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.
Author
Paul Finch is a former cop and journalist, now full-time writer. Having originally written for the television series THE BILL plus children's animation and DOCTOR WHO audio dramas, he went on to write horror, but is now best known for his crime / thriller fiction. He won the British Fantasy Award twice and the International Horror Guild Award, but since then has written two parallel series of hard-hitting crime novels, the Heck and the Lucy Clayburn novels, of which three titles have become best-sellers. Paul lives in Wigan, Lancashire, UK with his wife and children.
