🏆 #1 Amazon Hot New Release (November 2025) 📈 Top 10 Amazon Bestseller in Horror Anthologies (#7) 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.“A masterful journey into Middle-Ages macabre that redefines the modern folk horror genre!”"If Shakespeare had watched The Evil Dead before writing Macbeth ... this!"Perfect for readers who • Dark folklore and folk-horror• Grim moral tales with cruel twists• Gothic and medieval-inspired fiction• Lyrical, atmospheric storytelling“A masterful journey into Middle-Ages macabre that redefines the modern folk horror genre!”"If Shakespeare had watched The Evil Dead before writing Macbeth ... this!"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 designed to lace their fleeting slumber with ghastly, soul-twisting nightmares!From the deliciously dark imagination of W. Michael Lyngstad comes a curated collection of fourteen poetic tales of murky mayhem; each with a twist dreadful enough to terrify even the most hardened offspring of medieval tough kids who roasted marshmallows at witch burnings and lived in a brutal world of war, pestilence, and no Instagram filters.A Creature of Habit (The Curious Tale of Friar Lee)- They say pregnant maidens have hearty appetites because they’re eating for two. Could the same be said of thetown friar whose vile secret lends new meaning to the term "a creature of habit”?That Which Walks in Hailsham Woods -A market trader’s evening takes an unexpected turn when he notices a mysterious poem written on the wall of a tavern. The strange verses tell of an entity that haunts the local forest at twilight. Will his determination to discredit the legend prove to be as fruitful as his wares, or will he encounter a ghost the locals claim is truly rotten to its core?The Lycan Queen- A love-struck dwarf competes for the heart of a beautiful princess, unaware of her ravenous appetite andfondness for romantic, moonlight strolls … on all fours.Bleat, Bleat, the Black Goat-The nursery rhyme Baa, Baa, Black Sheep was first published in a medieval collection of children's tales concerning witchcraft and the occult. Presented here unedited under its original title, Bleat, Bleat, the Black Goat, it reveals a darker truth long although sheep may offer their wool freely, the gifts bestowed by a horned beast with cloven hooves demand a far graver toll.Script for a Jester’s Tear- Giacomo, a jester hailed as the funniest in all the kingdom, arrives at court bearing the promise of unparalleled joy … and a chilling secret. But what terrible price must the curious pay to uncover the truth beneath the painted smile?Jacobite Lights- On All Hallows Eve, three war-weary soldiers arrive at the gates of a secluded convent seeking the nuns’ protection from their persecutors and a brutal highland storm.