Historical fiction and gothic folk-horror of the English fens
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A full-length novel. 58,000 words, twenty chapters.
December, 872. A king's courier lies dead in the shallows under a Roman pier, and the reeve wants it written a drowning.
He did not drown. His hands are black with peat from a country a day downstream. His tongue has been cut. Brother Stilfrith keeps the ford's book, and the ford is shut.
A historical murder mystery of the Anglo-Saxon fens.
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A 6,000-word short story. About 25 minutes.
870 AD. The Danes have come to the fens with fire.
When Crowland Abbey burns at dawn, a young copyist monk is trusted with two things he must never surrender: the uncorrupted body of a saint, and a sealed writ he is forbidden to read.
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About the author
Eliphas Favre is a writer and chronicler drawn to the dark, damp folklore of old Europe: its drowned fens, Roman walls, and haunted coasts. He writes atmospheric historical fiction and gothic folk-horror.
More about the authorThe Barrow Saint · Chapter I · Ash in the Water
It was a bright morning in the last week of May, 870 AD, on Crowland—an island abbey in the deep fens with no wall, because the water itself was the wall.
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