A Creature of the Twilight: His Memorials, Being some account of episodes in the career of His Excellency Manfred Arcane, Minister without Portfolio to the Hereditary President of.

Set in an African land called Hamnegri, this story of strange characters and labyrinthine intrigues is comparable to nothing else in recent fiction. Styled by its author "a baroque romance," A Creature of the Twilight penetrates cuttingly into the troubled heart of modern Africa; more, it casts a fitful and sometimes eerie light upon a curious set of Europeans, Americans, and Africans who are drawn into the vortex of Hamnegri's civil war.