Bøker av Neil Kay

In the tumultuous year 1190 AD, Elric is known as many things: a thug, a thief, a bully, a bigot, a murderer-a truly despicable piece of gallows bait. The people of York have long yearned for respite from his reign of terror and receive it when Elric takes the cross and joins King Richard's Crusade to the Holy Land. Elric isn't going alone; after an unforgivable act of violence on the grounds of York Castle, a discorporated demon, deprived of its body in a fierce battle fought over a century prior, manages to possess Elric and give him a mission. Elric and the demon, now sharing the same body, journey through the cities of the Mediterranean en route to the Holy Land, causing carnage wherever they land. Along the way, they encounter a diverse cast of characters, including Saracen warriors, a world-weary knight drowning his sorrows, a skilled Nubian assassin, a mysterious Cypriot princess, and fellow outcasts from York. But when the enigmatic secret society known as the Lost Hunt dispatches its own agent to the Holy Land, Elric finds himself in an unlikely and unwilling alliance. Their quests converge on a single, coveted prize: the Chalice. A Chalice with powers of restoration and resurrection. In the hands of Elric and his demonic companion, this ancient relic, now in a new and unexpected form, could bring about catastrophe on an unprecedented scale, endangering the lives of countless souls.

A man must eat. The year is 1070. Frithger, a former housecarl for the defeated King Harold, is charged with solving a series of grisly murders in the ancient city of York. The North has been devastated by King William's Harrying. Every plant and grain burned, every well and river poisoned. The northerners stripped of sustenance. Tens of thousands starved to death. The city now fears a mad butcher is within its walls. Frithger is in a race against time to find the killer before the King's return to the city. He is aided and hindered by a collection of the city's characters; a deranged Norman torturer, a degraded knight, a limbless former soldier forced to beg, two streetwise prostitutes, and a Welsh wise woman who uses the practice of sin-eating to see through the eyes of others. Fearing that the Harrying has forced a nest of vampires into the city, two members of the secret demon-hunting society, The Lost Hunt, arrive in the city to complicate matters. Frithger and his crew of misfits track the vampires as well as a bloodthirsty English rebel frenzied with murderous rage at the Normans, but there is a third candidate for the killer. Someone who survived the Harrying for all those hungry months by doing whatever he had to, someone who enters York with unnatural tastes and a never-ending hunger. After all, a man must eat.

The Dead Walk... In the late 8th century 250 years since evil was vanquished in the battle of Londinium, the England-to-be is a group of squabbling kingdoms, their undefended coastlines too tempting to the Norsemen. A conflicted former monk and a deeply pious fisherwoman released from slavery join forces with a Saxon king in exile eager to claim his throne, a Saracen noblewoman hostage desperate to escape captivity, and a Celtic demon hunter fulfilling his life's work to fight the new menace carried under the decks of the Norse longboats. Corpses that can walk, corpses with superhuman strength, and corpses that can turn others into monstrosities like them.The dead walk. Their name is Draugr.

Dark Age Demons - A Historical Horror Thriller.Britain, 540 AD. Britons, Saxons, Jutes and Angles war with each other for land. They have no idea they are all just meat to the monsters that dwell in the abandoned Roman city of Londinium.The monster's leader, a former Roman soldier turned demon, sends his creatures across the land to forage for food and increase their numbers.When one of these creatures destroys their village, two brave Saxon sisters and their stubborn but determined brother form an unlikely team-up with a Briton bandit who has knowledge of the island's darkness. Saxon newcomers from the old country and a Briton-born slave, raised and abused by Saxons complete the fearless squad.Vampires, shapeshifters, and unnatural beasts chase and confront the heroes forcing them to turn their attention to the smoldering ruins of Londinium.

Accessible to the modern reader, this is an introduction to the poetry of Ebenezer Elliott: probably South Yorkshire's most celebrated poet.Neil and Steven Kay have done us a favour. Anyone interested in the poetry of South Yorkshire should make a friend of Elliott. Forgive him some flannel and rough edges, but take him to heart for framing a verse that puts the fight against poverty and oppression at its core, that celebrates South Yorkshire landscapes and tongues, and always displays the courage of its convictions. Even Wordsworth said after Elliott's death, "None of us have done better than he has in his best." - Ray Hearne