In Chains of the Crosier

In Chains of the Crosier
Author: Onyeomabueze Uba
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2013-11-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 149312224X

Uchenna Achebe was born out of wedlock into the cold arms of poverty. He grew up in the abandoned forest of Amigbo. His life testified to the reality of the changing nature of human fortunes as Uchenna later became one of the strongest pillars of his society. Serving as a parish priest at one of the parishes in Offornaogu, he encountered the light and the dark. In a bid to unravel the mystery surrounding the prophecies of the gods, he found himself in a dilemma; to choose between the quest and the desire The desire, having occupied the innermost part of his thought, became his undoing and the forces of the dark which he set to destroy turned him into an unwilling tool against the light. An illegitimate child deemed unworthy of the gods might be his only hope if the prophecies of the gods had anything to go by. The stage was set for a showdown; only the gods could foresee the chains hidden in the desire of the crosier.

Viking encounters

Viking encounters
Author: Anne Pedersen
Publisher: Aarhus Universitetsforlag
Total Pages: 636
Release: 2020-09-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 877184936X

The Viking Congresses bring together scholars of archaeology, philology, history, toponymy, numismatics and a number of other disciplines to discuss the Viking Age from a variety of viewpoints. This volume contains 44 peer-reviewed papers selected from those presented at the 18th Viking Congress held in Denmark in August 2017. The contributors take up the interdisciplinary challenge, and the papers cover a wide range of subjects, rooted in the past, but also connecting to the present.

The Terror

The Terror
Author: Dan Simmons
Publisher: Little, Brown
Total Pages: 798
Release: 2007-03-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0316003883

The "masterfully chilling" novel that inspired the hit AMC series (Entertainment Weekly). The men on board the HMS Terror — part of the 1845 Franklin Expedition, the first steam-powered vessels ever to search for the legendary Northwest Passage — are entering a second summer in the Arctic Circle without a thaw, stranded in a nightmarish landscape of encroaching ice and darkness. Endlessly cold, they struggle to survive with poisonous rations, a dwindling coal supply, and ships buckling in the grip of crushing ice. But their real enemy is even more terrifying. There is something out there in the frigid darkness: an unseen predator stalking their ship, a monstrous terror clawing to get in. “The best and most unusual historical novel I have read in years.” —Katherine A. Powers, Boston Globe

Weirdbook #32

Weirdbook #32
Author: Adrian Cole
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2016-06-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1479422525

Weirdbook #32 presents a selection of great fantasy and horror tales by current and upcoming masters of the genre. Included are: Childhood's Dread, by Taye Carrol The Other Neighbors, by Daniel Davis Rare Air, by Mark Slade The Children, by J.E. Álamo The Radiant Boy, by Kevin Wetmore The Whisperer in the Woods, by Peter Schranz Sweet Oblivion, by Andrew Darlington An Unsolicited Lucidity, by Lee Clark Zumpe Black Carnival, by Bobby Cranestone The Howard Family Tradition, by P. R. O'Leary Hell in a Boxcar, by Scott A. Cupp Jorōgumo, by Kelda Crich Clay Baby, by Jack Lee Taylor The Corpse and the Rat: A Story of Friendship, by Joshua L. Hood Getting Thin, by DJ Tyrer Maybe Next Door, by Richard LaPore Containment Protocol, by Leeman Kessler Under a Rock, by Lori R. Lopez The Children Must Be Hungry, by L.F. Falconer The Road to Hell, by Kevin L. O'Brien Maggot Coffee, by Roy C. Booth and Axel Kohagenv Baby Mine, by Marilyn "Mattie" Brahen In Blackwalk Wood, by Adrian Cole My Longing to See Tamar, by Jessica Amanda Salmonson Gust of Wind Made by Swinging a Blade, by Molly N. Moss Necromancer's Lair, by Chad Hensley The Helm, by Chad Hensley Ex Arca Sepulcrali, by Wade German The Laughter of Ghouls, by K.A. Opperman Ode to Ashtoreth, by K.A. Opperman The Necro-Conjuring Sorceress, by Ashley Dioses What Dark Gods Are Friends to Me? by Chad Hensley Scarlet Succubus Shrine, by Frederick J. Mayer Penelope, Sleepless, by Darrell Schweitzer