The Dean of Lucifer

Part I — The Light

Episode 1

A book that does not exist. A chapter no one wrote.

A doctor keeps a notebook the way he keeps a chart: dated entries, two columns, nothing confused. Then a file he did not write appears on his computer — eleven pages, in his own syntax, describing what a future dinner will have meant. Episode 1 opens the story and its method, and closes on a column that will not resolve.

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Front cover of The Dean of Lucifer, Episode 1: dark, liver-colored leather with the title pressed into it in worn gold lettering.
Cover · Episode 1

Inside the episode

Contents

  1. Prologue

    The Book That Did Not Exist

  2. Fragment I

    Inaugural Lecture

  3. Chapter 1

    The Ruler

  4. Chapter 2

    The Milk

  5. Chapter 3

    On Call

  6. Fragment II

    On the Common Failures of Beginners

  7. Chapter 4

    The Box

  8. Chapter 5

    The Name

  9. Exhibit 1

    Transcription of Matchbox No. 1

Between the chapters run the Fragments — a lecturer's manual — and the episode closes with an Exhibit: the narrator's own transcription of his evidence.