The Averoigne Legacy - by Ron Hilger & Richard Tierney (Paperback)

About the Book

Join the peasantry of Averoigne in their struggles to survive their cursed, monster-haunted homeland as they face threats ranging from ghostly cats to man-eating ogres. Tales of harpies and werewolves, witches and necromancers, await you in over two dozen new short stories and poems set in Clark Ashton Smith's famously eerie world of Averoigne.

Book Synopsis

NOT THE END OF THE STORY

The lore of Averoigne didn't end with Clark Ashton Smith. Over the decades other writers, fascinated by this "Lovecraft country" of medieval France, added their own contributions. For the first time collected together into one volume, you can read over two dozen poems and stories of Averoigne (including some never before published) by Mythos authors like DJ Tyrer, Richard Tierney, Brian McNaughton, Michael Minnis, and James Chambers. Revisit Vyônes and Périgon, meet Luc le Chaudronnier and Azédarac once again, as tales of harpies and werewolves, ogres and giants, changelings and cockatrices await you, including:

THE ORACLE OF SADOQUA by Ron Hilger
THE WEDDING OF SHEILA-NA-GOG by G. Arthur Rahman & Richard L. Tierney
THE CULT OF THE SINGING FLAME by David Reid Ross
THE DOOM OF AZÉDARAC by Ron Hilger
THE PINK FLOWER OF SAINT ZÉNOBIE by Aaron Hollingsworth
HUGH THE DISCERNING by Garnett Elliott
THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF GHOSTLY CATS by Michael Minnis
UNHALLOWED GROUND, UNHOLY FLESH by James Chambers
THE LITTLE AND THE BIG by Michael Minnis
THE PASSING OF BELZÉVUTHE by Simon Whitechapel
THE BUTCHER OF VYÔNES by Michael Minnis
BLACK ART IN VYÔNES by Keith Chapman
THE COCKATRICE OF CORDELIERS by Michael Minnis
CLOTAIRE OF THE CROSS by Colin Harker
SYMPOSIUM OF THE GARGOYLE by Simon Whitechapel
THE QUARRY by Simon Whitechapel
THE GARGOYLES OF NOTRE DAME by Matthew Baugh
THE RETURN OF THE COLOSSUS by Brian McNaughton
THE MUSE OF AVEROIGNE by Ron Hilger & Henry J. Vester III
THE FELL FÊTE by Manuel Arenas
BOUFONOULA by D.J. Tyrer
A HONEYMOON IN AVEROIGNE by Trevor O. Childers

... PLUS over a dozen poems of Averoigne by H.P. Lovecraft, DJ Tyrer, Ashley Dioses, Wade German, Cardinal Cox, Ron Shiflet and others, AND a Map of Averoigne by multiple Hugo-award winning artist Tim Kirk!

Review Quotes

"Delicious writing that transcends mere pastiche and reads like a continuation of Clark Ashton Smith's Averoigne tales."
- Amazon

"Like [Clark Ashton Smith's] own stories of Averoigne, these stories fall between medieval chronicle and fairy tale, between bitter irony and ribald jest. But while the writers of these stories have respected the boundaries set by Smith, within those boundaries they have exercised their freedom to tell their tales in their own way. And their tales are the better for it."
- Gary Myers, author of "The House of the Worm"