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The Horror of Amlethstein
Paperback
Series: The Blackspeare Tales, Book 1
FantasyGeneral FictionGeneral GLBTQIA Fiction
Publisher: Old House Publishing
Published: Feb 3 2026
Pages: 284
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.64 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Amleth Godfredsen, King of the Danes is dead. His only son and heir Frans Amlethsen awakens from near death to find himself burdened by a broken body, mind and realm which he does not recognise and which cannot easily be made whole. As dark forces converge from without and within, it seems the living and the dead mean to bring judgement down on the House of Godfredsen.
As rebellion gathers in taverns and forests, ancient gods stir once more beneath soil soaked in blood. Pagan skin-walkers prowl the coasts. Old rites return without mercy. Church and heathen, king and rebel, salvation and torment collapse into a single knife's edge.
Plagued by spirits that demand vengeance, whispers of betrayal, and memories that refuse to settle into truth, Amlethsen's journey will see him reforged into something new and monstrous, as he slips beneath a tide of rage gnawing at his soul.
Amlethstein is a brutal gothic horror tale of resurrection, religious violence, and political collapse - a world of ritual sacrifice, mutilation, burning, and unquiet dead, where belief justifies cruelty, love births tragedy, and the cost of life is paid in blood. Amlethstein is an exploration of what remains after faith and treachery have finished tearing a kingdom apart and of how judgement can come for the innocent and guilty alike.
The first book in The Blackspeare Tales, a trilogy of books scheduled for release in 2026.
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