This Thing of Darkness

A Tale of Weird War Two from the Caliban Cycle

During the second World War, the Merlyn of the United Kingdom — Sir Aleister Magus, the father of Tom Caliban's mentor, Arthur Magus — is captured and imprisoned at the Dachau Concentration Camp. In turns tormented and cared for by the vampire secretly in charge of the camp, Aleister is forced to comply in order to keep a young orphan girl from the suffering a fate worse than death. Herr Mitchell and Doktor Wechselbalg are in league with a patchwork man to use Aleister's magicks to open the Satanic Ark and release the power within the ancient relic.

Is the life of one child worth the ruination of a world?

And if Aleister can't save even one child, then why is he still fighting this war?

(This volume is a special publication for the Bay Writers Fest 2025, held at the Northwest Regional Library System's Bay County (Florida) Library on October 4.)