To Punish Mischievous Children of Noble Birth
W. Michael Lyngstad
Author
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"A Folk Horror MEGA-piece"
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"If Shakespeare had watched The Evil Dead before
writing Macbeth ... this !"
(The Felonius Spunk)
Terrifying Medieval Tales of
Blood, Lust & Sorcery
To Punish Mischievous Children of Noble Birth
#1 Amazon Hot New Release
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. Tough kids who roasted marshmallows at witch burnings, surviving in a brutal world of feudalism, pestilence, and no Instagram filters.
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Coming Soon
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, despite 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.
Release date: May 2026
A masterful journey
into Middle-Ages
macabre.
Readit4Real
The twists in the tales were Twilight Zone terrific!
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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...
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 is 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 designed to lace their fleeting slumber with ghastly, soul-twisting nightmares.
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 cut their birthday cake with an axe, living in a time in history 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?
Bleat, Bleat,
The Black Goat
The nursery rhyme Baa, Baa, Black Sheep was first published in Compendium Fabularum Maleficarum Pueris, a medieval collection of children’s tales about witchcraft and the occult. Presented here unedited under its original title, Bleat, Bleat, the Black Goat, it reveals a darker truth: while sheep may offer their wool freely, the bounty of a horned beast with cloven hooves demands a far more terrible price.
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
