The ravens come, dark wings with dark news. Thought and memory sit upon the gallows tree when the one eyed god hangs waiting. The Duckman comes…

On the 23rd a new Harvey Duckman anthology will be released ( it is available on pre-order now). fifteen new tales, from fifteen authors. Tales of a pagan past, of dark visons, of ice and blood., of axe and fury, of dreams and visions, of gods and giants, and the burning fires of the halve.

She utters words of honeyed violence to sooth the savage at her breast.

I harken to her words, but they are as nothing to me. Garbled sounds, senseless, meaningless. Words from across the whale road. Words from the lands of the cross carriers. The land where they worship the murdered god.

Her words are no more than utterances. The words of one already lost. One already half a draugr. Already half among the woken dead.