A Light of Little Radiance
by Beverley Lee, Keith Anthony Baird
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Pub Date 19 Nov 2024 | Archive Date 19 Dec 2024
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Description
Selina Dragavei wanders the northern wastes in fear of persecution from the Holy Roman Church. In Europe's Dark Age, witchfinders scour the lands and traveller folk such as she are put to flame and suffering. On the ruthless steppes, she evades them but something far sinister will lay claim to her soul.
Returning to the world of men, a dark, transformed Selina has a thirst for blood and only the drift down through the centuries will quench it. But she won't make that journey alone, as she determines to bring others to her. As a troupe of entertainers, they attend pageants, festivals, and even royal galas, where a family bound to darkness feed on unsuspecting mortals. Such debauchery, however, does not go unnoticed. Famed witchfinder, Desider von Brandenburg, becomes obsessed with bringing this band of vampire-devils to a righteous cleansing, and so a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues.
Will the holy man bring God's wrath down upon them, or will Selina and her nightwalkers battle the might of Heaven and emerge unscathed? Only instinct, cunning, and a little luck under the watch of a wolf moon will tell...
Available Editions
EDITION | Ebook |
ISBN | 9781963355079 |
PRICE | US$4.99 (USD) |
PAGES | 169 |
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Featured Reviews
If Stoker, Le Fanu and Lumley ever wrote a book together, this would be it.
Old-style vampire tale, old-school vampires, that dychotomy between good and evil, right and wrong, the weight of the survival instinct vs the weight of faith and religion... wow. What a ride! I read this in a couple of sittings, that's how engrossed I was with this tale. Everything about it sent me back to my younger days of being goth and devouring this kind of story and longing for more and more and more. The ambiance, the mood, the historical settings, everything was pretty much perfect for me, in this novella. The characters and their depth (hard to achieve in long novels, let alone in novellas) was what came out the most, for me, each one with such individual traits that are shown to the reader through their actions and their thoughts, with barely any dialogue or exposition. This is hard to achieve, fellows, but these two authors did such an amazing job of it! Easy five star read for me, and I will def recommend it to fans of old school vampire stories with great writing.
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