 As he travels the Holy Lands with his mentor Dositheus, and their student Menander, they become entangled in a complex plot designed to call down a monstrous alien entity to herald a new aeon on Earth.John Taggart, the time traveler from Tierney's "The Winds of Zarr" becomes involved with Simon of Gitta, as their separate quests converge toward a common goal of saving the very Earth.Tierney has continued to publish weird verse, with the volume "Savage Menace and Other Poems of Horror" (2010) collecting all his verse subsequent to "Collected Poems".