The Gate is open…

Some years ago, Nick Bantock wrote a trilogy of books about characters called Griffin and Sabine, lovers who meet by corresponding through letters and postcards, and who share a peculiar mental link. Griffin is in London, Sabine in the Pacific, but they seem to be separated by time as well as by distance. The books are unique in that they include both the postcards and even the letters in envelopes, which the reader can remove, unfold and read.

Most people believe the Griffin and Sabine books to be works of fiction, but in the occult underground it’s whispered that the books are reproductions of the letters and postcards of real people. When they disappeared from this world and passed through the Gate, they actually ascended to the Invisible Clergy – together, as The Lovers.

If this is true, Bantock’s second trilogy involving Griffin and Sabine suggests that these two Lovers might be the only members of the Invisible Clergy able to send letters and postcards from the Statosphere back to our world.