contained in one volume.
INTERRACIAL COUPLES? Yes; but not in this volume
LGBTQAI+ COUPLES? Yes; Quaraun is male and seeking the lost soul of his male lover.
GENRE: Dark Fantasy > Gothic Fantasy > Sword and Sorcery > Dialectic Fantasy > Experimental Abstract Literary Slice of Life > Gay Male Pulp Fiction Dialogue Vignette > Fictional Portrayal of Psychopaths > Grotesque Families & Relationships > Futuristic False Utopia Dystopic Societies > Fear of the Unknown Dystopian Literature > Dark Fantasy > Sword & Sorcery > Bizzarro > Literary > Absurdist > Yaoi > Gay Romance > Slice of Life > Dystopian > Post-Post-Zombie Apocalypse > Time Travel > Portal Fantasy > Character Study > Vignette
LANGUAGE: Scottish-Canadian English. This book is written by a Scottish author and is written in the author’s native language, Scottish English, then translated after into Canadian English.
LITERARY FICTION WARNING: This entire series is Character Driven Slice of Life Vignette Literary Fiction, meaning there's a lot of dialogue, a lot of talking, a lot of thinking, a lot of monologues, a lot of pontificating, and a lot of emotional introspective, but not much action or plot going on in this or any other volume of this heavily character driven series. Each story is a narrow, focused look at a single event (often a single day or hour) in Quaraun's life. This content warning has been added because for some reason, more than 1,000 readers have contacted me to suggest I add it because they said they would have bought nothing in the series had they known ahead of time this was LITERARY Fantasy and not generic Fantasy. shrug I don't see the need for this content warning, but, whatever. Here it is.
You'll Get...This purchase unlocks the "read on GumRoad" desktop edition of Quaraun and The Time Weaver's Compendium, wherein, Quaraun meanders through The Godforsaken City one fateful evening, he chances upon an invitation to an exclusive auction house purporting to possess an ancient instructional guide on Time Travel penned by ArchDemons.