Confessions of a Banshee
“Murmurs passed along the valleys like the Banshee's lonely croon And a thousand blades were flashing at the rising of the moon.“ John Keegan Casey,…
Mano Niuhi: The Legend of the Sharkmen
“The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.” --- Joseph Conrad Eyes dark as undelved pearls…
Lord of the Crimson Snow: The Saga of Krampus
"The mystery which binds me still--- From the torrent, or the fountain--- From the red cliff of the mountain--- From the sun that 'round me roll’d In…
Dark Renaissance
Romania, Year of Our Lord 1460 “I'm hunger. I'm thirst. Where I bite, I hold till I die, and even after death, they must cut out my mouthful from my…
Exiles of the Sun
“If I'm an angel, paint me with black wings.” --- Anne Rice, The Vampire Armand A collective shudder of eager expectation like the ripple of massing…
Into the Dreamtime
"Van Diemen's land is a hell for a man To end out his whole life in slavery Where the climate is raw and the gun makes the law Neither wind nor rain…
Mari Lwyd
Setting: 14th Century Cymru ("Wales" in the Saxon Conquest), Post-Anglo-Norman Conquest The Mari Lwyd (/mæriˈlɔɪd/) is a wassailing folk custom found…
Black Forest: The Legend of Krampus
"By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes." --- William Shakespeare Setting: Renaissance Germany The fugitive, desperately…
The Familiar
"By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. Open, locks, whoever knocks." --- William Shakespeare, Macbeth Aloof from the…
Smiles of Fire to the Night
“Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!” --- Bram Stoker, Dracula As if a mad carnival rolled into town, the leaf-strewn…
