Joseph Sale

Virtue's End: a continuation of Spenser's Faerie Queene Joseph Sale

Virtue's End is a spell, a magickal incantation designed to invoke and vivify that which has been lost by the modern world. This lyrical, occult fantasy-epic follows the account of Horus, a magickal sorcerer blessed with both hellish and heavenly powers, who, upon meeting the demon Melmoth, embarks on a strange quest to save the mystical realm of Ethismos, the seat of human imagination. There, Horus will meet great warriors and friends who will aid him in his battle against the coming darkness, as well as ghosts of his past, spectres of the traumas he has endured, and old enemies hellbent on vengeance.


Despite its fantastical dimensions, Virtue's End remains Sale's most intimate, confessional, and personal work, an autobiography of the psychic scarring and divine manifestations that catalysted the birth of a new, Christian magician.
"I've many names, but you may call me One,
I am Horus, the Avenging Son."

Virtue's End includes 6 illustrations by Brian Barr.