The Devil's Domain

he said, ’I think I know where his ferret is hiding!’

CONCLUSION

    The Abrin seed is not a figment of the writer’s imagination. It contains a very toxic protein which causes nausea and very serious, and rapid, damage to vital organs. The seeds have a very hard coating and only become poisonous when they are chewed. This property was used in the past for trial by ordeal, particularly in Venice . The suspected persons were given paternoster peas to swallow: those whom the authorities wanted to escape were secretly warned not to chew them!

The Rose Demon

    P.C. Doherty

    In Paradise, in the glades of Eden , Eve was tempted twice: first by Lucifer. Then by Rosifer, who offered her a rose plucked from Heaven.

    Matthias Fitzosbert is the illegitimate son of the parish priest of the village of Sutton Courteny in Gloucestershire. His struggle with Rosifer, the fallen angel, the spirit he loves yet hates, strives to placate but ultimately flees from, is played out against the vivid panorama of medieval life: the fall of Constantinople; the last throes of the Wars of the Roses; the terror of witchcraft; the loneliness of the Scottish marches; the battlefields of Spain; and finally the lush jungles of the Caribbean, where the Rose Demon and Matthias meet for a final, dramatic confrontation.
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Satan’s Fire

    P. C. Doherty

    In 1303 the Old Man of the Mountain remembers back to when he nearly killed Edward of England almost thirty years before. He never forgets his prey — and now decides to release an imprisoned leper knight to avenge old grievances.

    One windswept evening a few months later two nuns are hurrying to their mother house in York when they smell the sickly odour of burning human flesh. Rounding the corner, they confront the macabre sight of a man being hungrily consumed by a roaring fire.

    News of this grisly death meets Edward I of England as he arrives in York for secret negotiations with the leaders of the military Order of the Temple . His unease deepens for, as he enters the city, a would-be regicide attempts to murder him. When the assassin, wearing the livery of the Templar Order, is found dead — having been engulfed by a mysterious fire — Edward immediately enlists the help of his Keeper of the Secret Seal, Sir Hugh Corbett, to investigate.

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