Peter Telemark Knihy

WHEN "SETH ATHENOR" WAS BORN It is Spring 1743 and former Ensign Sacha Athenois of the French Colonial Marines has fled to New York Province, believing that he has been dubbed a traitor to French Canada. He fashions himself a new name - Seth Athenor - and a fictitious identity to go with it, as he travels to the sleepy village of Dereham. Dereham is a bucolic little hamlet, scarcely deserving the mocking nickname of "Deadham" that the children sing of in their rhymes. But Athenor is not the only one to arrive there. A creature has emerged from the western edge of the Great Dereham Swamp and is making its furtive way to the village, devouring all who cross its path. Some victims lived long enough to describe it as a werewolf. But no werewolf ever had eight legs or a human-like face with multiple eyes - eyes neither animal, reptile, nor insect, but human. It is not wandering at random but appears to have a definite destination in mind for some unguessed purpose. It has not crossed paths with Athenor - yet. But those paths appear to be on a steadily intersecting course. And as Athenor learns more and more about it, and as mounting dread grips the townsfolk, he wonders if the village will live up to its nickname - The Dwelling of The Dead. For further information about the author/other books, please visit our website: Petertelemarkbooks.com

It is winter 1754 in His Majesty's Province of New York, and an urgent summons has come to Dereham Town from the German settlement of Leichtenberg to the northwest on the Spirit River. Judge Laerte von Mardure has sent word to his brother, Dereham Mayor Ulysse von Mardure that there have been an alarming number of deaths he has tried to keep quiet - none of them natural. First, it was a half-dozen patients at the tuberculosis sanitarium in the nearby mountains, then the Mayor of Leichtenberg himself, then several tribespeople at a nearby Mohawk village. All the bodies have been drained of blood. It is suspected that a vampire is responsible - one who can crawl up walls and leap from roof to roof like some monstrous spider, and whose mocking laugh chills the blood. Ulysse agrees to come, but asks Dereham apothecary and former frontier scout, Seth Athenor, to accompany him, knowing that if a supernatural menace involved, there is no better man to confront it. The ordinary townsfolk suspect nothing, and the Christmas Garden is bright with festivities as they stroll and sing, dance and eat. Not realizing that something else is hungry, too. For further information about other books by the author and biographical details please visit our website: petertelemarkbooks.com

SETH ATHENOR RETURNS! First, there was The Witch of Death Swamp Then. its prequel, The House of Dust Now - its sequel, The Cellar in Ghost Hill It is 1752 in New York Province. Two years have passed since the hellish events in Death Swamp. Now, Seth Athenor, former frontier scout and village apothecary, has been summoned back to Droitwijk Town, the center of the evil that reared its diabolical head in The House of Dust. Two prominent citizens have gone missing in the vicinity of an ancient hill, rumored to be Chibaiswajo, the "Hill of Ghosts" of Abenaki legend. In that hill is a root cellar belonging to the missing people. But if it is merely a root cellar, why did early Dutch settlers erect a stone cross above the entrance? And why did they brick it up and fix a sturdy door there with a locking bar on the outside? It all seemed more of a prison than a root cellar. But a prison for who? Or - what?