The Third Nose: A Deranged Slavic Occult Adventure
Three Zagreb bowling buddies stumble onto a centuries-old occult manuscript hidden in an abandoned cobbler's shop, and before they know it, they've torn open doorways into parallel worlds, made enemies of an immortal Slavic queen who drains youth from her victims, and somehow gotten tangled up with a garden gnome, a pair of loan sharks, and a god who used to be a small-time hood from notorious part of Zagreb, Knežija.
Anjelko is a mystic who can't stop having visions. Fabrizzio mysteriously resembles whoever you need him to resemble. Kamilo doesn't know it yet, but every time he sneezes, something catastrophic happens somewhere in the world. Together with two sharp, fearless occult-savvy women, Hana and Lovorka, they chase a magical doorway through a Zagreb gone art-obsessed, a Zagreb run entirely by women, and a dark underground court where the Black Queen has been hunting victims for six hundred years.
The Third Nose is an unhinged urban fantasy soaked in Slavic mysticism, dark magic, and full-throttle Balkan absurdity, equal parts occult adventure, satire, and slapstick comedy. For readers who love parallel worlds, magical realism, dark humor, and stories that refuse to take themselves seriously, even when the stakes involve immortal queens and interdimensional gnomes.
