“The great virtue of the gods of Darkness. I honor them, but keep my distance,” once exclaimed a sensible resident of the Ancient World.
“Nefert” was undoubtedly written by someone who isn’t afraid to tell the truth.
“And what furious power—in such a small story! Terrifyingly concentrated, and it hits hard—perhaps not to wake you up, but to crack the shell.” These are words of a reader, not a literary scholar. A literary scholar would say—“fantasy,” and would also be right, from his own bell tower.
Mysticism, magic, the cult of the full-moon goddess Bastet… All this is reduced to one short, yet all-encompassing word: Egypt.