Medieval Noir

The Black Death is only the beginning of Aethelburg’s nightmare. When Dr. Alaric Kael investigates the disappearance of a noble girl, he unearths the horrifying agenda of the Brethren of the Second Dawn, a zealous death cult. They preach that the plague is not a curse, but a "Great Transformation" – a holy fire meant to dissolve individual minds into a terrifying hive consciousness via a heretical text called the Codex Anima. Caught between a ruthless lord who wants to weaponize the disease for control and a fanatic who seeks to erase humanity itself, Alaric must confront a madness more...

Some ground is older than the names we give it. Some knowledge is not written down because writing is not what it requires. Sanguis Sanctorum — Blood of the Saints: The Codex is part of the Dark Sacred Series Scripture arc — a mythological manuscript set across medieval Europe, tracing the movement of a single transmission through four carriers over half a century. It begins in 1282, in an unnamed village in the low country, where a shepherd's assistant places his foot on a limestone step and stops. Not because anything happens. Because something becomes present that was not present ...

When a corpse turns up at his favorite tavern, Crispin Guest-disgraced knight turned detective - begins an inquiry, but the dead man turns out to be a Templar knight, an order thought to be extinct for 75 years, charged with protecting a certain religious relic which is now missing. Before he can begin to investigate, Crispin is abducted by shadowy men who are said to be minions of the French anti-pope.

VITA SANGUINIS: THE CODEX is a philosophical play in five acts, set in the Languedoc of southern France during the final years of the Albigensian Crusade. It is the companion book to the album VITA SANGUINIS by LN. The year is 1243. The institution has been burning its way north for thirty years. YSABEL — a Cathar perfecta — is walking toward Montségur. The road passes through a dying man in a cave, a burned house, a standing stone in a forest clearing, an inquisition chamber, and a field of frost where the fire is already laid. This is not a history play. It is a theology staged ...

A philosophical manuscript in five chapters. A condemned medieval text. The diagram that did not open — it answered. The Scripture the Church Burned First: The Codex moves through the Liber Luporum and the annotators who marked its margins, tracing what happens when the correspondence begins and the protocol turns out not to be the point.

Paris, 1891. The novelist Durtal is writing a biography of Gilles de Rais — Marshal of France, companion of Joan of Arc, and one of the most prolific child-murderers in the history of the medieval world. It is difficult material, and Durtal finds it difficult to work: contemporary Paris, with its smug materialism, its comfortable mediocrity, and its contempt for anything beyond the immediately visible, offers him nothing he needs. Then he learns that Satanism is not merely a chapter of medieval history. It is alive, organized, and active in the drawing rooms and back streets of the Third ...

The author of the acclaimed medieval mystery A Burnable Book once again brings fourteenth-century London alive in all its color and detail in this riveting thriller featuring medieval poet and fixer John Gower—a twisty tale rife with intrigue, danger mystery, and murder. Though he is one of...

“My favorite Leonard book….He writes the way Hammett and Chandler might write today, if they sharpened their senses of ironic humor and grew better ears for dialogue.” —Dallas Morning News “The best writer of crime fiction alive.” —Newsweek Dangerously eccentric characters...

Le serveur est hors ligne. La guerre est lancée. L'hiver s'est abattu sur Eisenwald. Le blocus étouffe la vallée, les réfugiés meurent de faim et l'Empereur est brisé. Mais Nia von Eisenwald en a fini de jouer la défense. Traumatisée par une agression brutale dans la capitale et dépouillée de ses illusions, Nia a effacé la jeune fille qu'elle était. À sa place se tient la Baronne de Fer : une commandante froide et calculatrice qui considère les vies humaines comme des variables et la guerre comme une énigme logique à résoudre. Pendant que l'usurpateur Cassian réécrit les ...

On appelle traditionnellement « peste noire » le moment paroxystique de la deuxième pandémie de peste, qui se diffuse en Europe à partir de 1347. Elle constitue à ce jour la plus grande catastrophe démographique de l'histoire de l'humanité. Car la peste met à l'épreuve ce que peut l'histoire dès lors qu'elle se montre accueillante à l'apport de toutes les sciences du passé, y compris lorsqu'elles fouillent les archives du vivant et celles de la Terre. Elle fut, historiquement, une mise à l'épreuve de la capacité des pouvoirs et des sociétés humaines à faire face à la mort de masse.

Something deadly is lurking in the swampy marshes of Moody Bog. For Kylie Strange, it just means more deaths she's responsible for since she's the one who accidentally unleashed a Pandora's box of horrors. She opened the Booke of the Hidden, and now she must do everything she can to close it for good, taking on every monster it releases with the help of the local coven. This time, the Booke has unleashed not one but two demons on the village. With her attention divided, Kylie and her coven of Wiccans are open to attack. But those aren't the only demons on Kylie's mind. 

Conte épique de vengeance. Avec une narration brutale et des scènes grotesques, il nous plonge dans l'agonie de son personnage après une bataille médiévale. Un regard profond sur le désir froid du cœur humain qui saisit la première occasion de prendre sa revanche.

Dans Le Gardien des Highlands, l'historienne Elena MacKenzie se retrouve transportée dans l'Écosse médiévale, où sa connaissance de la magie ancienne pourrait décider du destin d'une forteresse... et de son cœur. Quand l'amour naît avec le prince-guerrier Calain, ils devront affronter la trahison, les prophéties et le prix à payer pour réécrire le destin dans cette romance écossaise épique qui traverse les siècles.