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  • The Nymph Queen

    Graveholt Castle stood in suffocating silence, entombed within the swollen embrace of a newborn woodland. Great oaks, ancient and immovable, barred the crumbling walls, preventing passage in or out. They… Read more

  • The Hollow Man of Hearthorn Hill

    A famine had cursed a town where a widowed baker lived. The suffering was so severe that the earth itself seemed poisoned, and even the smallest sharings of grain had… Read more

  • The Wild Hunt; Army of the Living Dead

    The country had been left in ruin by a war that came unanticipated. Fields once lush with crops and wild growth were now muddy and barren, fertilised only by the… Read more

  • Bannik; The Haunting of the Banya

    I was offered a job that spring; an opportunity I gratefully accepted, desperate to ease the strain of my current circumstances. My town was a bustling yet forgotten place, tucked… Read more

  • The Fetch; Irish Doppelgänger 

    My days as a scholar had scarcely embarked before I encountered a sorcerer along my travels. The destination I sought lay deep within the thick of the mountains, far from… Read more

  • The Scarecrow of Borrowed Faces

    Isolde lived on a farm that was neighbour to an old, whistling field. How strange it seemed, that though the surrounding land grew lush and full of bloom, the field… Read more

  • Umibōzu; the Sea Monks

    Off the coast of home lay a scattering of islands, seldom visited and rarely spoken of by our people, who favoured the safety of our familiar mainland. Perhaps they did… Read more

  • The Nachzehrer’s Curse

    It was on a cold Christmas Eve when tragedy crept into a snow coated town. Amongst the quiet kisses in homes that flickered with laughter, the clink of cutlery at… Read more

  • Plague Maiden

    Wulfram had been chasing the taste of adventure when he arrived at the old village. In his future loomed an arranged marriage, and the inheritance of a kingdom he did… Read more

  • The Wisp of Fogrest Hollow

    In a small, fog cloaked town at the edge of a marshy lake, a young fisherman named Thomas lived with his mother, Sarah. The town was buried in strange customs… Read more

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