To Punish Mischievous Children of Noble Birth
W. Michael Lyngstad
Author
"Game of Thrones meets Black Mirror!"
(Reader On-The-Go)
"A Folk Horror MEGA-piece"
(Bath & Wells Publishing)
"If Shakespeare had watched The Evil Dead before
writing Macbeth ... this !"
(The Felonius Spunk)
New Releases
Terrifying Medieval Tales of
Blood, Lust & Sorcery
Enter the age of mermaids, mages, devils, dragons, chivalry and alchemy. From the macabre mind of W. Michael Lyngstad comes a curated collection of fourteen gruesomely poetic tales with a terrifying twist, gathered from the archives of European courts, bardic songbooks, and local lore— each nightmare-inducing yarn written with one unifying purpose: to terrify the misbehaving sons and daughters of the highborn at bedtime. Kids, who, unlike our own delicate TikTok-dancing flowers, used an axe to cut their birthday cakes, and sat front row at witch burnings to roast marshmallows.
Coming May 2025
To Punish Mischievous Children of Noble Birth
Terrifying Medieval Tales of
Blood, Lust & Sorcery II
To Punish Mischievous Children of Noble Birth
What would you do if you wrote another book while waiting for your first book to be edited? And what if this new book— written between frantic calls from your agent begging you to dial down the volence and depravity—was not only AWESOME but WAY more violent and depraved? Would you sit back and watch as your first book falls 999 places short of the #1 spot on The New York Times Best Seller list? Or would you release the second installment right alongside the first, in what is arguably a blatant, uninspired effort to cross-promote both books and cash in?
Yes.
Coming June 2025
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A masterful journey
into middle-age
macabre.
Read It 4 Real
The twists in the tales were Twilight Zone terrific!
Book-A-Look
I soiled my armor
I was so scared!
Brave Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-
Brave-As-Sir-Lancelot
From the macabre mind of
W. Michael Lyngstad...
Maybe they had been posing the corpses of plague victims inappropriately for the amusement of their friends, or perhaps they were caught drinking wine out of father’s codpiece behind the stables again … who knows?
What we can be sure of is that, as penance for their offenses, their wetnurse would have been charged with reading the misbehaving children of nobility a gruesome bedtime story to ensure their few hours of restless sleep would be peppered with horrific, trauma-inducing nightmares. From the macabre mind of W. Michael Lyngstad comes two books, each with fourteen twisted tales terrible enough to scare the wayward sons and daughters of the highborn. Kids who, unlike our own delicate flowers, lived in a brutal world with no Snapchat filters, where everyone shared the same pronouns:
Kill/ Or Be Killed!
I did it again!
Brave Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-As-Sir-Lancelot
Publishing
"Two Books, each with 14 twisting tales that redefine the modern Folk Horror Genre."
That Which Walks in
Hailsham Woods
After a hectic day selling plums and apples, a market trader’s restful evening takes an unexpected turn when he notices a mysterious poem written on the wall of the local tavern. The strange verses tell of an entity that haunts the local forest at twilight. Will his determination to discredit the legend prove to be as fruitful as his wares, or will he encounter a ghost the locals claim is truly rotten to its core?
The Witchfynder
To indulge his sadistic desires, a self-proclaimed witch-killer makes his coin by torturing and murdering those he falsely accuses of being in league with the Devil, until a wrong turning on a forest trail leads him to a fateful encounter with the real thing.
Circus of the Night
An enigmatic troop of minstrels, acrobats, and side-show performers journey across the countryside on a path that seemingly coincides with the outbreak of the plague. Coincidence? The villagers at the next stop on their tour route don’t think so and decide to act on their suspicions, unaware that for circus folk, the show must go on
... even after death.
The Jacobite Lights
On All Hallows Eve, three war-weary soldiers arrive at the gates of a secluded convent seeking the nuns’ protection
from their persecutors and shelter from a brutal highland storm. What does the mysterious sisterhood expect in
return for their hospitality? For the three Jacobite refugees, the answer might be illuminating.
The Judas Chair
A professional torturer questioning his brutal career choices receives an invitation from the mysterious “Guild of Persuaders” offering to teach him a secret, painless way of extracting confessions from his victims. This new method, however, may convince him that abandoning the traditional tools of his trade is a giant “pain in the arse.”
Puffgemelt
When a harsh winter takes its fatal toll on the inhabitants of a town, their hopes of survival lie with Puffgemelt, a half-hen, half-human mutation deemed an evil aberration by the Church and shunned by the very people she’s enlisted to save.
But to provide sustenance with her unusually large eggs, Puffgemelt too must eat—and with a fowl this foul,
corn isn’t on the menu
