He by James LaFond

Gilgamesh: Into the Face of Time

Unearth the copper box, upon which is inscribed: Gilgamesh, for this is He. Unlock it. Open the lid. Take out the tablet of lapis lazuli. Read. Discover how He suffered the sorrows of the accursed and how he likewise knew the boons of the blessed. Read of the trials and triumphs of Gilgamesh.

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Our Captain by James LaFond

The tale of Bernal Diaz’ experience as a junior officer of three successive expeditions into the frightfully human unknown continues, with the account of Juan de Grijalva’s discovery of the Mexican Empire.

While Bernal and the men obviously loved the brave and forthright Francisco Hernandez de Cordoba, who died of his wounds after the expedition to the Yucatan, and later showed an awed reverence for the world-breaking figure of Hernan Cortez, every episode in Bernal’s account of the expedition that brought the Mexico of Montezuma into contact with the ruthlessly cunning mind of Cortez, gives the reader the sense that the man referred to as ‘Our Captain,’ ‘The General’ and ‘Our Commander’ was a soldier’s soldier—a man as brave as his slain predecessor, who cared about his men more than gain, a man a terrified soldier could count on when the arrows began to fly.

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A Hoodrat Halloween by James LaFond

Around a Spectral Fire All Hallowed Eve, 2015

At the crossing of two ancient paths three bums of the elder kind sit around a time-painted iron drum burning with a bluish fire, reclining on castoff couches under an inky, starless autumn sky. Where the footpath of hobo kind crosses the railroad tracks that likewise saw the daily passage of relics along its way, three men discuss that most accursed night as it approaches.

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A Sickness of the Heart by James LaFond

One of humankind’s greatest and most dramatic cultural extinction events unfolded some 500 years ago when a band of ruthless adventurers, under the leadership of a rogue lawyer, outwitted scheming colonial politicians and blood thirsty cannibal warriors, and out worked a hostile environment in their bid to take down an alien nation. In this adaptation of The Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Diaz the author stays true to the old conquistador’s fighter’s view of campaigning in exotic lands beyond the boundaries of The Known World. Part One tells the story of the ill-fated Expedition Of Francisco Hernandez De Cordoba, a little known prelude to the Cortez Expedition, and provides a critical guide and summary of additional reading material for the Conquistador Period.

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Hurt Stoker by James LaFond

Since Stonewall Jackson’s defeat of Meade, and the capture and lynching of Lincoln, The South had, ever so gradually, adapted to modern mores. Since The Negro Bond Act of 1898, The Act of Segregation of 1934, and The Negro Incivility Act of 1971, lynching had become among the rarest of events. Now, on this fine evening, as Dixie Day draws to a close in the sleepy town of Hawthorne Maryland, Whiff Gleason has the misfortune of being waylaid by three Pennsylvania boys in a pickup, intent on asserting their superiority south of the Mason Dixon Line, where they suppose it will be appreciated.

Most men would plead, beg mercy, say prayers to the Lord Above, or whisper a word to The Dear Departed. But not Whiff Gleason. Whiff knows that there is one incontrovertible truth in life: that there is a potential profit to be made from any situation, no matter how bad it might seem. Now all he has to do is figure out how these three rednecks are going to pay for his next French-tailored silk suit.

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The Jericho Bone by James LaFond

The Jericho Bone is the second edition of the historical horror novel, An Arabian Terror Tale. covering the events of the Egyptian famine of 1201.

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An Arabian Terror Tale: Fruit of The Deceiver Omnibus Edition by James LaFond

An Arabian Tale combines parts one and two of Fruit of the Deceiver with added content.  An Arabian Terror Tale is a historical horror novel, based on the events of the Egyptian famine of 1201.

In the year 1201, in the midst of the worst famine in recorded history, the adults of Egypt waged a war of extermination upon its children. Nearly every child of one of the wealthiest and militarily secure nations on earth, was hunted, captured, killed, and then eaten, by strangers, parents, and grandparents. Though the poor had nothing else to eat but their young and their dead, the wealthy engaged in child-eating—as well as the gourmet preparation of overweight people—as a culinary art. The travelling doctor, Abd al-Latif, left a detailed, yet reluctant, account of this year of grisly feasting. This is his story. This omnibus edition includes the novella Fruit of The Deceiver, the novel Forty Hands of Night, the never before published vignette Seeds of The Deceiver, and the short The Journal of Abd al-Latif.

An Arabian Terror Tale

Parts one and two were previously described here and here, as well as the earlier combined volume here.

Black & Pale: Fruit of The Deceiver Omnibus Edition by James LaFond

Black & Pale is the collection of Fruit of the Deceiver and Forty Hands of Night in a single volume.

In the year 1201, in the midst of the worst famine in recorded history, the adults of Egypt waged a war of extermination upon its children. Nearly every child of one of the wealthiest and militarily secure nations on earth, was hunted, captured, killed, and then eaten, by strangers, parents, and grandparents. Though the poor had nothing else to eat but their young and their dead, the wealthy engaged in child-eating—as well as the gourmet preparation of overweight people—as a culinary art. The travelling doctor, Abd al-Latif, left a detailed, yet reluctant, account of this year of grisly feasting. This is his story. This omnibus edition includes the novella Fruit of The Deceiver, the novel Forty Hands of Night, the never before published vignette Seeds of The Deceiver, and the short The Song of Jeannot.

See the previous posts for each book:

Fruit of the Deceiver

Forty Hands of Night

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Black & Pale

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Forty Hands of Night by James LaFond

Forty Hands of Night continues the historical horror novel, Fruit of the Deceiver, based on the Egyptian famine of 1201.

In the year 1201, in the midst of the worst famine in recorded history, the adults of Egypt waged a war of extermination upon its children. Nearly every child of one of the wealthiest and militarily most secure nations on earth, was hunted, captured, killed, and then eaten, by strangers, parents, and grandparents. Though the poor had nothing else to eat but their young and their dead, the wealthy engaged in child-eating—as well as the gourmet preparation of overweight people—as a culinary art. The travelling doctor, Abd al-Latif, left a detailed, yet reluctant, account of this year of grisly feasting. Forty Hands of Night is the conclusion of his story.

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Forty Hands of Night

See the earlier post for part 1:

Fruit of the Deceiver

Forty Hands of Night is also included in The Jericho Bone.

Fruit of the Deceiver by James LaFond

Fruit of the Deceiver is a historical horror novel set during the Egyptian famine of 1201.

From October 1200 until August 1201, the worst famine in Egyptian history starved the nation beyond the bounds of humanity. For months the children of this ancient land were devoured by adults. When children became scarce, rich and poor alike turned their knives on the elderly, the fat, and the slow. One man, the travelling physician Abd al-Latif, was practicing medicine at the epicenter of this cannibal holocaust and left us an account of one of mankind’s darkest times. Fruit of The Deceiver is his story.

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Fruit of the Deceiver

Fruit of the Deceiver is also available as part of The Jericho Bone.