Bermondsey Priory, 1114: A young chaplain succumbs to the temptations of the flesh and suffers a gruesome punishment. From that moment the monastery is cursed and over the next 500 years, murder and treachery abound inside its hallowed walls. A beautiful young bride found dead two days before her...
As we got off the galley at Kamares, she looked up at the mountains that surrounded the harbour, and cried out with joy. ‘Oh, Grandpa, it’s beautiful . . . magical!’ I cringed at her calling me her grandfather, even though it was true. It made me feel old, though that was ...
His wife watched him from the door-hole, one arm around her little daughter, the other holding a hand to her mouth in breathless anxiety. All Souls’ Night had been full of omens, starting with a huge ring around a ruddy moon. When the orb had set, flickering curtains...
He had been dreaming of a horde of Egyptian mummies rising from their stony sarcophagi and pursuing him down the dingy London streets near where he lodged. Just as the greyish bindings unravelled from the skull of the leading mummy, revealing its gaping, dusty jaw, the scream reverberated in his ...
He covered his ears with his hands, trying to block out the clash of arms and the screams of wounded men, and closed his eyes so he would not see the ground churned into bloody mud by the combatants’ feet. When the Black Prince had called for men to fight the French, Curterne had been proud to ra...
There was no question of listening to any tales of the three deadly sins that still remained out of the seven. Why, to do so, the band of listeners would have had to stay awake and attentive until the sun was rising once more on the other side of the sky! Laurence promised that there would be ple...
Its head was canted towards where Geraint sat a few feet away on the grassy slope. The creature was so still it might have been carved out of stone apart from the tiny pulse that throbbed on the underside of its silver-grey neck. The lizard, about the length of a man’s han...