The Ghost-Tides of Vetrnætr

Autumn 862 AD. THE BLOOD MONTH BEGINS The smoke of burning scriptoriums still hangs heavy over the Kentish hills. Outside the ruined walls of Canterbury, an old monk, a trembling novice, and a scarred Danish trader huddle around a flickering hearth fire to keep the freezing nights at bay. As the ghost-tides of Vetrnætr rise, the ancient Norse Winter Nights, the veil between the living and the slain grows thin. Brother Aldhelm sets down eight haunting tales never recorded in the holy books. These are legends whispered across frost-rimed barrows, blood-stained salt reaches, and forgotten Roman roads… places where the dead do not always lie quiet. Inside this chilling collection of Dark Age folklore: Story I: The Whispering Barrow of the Jute Kings (Hengist & Horsa at Pegwell Bay) Story II: The Spectre of the Salt-Reach (The drowned shield-maiden & Álfablót) Story III: The Dead of the Burning Scriptorium (Canterbury, old Brother Osric, & Ælla) Story IV: The Phantom of the Wealden Way (The Romano-British legionary spirit) Story V: The Ghost of the Aylesford Oak (Oath-breakers in the Medway Valley) Story VI: The Witch-Light of Ebbsfleet (The submerged Jute galley in the quicksand) Story VII: The Shadow of the Mære (The nocturnal nightmare entity in the hearth-hall) …and more. A collection of Anglo-Saxon and Viking hauntings told on the threshold of winter, when the old gods still walk and the dead refuse to rest.