Round the Fire Stories Chapter 1 - The Leather Funnel
In which a curious leather funnel bearing mysterious engravings and a marquis’s heraldic crown becomes the key to an enigmatic connection between dreams and historical suffering, revealed through the ...
11 Elo 29min
Round the Fire Stories Preface
In which the author sets forth his intention to gather together a selection of tales marked by the grotesque and the terrifying, suitable for reading by the fire’s glow on a winter’s night. With a gen...
11 Elo 1min
The White Company Chapter 38 - Of the Home-coming to Hampshire
In which two comrades, lately returned from the hardships of foreign war, traverse the familiar fields of Hampshire and encounter the poignant consequences of battle upon those left behind. Amidst cha...
10 Elo 20min
The White Company Chapter 37 - How the White Company came to be Disbanded
In which the White Company faces a dire and sanguinary struggle upon a rugged Cantabrian hill, their mettle tested against fierce Spanish and Breton adversaries in a desperate and prolonged fight. Ami...
10 Elo 21min
The White Company Chapter 35 - How Sir Nigel Hawked at an Eagle
In which Sir Nigel Loring and his band of English archers traverse the rugged and barren table-lands of Navarre to spy upon the vast Spanish and French armies gathered in camp, employing cunning and p...
9 Elo 29min
The White Company Chapter 36 - How Sir Nigel Took the Patch from his Eye
In which the valiant Company finds itself encamped in a mist-shrouded mountain pass, receiving both news of kin and the approach of a formidable enemy host, compelling them to prepare for a trial of a...
9 Elo 31min
The White Company Chapter 34 - How the Company Made Sport in the Vale of Pampeluna
In which the White Company, encamped near their allies, engage in lively contests of archery and crossbow marksmanship, contrasting the virtues and merits of the long-bow and the arbalest with spirite...
8 Elo 22min
The White Company Chapter 33 - How the Army made the Passage of Roncesvalles
In which the Duke of Lancaster leads a large and valiant army through the perilous mountain pass of Roncesvalles, their passage marked by solemn reflection on the changed nature of war and the grand a...
8 Elo 19min
