Well since schools back in, around these parts anyway, and Forever Richard is about to be re-released upon the masses, being currently out-of-print no matter what Amazon claims, I think there should be "required" reading as a prelude to Forever Richard. This required reading will definitely be a nice prelude to Cyn No More as well. So I suggest Robert Kirk's, The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns & Fairies!
"Late in the seventeenth century, Robert Kirk, an Episcopalian minister in the Scottish Highlands, set out to collect his parishioners' many striking stories about elves, fairies, fauns, dopplegangers, wraiths and other beings of, in Kirk's words " a middle nature betwixt man and angel. " For Kirk these stories constituted strong evidence of the reality of a supernatural world, existing parallel to ours, which he passionately believed, demanded exploration as much as the New World across the seas.
Robert Kirk was the seventh son of James Kirk, minister of Aberfoyle . . . Kirk published the first Gaelic translation of the Psalms and oversaw the preparation of the first romanized version of the Gaelic Bible . . . "
. . . that Richard's father Meri has a copy of? Well, now that is interesting. But equally as interesting is the fact that the half-werewolf Brendan carries with him the knife of the Akedah or rather the knife biblical Abraham used to "almost" slay his son Issac with. Rumor claims it has the power to slay vampires.
Oh yes, Forever Richard is quite the read as well! September will be here before you know it. Make sure you get your copy from Black Bed Sheet Books! Republished and a little different than the original version published by The Writers Cafe Press.
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