Lammas Night

This is my favorite novel by one of my favorite authors. A World War II spycraft novel, set during the Battle of Britain and incorporating a number of occult elements that were based on historical events, as well as the Divine Right of Kings and ritual succession and substitution and past lives. It......more

This is a re-read of a book I remember as a five-star novel, but which, coming to it again many years later, and with more mature eyes, I realize is rather flawed. The novel has three major problems which you can’t get around; you can either live with them or not. If you can turn a blind eye to them......more

It's 1940, and Britain's war against Nazi Germany isn't going well. The British Expeditionary Force has been evacuated from Dunkirk back to England, and while the evacuation was a success, it was also a retreat. Hitler is planning an invasion of Britain, and the British military and political leader......more

I finished reading Lamma’s Night about a week ago. I bought this back in '83 or '84 when it came out because I loved Kurtz’ Deryni fantasy series and it’s been waiting patiently on a shelf for me to discover it ever since. Its waiting wasn’t in vain; I’ve been trying to organize my huge pile of unre......more

Supposedly, this is a story that reflects a real happening in which several covens convened in Britain to simultaneously make a "cone of power" in hopes to send a psychic message to Adolf Hitler to warn him off any future invasion of Britain. The event supposedly happened on Lammas Night, August 2,......more