A South African writer and producer based in Cape Town, Mitchell Lüthi is known for dark, atmospheric medieval horror and grimdark fantasy. Before turning to long-form fiction he worked across scripts, short stories and radio plays, and his short story 'The Bone Fields' earned an honorable mention in the 2020 L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Competition. His debut full-length novel, Pilgrim: A Medieval Horror, follows a German knight's nightmarish return from the Crusades, while his Plaguebo...
In the Name of the Worm
In the Name of the Worm
Synopsis
The Black Death has emptied half of Christendom, and its survivors grasp at salvation wherever they can find it: in the bones of dead saints, the promises of priests, or the bottom of a cup. Forged indulgences and false relics multiply on both sides of the Rhine, turning hallowed remains into mere commodities, while a new Pope in Avignon schemes to reassert control over the Holy Roman Empire. Into this rotting empire come Pierre and Remi, following a trail of murdered priests, plague-prophets, treacherous knights and stolen relics toward the heresies growing in the void left by the plague. The second story in the In the Name of the Worm series, it carries the friar and his ward from the confined dread of His Black Tongue into a wider intrigue, blending heterodox Christian and German folklore with lost gods, entombed nuns and witch-knights.
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PierreProtagonist
The Franciscan friar of His Black Tongue, drawn with his ward into an intrigue over forged relics and murdered priests across a plague-hollowed empire.
RemiProtagonist
Pierre's ward, accompanying him deeper into the heresies and corruption left in the plague's wake.
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In the Name of the WormKindle, Octo
265 pages
