The Forger's Requiem

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Many years ago, I visited a small museum that housed a private collection of rare and antique books. On the second floor, tucked away without any pomp or circumstance, was a first edition of Mary Shelley's The Last Man. Reader, I wept when I saw it. So it goes without saying that I was immediately,......more

There is something irresistible about the forger. He is at once a criminal and an artist, a rogue and a craftsman, a figure who inhabits the margins of civilization while demonstrating an almost unsettling intimacy with its cultural foundations. He is the antihero of the intellectual world, a man wh......more

The final novel in the Forger’s trilogy from Bradford Morrow, THE FORGER’S REQUIEM, takes on a dark literary tour once again into the lives of professional forgers of classic novels. It opens with a horrific situation whereby a man finds himself buried alive. Once he recognizes his fate, he gets his......more

THE FORGER’S REQUIEM, which wraps up Bradford Morrow’s trilogy that began with THE FORGERS and continued with THE FORGER’S DAUGHTER, once again takes readers on a dark literary tour into the lives of professional forgers of classic novels. Literary forger Henry Slader finds himself buried alive. Once......more