Sign-In
Cart
The Castle That Dreamed Of Blood
Paperback
Publisher: David Thomas
Published: May 31 2026
Pages: 262
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.59 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
High in the frozen mountains, far from any king's road and beyond the reach of mercy, stands a fortress abandoned by history and feared by every village that still remembers its name.
When a weary mercenary company takes shelter inside the ruined castle during a savage winter campaign, they believe they have found protection from the storm, the enemy, and the dead men left behind on the battlefield. But the fortress is not empty. Its halls shift in the dark. Its doors open onto rooms that should not exist. Portraits watch from rotting walls. Banquet tables appear laid for nobles who were slaughtered centuries before. At night, soldiers wake with blood on their hands and no memory of how it came to be there.
The castle is dreaming.
And its dream is murder.
Long ago, within these same walls, a noble house tried to bind an ancient power beneath the stone. What followed was a massacre so terrible that the fortress never truly died. Now it feeds on memory, fear, guilt, and violence, dragging the living into the sins of the dead. As the mercenaries begin to turn against one another, old ghosts walk the corridors, forgotten crimes rise from the crypts, and the castle forces its new guests to repeat the bloodshed that first awakened it.
Trapped by the storm and hunted by the place that shelters them, the survivors must uncover the truth buried beneath the keep before the final act of the castle's dream is complete. But the deeper they descend, the clearer one thing becomes: the fortress does not simply remember blood.
It wants more.
The Castle That Dreamed of Blood is a dark Gothic fantasy of haunted stone, doomed soldiers, ancient curses, and a living fortress that hungers for slaughter. Atmospheric, violent, and grim, it is a tale of war, madness, betrayal, and the terrible price paid when men seek to imprison something older than death.
Also from
Thomas, David
Capable: How to Teach Your Kids the Strengths, Skills, and Strategies to Build Resilience
Goff, Sissy, Lpc-Mhsp
Thomas, David
Hardcover
The Pragmatic Programmer: Your Journey to Mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition
Thomas, David
Hunt, Andrew
Hardcover
I Am Capable: Unlocking the Secret Strengths Inside of You
Goff, Sissy, Lpc-Mhsp
Thomas, David
Paperback
Pippa Learns to Share the Spotlight: A Lesson about Jealousy
Thomas, David
Goff, Sissy, Lpc-Mhsp
Hardcover
Early Muslim Polemic Against Christianity: Abu ISA Al-Warraq's 'Against the Incarnation'
Warraq, Muhammad Ibn Harun
Thomas, David
Hardcover
Fun at Work: How to Boost Creativity, Unleash Innovation, and Reinvent the Future of Work Using the Transformative Power of Play
Steinberg, Scott
Thomas, David
Paperback
Police Psychology: A New Specialty and New Challenges for Men and Women in Blue
Thomas, David
Hardcover
The State of American Policing: Psychology, Behavior, Problems, and Solutions
Thomas, David
Hardcover
Understanding Violent Criminals: Insights from the Front Lines of Law Enforcement
Thomas, David
Hardcover
The Gig Economist's Guide to Financial Freedom: Budgeting for Irregular Income
Thomas, David
Paperback
Expressions by King David Vol. 5: The Realest Poet You Know!!!: Book of Poems!
Thomas, David
Paperback
Taking the Lead: Winning Business Principles That Fuel Joe Gibbs Racing
Thomas, David
Alpern, Dave
Audio Book
Problemata Mundi: The Book of Job Exegetically and Practically Considered: Containing Ninety-one H
Davidson, Samuel
Thomas, David
Paperback
The Genius of the Fourth Gospel: The Gospel of St. John, Exegetically and Practically Considered: 2
Thomas, David
Hardcover
Expressions by King David: Daily Poetic Devotions/ Journal: Inspirational and Infuelntial book
Thomas, David
Thomas, David H.
Paperback
The Genius of the Fourth Gospel: The Gospel of St. John, Exegetically and Practically Considered: 2
Thomas, David
Paperback
Problemata Mundi: The Book of Job Exegetically and Practically Considered: Containing Ninety-one H
Davidson, Samuel
Thomas, David
Hardcover
The Genius of the Gospel; a Homiletical Commentary on the Gospel of St. Matthew. Edited by William Webster
Thomas, David
Hardcover
The Genius of the Gospel; a Homiletical Commentary on the Gospel of St. Matthew. Edited by William Webster
Thomas, David
Paperback
The Genius of the Gospel: A Homiletical Commentary on the Gospel of St. Matthew
Thomas, David
Paperback
Christian-Muslim Relations. a Bibliographical History. Volume 2 (900-1050)
Thomas, David
Mallett, Alexander
Hardcover
The Multicultural Mind: Unleashing the Hidden Force for Innovation in Your Organization
Thomas, David
Audio Book
The Multicultural Mind: Unleashing the Hidden Force for Innovation in Your Organization
Thomas, David
Audio Book
The Genius of the Fourth Gospel, The Gospel of St. John Exegetically and Pratically Considered, Cont
Thomas, David
Paperback
The Genius of the Fourth Gospel, The Gospel of St. John Exegetically and Pratically Considered, Cont
Thomas, David
Hardcover
Capable: How to Teach Your Kids the Strengths, Skills, and Strategies to Build Resilience
Goff, Sissy, Lpc-Mhsp
Thomas, David
Audio Book
Capable: How to Teach Your Kids the Strengths, Skills, and Strategies to Build Resilience
Goff, Sissy, Lpc-Mhsp
Thomas, David
Audio Book
The Philosophy of Happiness, Lectures on the Crisis of Being, and the Progress of Being
Thomas, David
Hardcover
The Philosophy of Happiness, Lectures on the Crisis of Being, and the Progress of Being
Thomas, David
Paperback
Also in
Horror
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Paperback
Japanese Gothic: A Folk Horror Novel of Japanese Mythology, Murder, and Family Duty Across Two Timelines
Baker, Kylie Lee
Hardcover
Incidents Around the House: A Novel: The Inspiration for the Movie Other Mommy
Malerman, Josh
Paperback
The Amalfi Curse: A Bewitching Tale of Sunken Treasure, Forbidden Love, and Ancient Magic on the Amalfi Coast
Penner, Sarah
Paperback
Frankenstein, Dracula, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Stoker, Bram
Shelley, Mary
Paperback
THE GIRLS IN THE CABIN an absolutely unputdownable psychological thriller packed with heart-stopping twists
Stephens, Caleb
Paperback
From the Library of Jurgen Leitner (the Magnus Archives)
Rusty Quill
Mohamed, Premee
Sims, Jonathan
Hardcover