The Dark Shelf

A Siberian peasant who spoke with tsars, healed the heir, and became a saint to some, a devil to others.

Quatrains that every age reads to itself.

Everything is poison and everything is medicine; it is all in the dose. I cut open corpses, burned herbs and argued with an entire faculty.

The Great Copt, magician and adventurer in one person.

Elizabeth's mathematician, who spoke with angels through a mirror.