Perhaps they'd been discovered posing the corpses of plague victims inappropriately for the amusement of their friends, or caught once more sipping wine from father's codpiece behind the stables; who can say? What is certain is that, as penance for their misdeeds, the misbehaving children of nobility would have been subjected to the reading of a gruesome bedtime tale-one calculated to lace their fleeting slumber with ghastly, soul-twisting nightmares.
From the deliciously dark imagination of W. Michael Lyngstad comes a dark, medieval folk-horror collection blending poetry, folklore, and macabre tales. Once whispered to frighten unruly noble children, these dark faux-medieval tales drip with blood, gore & wicked humor.
