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Wednesday 23 October 2019

Christianity?

I read the first edition if The Eve of St Eligius. Nearly all of the stories were good but I couldn't help noticing that many of them were written from a CHRISTIAN viewpoint - like Dream Honeymoon for instance: surely a succubus is a demon lifted straight from the Christian Bible? But the story that convinced me I must be right was The Contract of One Thousand. In this you have the hero saying 'In those days I was very firmly a non-believer...'

Tuesday 22 October 2019

The Eldritch Collections

The Eve of St Eligius #1
Wish Man's Wood # 2

       The Eldritch                 Collections
                                  by

           Tom East


                                           A NEW edition of the first collection, The Eve of St Eligius, is available from 1st November, 2019. The second collection, Wish Man's Wood, appears on 30th November, 2019. Click HERE for more information.

Sunday 13 October 2019

Eldritch: Meaning

ELDRITCH’ is a word of uncertain origin. Nowadays it means ‘otherworldly’ in a general sense. However, it probably derives from the Germanic ‘elf reich’, reich meaning realm –i.e. ‘the realm of the elves’. See more about ABRACADABRA AND OTHER MAGIC WORDS by clicking HERE.