Darker Ages

Contains the novellas:

THE BLOOD MONTH & TWILIGHT IN THE ORM-GARTH.

Introduced by Mike Ashley. Jacket Art by Richard Gray.

THE BLOOD MONTH In 1030 AD, King Olaf of Norway, a Christian Viking, driven from his homeland two years previously, returns with a small band of warriors, and attempts to overthrow the pagan administration set up in his absence by the ruthless King Sveyn of Denmark.

TWILIGHT IN THE ORM-GARTH It is the spring of 1070, and the Norman baron, Dagobert of Caux, is celebrating his fiftieth birthday at his stronghold, Wulfbury Castle, on England’s eastern coast. But this will not be a happy occasion. For a fearsome being is also headed for Wulfbury, a being whose hellish appearance and brutish nature encapsulate all that once was savage and barbarous about ancient, pagan Britain.

Out of print from the publisher. 220 copies printed in total. Publisher no longer in business.