Authorpreneur Dashboard – Christopher McIntosh
Master of the Starlit Grove
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Come into a world where the old gods are returning, where Odin's wolves cavort, where maenads dance, where wild imaginings become real, where the sinister mingles with the absurd. Let these stories take you there. They will leave you perceiving reality in a new light.
Book Bubbles from Master of the Starlit Grove
Summoning the Old Gods
These stories are about ancient, long-dormant deities, forces and mysterious beings breaking through into present-day reality. The longest story, "Master of the Starlit Grove", is about a child called Julian Saxon discovering that he is a natural pagan like his "wicked" ancestor Esmond Saxon, and about his defiance of the family, schoolmasters, exorcist, and brain specialist who stand in his way. In the excerpt, taken from the beginning of the story, a conversation over family lunch about the black sheep, great-great uncle Esmond, starts Julian on a long journey of self-discovery, full of strange adventures.
The Wyrde Garden and other strange tales
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
A fly changes the course of history by landing on the nose of an assassin, the Nordic gods eavesdrop on Sigmund Freud in a Vienna café, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson brave the terrors of an English garden full of demonic entitites ... These are some of the themes of this compelling collection of stories of the mythical, the magical and the macabre.
Book Bubbles from The Wyrde Garden and other strange tales
The shot that changed history ... and the one that
I have always been fascinated by the assassination in Sarajevo in 1914 that sparked off the First World War and by the thought of how the fate of the world hung on that instant when the assassin took aim. In this story a young man slips into an alternative reality where the event never happened. But can he ever return to his own world?
LEBENSBORN SPY
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Long after the end of Hitler's Reich one of its projects still casts a shadow - the chain of homes known as Lebensborn for unwanted children of German soldiers and women of the occupied countries. Now, in the Europe of the Cold War, the East German intelligence service is using ex-Lebensborn inmates as spies. In this story human love and decency struggle against blind ideology, deceit and betrayal, and win through against the odds.
Book Bubbles from LEBENSBORN SPY
A spy seeeking his mother
The idea for the story of The Lebensborn Spy came to me after reading an article about the use of ex-Lebensborn inmates as spies by the East German intelligence service. The novel is partly an exciting espionage thriller, but on a deeper level it is a story about love and decency struggling against a ruthless ideology. It is also about individuals searching for their roots and their ancestral homeland.
