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This short story, “The Looking Men,” is the first of
many tales of a group of knights and priests called by their own tragic
destinies to battle mysterious, dark forces in a medieval world often
one shadow away from death and chaos.
Their story grows out of the myths and folktales surrounding the bubonic
plague – the Black Death – and its spread across Europe that left entire
villages dying, crops rotting in fields, animals wandering abandoned
streets, and starving survivors turning to suicide. “The Looking Men”
supposes what may have happened as people sought the cause of this new
terror, when stories of vampires, werewolves, and wandering undead
phantoms haunted the firesides even after knights and pilgrims returned
in triumph from their first Crusade to the Holy Land.
But the Looking Men know the true cause of this strange Black Death lies
not in some monster, but in a horror too strange for a child’s tale.
Theirs is an enemy that hides in the light of day and stalks its victims
from within. And the Looking Men must seek and stand against that enemy
before it spreads beyond control. |
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