Terrifying Medieval Tales of Blood, Lust & Sorcery to Punish Mischievous Children Noble Birth

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-one calculated 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 roasted marshmallows at witch burnings and lived in a brutal world of war, pestilence, and no Instagram filters.