Terrifying Medieval Tales of Blood Lust & Sorcery to Punish Mischievous Children of Noble Birth

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Perhaps they'd been discovered posing the corpses of plague victims inappropriately for the amusement of their friends or caught once more sipping wine from father's codpiece behind the stables; who can say? What </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>is</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> certain is that as penance for their misdeeds the misbehaving children of nobility would have been subjected to the reading of a gruesome bedtime tale-one calculated to lace their fleeting slumber with ghastly soul-twisting nightmares.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>From the deliciously dark imagination of W. Michael Lyngstad comes a hand-picked collection of fourteen poetic tales of murky mayhem; each with a twist dreadful enough to terrify even the most hardened offspring of medieval aristocracy: tough kids who roasted marshmallows at witch burnings and lived in a brutal world of war pestilence and no Instagram filters.</span></p><p></p>