MEDI-EVIL 1
Two Viking brothers are called to defend a remote outpost against a mysterious, invisible enemy ... a serial sex murderer causes panic on the streets of Elizabethan London ... a party of Roman soldiers are hunted by ogres through the marshes of ancient Britain.
Three novellas of historical horror and supense by the two-times winner of the British Fantasy Award and the International Horror Guild Award.
The Blood Month
When Radnar and Ljot, two Christian Vikings, flee the vengeance of the pagan King of Denmark, they seek refuge with their uncle on his Greenland farmstead. But all is not well here. An ancient power is stirring in the icy vapour, and one by one their kinfolk are dying in unspeakable ways ...
Flibbertigibbet
Master-spy Robert Urmston is weary of hunting for heretics whose religious beliefs will see them brutally executed. But when a nameless assailant starts ripping and tearing his way through the fallen women of Southwark, Urmston is put on the trail of a far deadlier and more elusive prey ...
The Gods of Green And Grey
Ambitious Roman officer Livius doesn't fancy the building detail he is given in the fens of eastern Britain. The memories of Boudicca's bloody revolt still linger in this fog-shrouded region. But something else lurks out here too. Something far more terrible than the wild Britons or the bottomless bog-pools.