Brilliant scholar and wordsmith David Bentley Hart turns his mind and imagination to narrative fiction in this volume, The Devil and Pierre Gernet, a thought-provoking collection of four short stories and one novella. Anticipating questions about his shift in genre, Hart writes that God is no more likely (and probably a good deal less likely) to be found in theology than in poetry and fiction.

These stories – The Devil and Pierre Gernet,
The House of Apollo,
A Voice from the Emerald World,
The Ivory Gate, and The Other – beguile and entrance the reader through Hart’s engrossing, opulent writing style and the complex characters he evokes and explores.

Often bedazzling, sometimes heartbreaking, and ultimately mesmerizing, Hart’s wide-ranging stories are united by a common thread of haunting religious and philosophical questions about this life and the next. Here is fiction to fully engage both the mind and the heart.