The deceitful intrigues of an automaton. A trip through a mineshaft beneath the ravages of the midnight hunt. A bureaucratic rite involving a venerable game of strategy. An explosive insurrection in Krakow. The stories and novellas in The Exalted and the Abased, the third collection to come from the imaginative stylus of occult author Damian Murphy, explore the hidden constitution of the night itself, and, dipping the reader into new moods, expose them to evocative and fascinating planes of esoteric fiction.