Golden Walter leaves behind a life of betrayal to travel to a surreal land where the laws of reality are suspended. He encounters a dwarf, a maiden, and a sorceress in a wood that serves as a psychological landscape of desire and entrapment. The prose is deliberately archaic, creating a distance that enhances the dreamlike, almost hallucinogenic quality of the narrative. It is a pioneering work of supernatural fiction that dispenses with the modern world entirely to exist in a realm of pure imagination.
