The Herald of Autumn: A Dark Fantasy Fairy Tale (Dreams of the Untold Age Book 1)
Book Details
Author(s)JM Guillen
PublisherIrrational Worlds
ISBN / ASINB00TM881FW
ISBN-13978B00TM881F9
Sales Rank68,973
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
September 23, 2002
The Maine Wilderness
There are things unseen in the world of men, strange things that live in the secret cracks between places. Some are hungry monstrosities that the sons of man cannot fathom.
Fortunately for the children of men, there is another, protecting us from the darkness that we cannot see.
Every year, with the death of summer, Tommy Maple, the Herald of Autumn, awakens to again wander the land. Wherever he goes, red and golden leaves follow him, and he hunts the twisted creatures in the darkness.
Tommy awakens to the taunting of a mysterious and elusive worker-of-wonders. Soon, a sinister tale unfolds- a story made from the whispering of forgotten legends that ends with a dark revelation.
A story that Tommy has always been part of, even though he didn't know it.
Far from the eyes of men is an ancient abomination, hidden from even from the Facility. As ever, Tommy pokes where he should not, and soon the hunter is the one that is hunted, chased through a misbegotten wood by a creature who seems to be little more than darkness and feckless hunger.
The behemoth is pure horror, and can unmake everything Tommy is.
As the Herald faces a foe unlike any other, will he fall to the darkness that haunts our world? Will the shadows of a lost age devour him, causing him to be reborn as one of the world's sorrows? Or can he trust the wonder-worker, a creature spun from little more than trickery, malevolence and deceit?
This story is the first listing in a series called "Dreams of the Untold Age." The second book in this series is set to appear in late 2015. This series is itself the second strand in The Paean of Sundered Dreams, a multi-genre, universe-spanning array of tales with Lovecraftian themes.
Rationality Zero
The Herald of Autumn
Collateral Damage
Handmaiden's Fury
On the Matter of the Red Hand
The Primary Protocol
Regarding Oaths and the Whispering Flame
Slave of the Sky-Captain
The Wormwood Event
The Maine Wilderness
In our world, nothing is as seems.
There are things unseen in the world of men, strange things that live in the secret cracks between places. Some are hungry monstrosities that the sons of man cannot fathom.
Fortunately for the children of men, there is another, protecting us from the darkness that we cannot see.
Every year, with the death of summer, Tommy Maple, the Herald of Autumn, awakens to again wander the land. Wherever he goes, red and golden leaves follow him, and he hunts the twisted creatures in the darkness.
This Autumn, however, is different from those in the past.
Tommy awakens to the taunting of a mysterious and elusive worker-of-wonders. Soon, a sinister tale unfolds- a story made from the whispering of forgotten legends that ends with a dark revelation.
A story that Tommy has always been part of, even though he didn't know it.
Far from the eyes of men is an ancient abomination, hidden from even from the Facility. As ever, Tommy pokes where he should not, and soon the hunter is the one that is hunted, chased through a misbegotten wood by a creature who seems to be little more than darkness and feckless hunger.
The behemoth is pure horror, and can unmake everything Tommy is.
As the Herald faces a foe unlike any other, will he fall to the darkness that haunts our world? Will the shadows of a lost age devour him, causing him to be reborn as one of the world's sorrows? Or can he trust the wonder-worker, a creature spun from little more than trickery, malevolence and deceit?
This story is the first listing in a series called "Dreams of the Untold Age." The second book in this series is set to appear in late 2015. This series is itself the second strand in The Paean of Sundered Dreams, a multi-genre, universe-spanning array of tales with Lovecraftian themes.
For those who wish to read all our Irrational tales, in their proper order, that order is included here.
Coming in 2015! "The Telling of Black-Horn Jack."
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