Bøger af James Farrell

The War on Christmas has reached a new level.Farmer Nicholas Merriweather runs an old-fashioned country store, selling antique toys and candies and Christmas goods: and he has many strange workers, suspiciously handsome and agile.The Store is forging a Seasons Greetings Army, with Antichristmas Weapons fuelled by an ancient power, the pagan Solstice, by means of which they intend to destroy not only Christmas, but Santa himself. There is only one problem....the North Pole was conquered already by them 100 years ago, and Santa's whereabouts are unknown.In the mountains of the North Gate lies a Road, and along it are Graves, the Graves of Arheled. Arheled watches over them, and holds the portal to the North Pole. When the greetings become warcries, Santa always knows. The Elves too have weapons. Christmas weapons.The War On Christmas has begun!

The small town of Winsted is overshadowed by a strange and deep mystery, a secret involving the very nature of reality itself. For every hundred years the Road returns to earth, and must be walked, by those whom Arheled has called. Ancient, laden with wisdom and with sorrow, the eternal guardian of the Road watches from the mountain named Temple Fell outside the town and broods over the pettiness of Men. But this time is not like the other times. Darkness is stirring under the earth. The Lord of Chaos is growing stronger. The Father of Dragons walks in Winsted as man, and seeds Dragon-born among the young people, and despair seeps through the world like a fog. The Powers of the North begin to gather, as the world darkens around them, and ancient foes rise out of the earth and from under the earth; foes that can only be stymied, never stopped. For the world at last is ending. Arheled knows all this, as he gazes out at the Northeast of the New World, and wonders whether he will even find any who are capable of hearing his call, and if he does, what will happen to them. For the Road is spinning out powers into the ones he calls, and the children he speaks to grow strong and fell, and stone and trees and brooks shudder at their command. So he builds, and prepares, and as he constructs on many levels of being the Five Fortresses to hold the North against the final onset of the Darkness from out of the South, he shakes his head in sorrow, for he knows it is all in vain. Strong is the Road, and stronger is its Warden, buit strongest of all is the Rider of the Darkness. In the end, the fortresses will fall, and Arheled will be smashed under the feet of the Dragons, and the Gates of the North that lie buried beneath the swampy meadow two miles north of Winsted, will be taken, and Chaos will use them to open the Gates of Hell. And when he does this, no power less that God Himself will be able to destroy him. But he will not go down without a fight. He will rouse the very trees of the earth and the hills of the North against the Rider, and the Powers of the North will be aided by the unforseen abilities of mortal Men. All this lingers in his ancient mind as he whispers in dreams and speaks eerie jesting riddles to the six young people he has selected, as a Fell Winter grips Winsted. This is the Seventh Volume of Arheled, and the first volume of the World's End trilogy. Justine is left behind when her family goes on a camping trip, and hears strange voices in her dreams. A peculiar but interesting foreign couple make her acquaintence, telling her stories of Finnish myths involving the master craftsman and wisdom-singer Ilmarinen. But then other powers begin to be aware she is listening to them in her sleep, and they hunt her. Not only the sinister Frost-giant Utgard-Loki, but also the Dragon-born. As an unnatural blizzard descends on Halloween night in 2011, Justine and a woman of living metal flee to Ilmarinen.

When the Drawers of Vond, the magical life of the world, become corrupted, there is no recourse save to the Cardinal; and when he too is corrupt, the only recourse is to the Pope. And he, he is in another world, accessible only by an enchanted Window, and that Window is held shut by the Cardinal. Then the Cardinal and the Drawers committed a great sin, and to increase their power to magic, they diverted the Lost River.

A mysterious wizard named Melcifer insinuates his way into the counsels of the renewed Mages, who chafe under being restricted to the ancient rules of the Order of Marvenda. The Knight distrusts him, but the Mages, and soon the King, are eating out of his hand. And then he counsels them to use dragons as a source of magic, and so deep does he hold them that Galan King shrinks not from sacrificing his own daughter.Then Melcifer tells him of a powerful King in the Valley of the West, a foe of Dragons, at the head of a new Order of Knights. Riding on dragons, Galan King lays seige to the Valley....only to find the King is the very Child he set free and who crowned him over Marvenda.Beset by dragon-lust and by old love, Galan, torn, betrays the King his old friend.

"I also passed girls in their usual packs of two and three, giving wall-eyed and slightly freaked stares at this fantastic phenomenon passing like a spectre through their midst. I really wish I could have seen that from outside myself, the green college town and the classy old buildings of Gothic stone, and the classy and decently fashionable bohemians and "normally-casual" very carefully dressed up pretty girls and pretty boys walking between classes, and through it all comes the Wild Brown Pilgrim from the South with his fantastically overladen ass of a bicycle and his shaggy appearance and long grim face. I tell you, movies live for such moments."Authors must do strange things. When constructing mythologies, it is essential to know the land they take place in. Accordingly author James Farrell here chronicles (and enriches) the fabulous tale of his bike expedition across New England in quest of the seven Mad Rivers, the earthly footprints of the mystical river Daslenga. Arheled's eerie voice punctuates his progress frequently, and ancient tales and legends surface along his path, and archetypes from medieval tales keep crossing his path. Narrated with humor and profoundity, this peculiar adventure reveals a side of New England no others can see.

This historical appendix to the Southford Chronicles contains many details not given in the other books, such as the Cemetery Notes, the Family Trees of Southford, and sundry antique sketches of town buildings. Included also are topographic maps of the area and handrawn maps by Archie the Explorer. This volume, I regret to say, is not the one the Town of Southford commissioned me to write, lacking the town anecdotes and land records, as that one was a limited printing and the funds allocated for expense have been exhausted. Accordingly conversion of the above lacking elements may have to await a less expensive format. Signed, the Southford Historian James Farrell

The Knights have increased in number, and the peasantry of Marvenda own either Mage or Knight: but Galan desires to be of neither. The Mages will not tolerate free men, and so they go again to war, to exterminate their rivals the Knights, once merely part of the same Order of Marvenda. Calling up black lava, they not only destroy the Knights but Marvenda. The last Knight, Galan and a Mage go into the west to seek the Child concealed in spells who holds the key to the peace of Marvenda. But to unlock him, they will need a honeycomb of pure gold, the myrrh of the Underkeeper with which he annoints the Dead, and the Censer of the Franken which holds fire stolen from heaven. And when they obtain these, to pass the deciets of the Valley, the Dragon of Eld is compelled to send his heart before them like a star in the air. But at the end, the Father of Dragons waits, to consume the Child he has long hunted....

The Land of Mellenia, an ancient world once filled with magical kingdoms and silver-haired knights, is now a complex high-tech civilization. But when the last of the Silver-haired decays into a sex-obsessed whippersnapper, Father Time himself drags him back through the ages, showing him the strife of the Two Queens. The Queen of Heaven and the Queen of Earth strive; all down the ages they have fought, and when the Sleeper wakes, over his body shall their last battle be decided.Buy the famous Arheled series now! Arheled: On Temple Fell: https: //www.amazon.com/Arheled-Temple-Fell-James-Farrell/dp/1506159427/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1476209475&sr=1-2&keywords=Arheled%3A+On+Temple+FellKindle: https: //www.amazon.com/Arheled-Temple-Fell-James-Farrell-ebook/dp/B00SJEPWNO/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1476209475&sr=1-1&keywords=Arheled%3A+On+Temple+Fell

In this classic fairy tale, the Prince Nicholas finds that the stories his bodyguard Sir Frielhem tells are only too real. Weird tales of dragons and stone-giants and hearts of lands....and now Frielhem is dead at the hand of that very dragon, and an army of Stone-men is advancing out of Dark Mountain to invade Nordomba and find the gem that commands the entire country. Nicholas, fleeing from the Witch-Queen, descends beneath the earth with the newly freed Stone-king, a Cyclopean stone-giant twelve feet high, to find the Crossbow at the Heart of the Earth that alone can slay the Witch-Queen.

John Paddock does not tell anyone who his father is, but all of Old Street knows perfectly well he was not a Paddock. The haunted house on the hill above the village stands silent and seemingly deserted; where, the men of Old Street wonder, is the sorcerer Jayhaya, and what devilry is he up to in the outside world? When a cute college thrill-seeker comes to him seeking scary stories of the awful family of Mather, John and his cousin Thalia find themselves fighting a spectre from Castle House: and Thalia is slain. Not long after, John begins to hear her voice in his head, advising him on how to court the cute thrill-seeker. But on their first date, a walk in the woods, fog descends from Castle House, and wildered in the woods they find themselves entering the one place on earth that the son of Jayhaya does not want to be. Castle House itself, on Halloween night.

The land of Marvenda is a peaceful place, open grassy fells where sheep graze, and villages of peasants who own the Mages, and the abandoned castle of the long-vanished Knights. The Mages destroyed them, so that no one would contest their rule over Marvenda. But when in defiance of Custom a young couple seeks out the Knights and enters Gurthold, the last Knight restores the Order and claims them from the vengeful Mages. The Mages should not try to stamp out this last spark of the second Order of Marvenda, for if they do then the avenging ghosts of the ancient Knights will burst out of their tombs.

Aaron Endhill dwells in the suburbs outside Bialowieza Forest, a land of seeming placidity and common woodland. Even if it is the oldest forest in Poland. His new friend, a strange girl with green hair, tells him it is more. That to see it properly, he must unlock his imagination.When he does, he sees the Forest as it really is. And it knows that he can see it. His imagination has effects on the physical world, and forms as a sword of blue flame in his hand; his reflexes enhance; things that he imagines can have practical effect.This is the only thing that saves his life when the Emissaries of the Ancient Evil, masquerading normally as bushes and squirrels, break into his house to destroy him.The only way to save himself, is to quest deep into the Forest, to the Iron Mist and the Frozen Lands, where he must unlock the Enchanted Portrait that alone can destroy the Ancient Evil.

He is seven feet tall, has the strength of ten men, and operates on a short fuse. His name is Farmer Otto Hercules Giles III, of Southford. Here are several anecdotes of the local legend, collected by me, the Historian James Farrell. One tale of a Western-style gun chase between Otto and vandals, another of the celebrated clash between Farmer Giles and the School Board, as well as his war with rival storekeepers and a personal fight with the Old Boy himself. Not to mention the time he played for the Yankees.

Here are gathered the three Tales of Marvenda. The first describes the restoration of the ancient Knights via the eruption of the avenging ghosts of the dead Knights to withstand an invasion of Mages. The second concerns the Orders of Mervenda, the Knights and the Mages. Sent into the west to seek three mystical keys of gold, a censer and the balm of the Underkeeper, a Knight and a Mage and a free Peasant unlock the mysterious Valley and free the Child: and there came to him Mages from the east. The third reveals the fall of the Two Orders. The King who unites them is seduced by dragon-lore and becomes a sorcerer, and the Mages swiftly fall into dragon-magic, and go with war against the grown Child, to betray him.

The Ancient Evil conquered the Three Realms, encasing Fairyland in eternal winter.That was 500 years ago.The denizens of Fairyland survive, packed into the huge sprawling towers of the Cidatel, the great fairy-fortress that thrusts eight thousand-foot towers up from the middle of Fairyland, so well defended by its' two Guardians that even a Greater Evil cannot breach it.Varn, a human refugeee from the rabbit-like remnants of people lurking in the winter land, knows no other life than the enchanted yet routine existence of the Cidatel. But when the magic-beanstalk elevators sprout magic beans, he and several companions consume them, and gain powers, even as the protection is breached and Grey Terrors appear inside the very citadel itself.

The Prophet burst onto the scene an already potent force, all his struggles over, his plans in place, his supers gathered. But how did he begin, and what set him on the path from being chaplain of the Superhero Agency to waging war on the federal government? In this volume, Southford Historian James Farrell relates the Prophet's rise: his receiving of new powers, his gathering of old superheros and new appearances such as Bladegaze and Rockrunner, and finally, his crippling at the hands of the most feared of all the supers, the grim Argon Podenda.

THE MEDALLIONS OF THE SEASONS BOOK 2Last year, John Frost, a teenage homeschooler and paperboy but also a Winter-lover, wished it would always be winter. This called down the Icelord, who had to be defeated by John and his friends.This year, Rebecca is given a Medallion of Summer, a mysterious and ancient relic entrusted to men. While wearing it she accidentally wishes it would always be summer. At once heat waves sweep the earth; and they show no sign of relenting. It is Endless Summer.In the Room of the Books, which turns out to be a chamber of the Library where all that is subcreated is stored, they learn that 24 Medallions of the Seasons were crafted by the Seasons' Lords to govern them: and that the Seven of Winter were stolen by the Lord of Winter, and the others scattered. Only by finding and restoring them can the Endless Summer be ended. Except there is one danger, especially to Rebecca. If she holds the Three of Summer, she will be consumed with greed, with fury, with passion, with, in short, Summer itself: she will becomeTHE SUMMERWITCH.

700 years ago, the world ended. In a blast of golden power from his Eleven Rings, Eldarendar quenched technology and slew everyone technologically inclined, upwards of billions. Eight Cities alone survived with technology and population intact. Now the Pope, ruling over Rome, has sent the Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller to see why the City of Poland has been radio silent for centuries....and why Eldarendar is threatening to destroy it if it does not change. He finds a city divided by a high fence, where men and women drove each other out, and have been separated for a hundred years, using artificial conception and artificial robots to sate their longings. But the men long for true social intercourse with women, and when the Grand Master entices a girl across the Fence, hilarious scenes ensue, for neither gender has seen the other for a hundred years.

The door swung open, and this guy walked into a bar. He wore a long cloak, and broke the neck off the bottle instead of unscrewing it. He would only say that he was looking for his wife. Tony is building a shed, when a man fades into view out of nowhere and asks his help in finding his wife. Tony aids him. He is looking for his wife, because she has run off with a rich American. He can always find her, for he is half-elven, and has powers few humans possess. He is Andmar, brother of Rockrunner, of the house of Fayblood.

I am Van Helsing. In the world where the rivers run with wine, I hunt vampire, and I hunt werewolf. This morning one bit me. I am changing, but I bear with it, for the Three Brothers insist I continue to hunt vampire. There is another named Van Helsing. They call him Professor. I do not know who he is, or why he is my double, but I must find him. But the grey place is open, and the seven tales must unite: they say I am the 7th. This London place is strange to me, and yet with Mr. Sherlock Holmes, the good Dr. Jeykll, the mysterious Sunday, the Monster, Captain Nemo, and that despicable young man Grey, we may stand a chance against vampire. Aye, even against Dracula himself.

"The world is ending, Forest, and the other side is shining through."The small town of Winsted and the ancient lake above it are overshadowed by a strange and deep mystery, a secret involving the very nature of reality itself. For every hundred years the Road returns to earth, and must be walked, by those whom Arheled has called. Ancient, laden with wisdom and with sorrow, the eternal guardian of the Road watches from the mountain named Temple Fell outside the town and broods over the pettiness of Men. Yet each century he must summon those who are wise, and teach them secrets that destroy the one who hears them, and at last reveal the great mystery of the heavens themselves and their true nature. But this time is not like the other times. Darkness is stirring under the earth. The Lord of Chaos is growing stronger. The Father of Dragons walks in Winsted as man, and seeds Dragon-born among the young people, and despair seeps through the world like a fog. The Powers of the North begin to gather, as the world darkens around them, and ancient foes rise out of the earth and from under the earth; foes that can only be stymied, never stopped. For the world at last is ending. Arheled knows all this, as he gazes out at the Northeast of the New World, and wonders whether he will even find any who are capable of hearing his call, and if he does, what will happen to them. For the Road is spinning out powers into the ones he calls, and the children he speaks to grow strong and fell, and stone and trees and brooks shudder at their command. So he builds, and prepares, and as he constructs on many levels of being the Five Fortresses to hold the North against the final onset of the Darkness from out of the South, he shakes his head in sorrow, for he knows it is all in vain. Strong is the Road, and stronger is its Warden, buit strongest of all is the Rider of the Darkness. In the end, the fortresses will fall, and Arheled will be smashed under the feet of the Dragons, and the Gates of the North that lie buried beneath the swampy meadow two miles north of Winsted, will be taken, and Chaos will use them to open the Gates of Hell. And when he does this, no power less that God Himself will be able to destroy him: and God, He sits in silence, and makes no sign, and it is e'en left to those below to defend as best as they may, that they may save their own souls out of the ruin of the worlds. But he will not go down without a fight. He will rouse the very trees of the earth and the hills of the North against the Rider, and the Powers of the North will be aided by the unforseen abilities of mortal Men. All this lingers in his ancient mind as he whispers in dreams and speaks eerie jesting riddles to the six young people he has selected, as a Fell Winter grips Winsted. The first three volumes comprise the Arheled trilogy, relating the vast secret that Arheled is revealing and the efforts of the Enemies to thwart this revelation being made. They may triumph in the end, but until then they will not succeed, and the Road returns to Temple Fell, and the Children walk it, and learn the secret that will give them power. The next three volumes relate the struggles between the gathering Powers of the North from many mythologies and legends, and the gathering Enemies, the Jotunn or Frost-giants, the Dragons, the Vampires, and the Nine Lords of the Night. Their struggles grow in strength and in destructive effect, causing worldwide plagues and disasters: the Plagues, in short, of the Apocalypse itself. As the world grows increasingly more dystopian and society fractures at the seams, a mysterious President takes office and founds a new religion, outlawing all others. Meanwhile the Grey Place opens, unleashing vampires to bite the living and cause by this bite a plague of despair and pain. The final volumes are yet in preparation; they will relate the Onset of the World against the Powers of the North, as the Last Battle opens.

THE PROPHET IS UPON US! Matters have come to a head. The Prophet has issued a formal declaration of war upon the United States government, and the ex-terrorist Doomriders are now in his ranks. In the climatic battle of Washington DC, the Prophet totals the Armed Forces and shuts down the government, forcing them to hire superheros, the very ones they persecute, to fight for them.

He has wings growing from his back, and he is incaptivity, deep in the caves of the terrorist-superhero Doomsman. And worse, the five superchildren sent by the Prophet to bust him out, are themselves cap-tive. But a fell and terrible spirit awakes in Cherubim, and new powers rise within him, and he rouses the Prophet with winged words, rousting the old priest from his foolish policy of secret refuge and covert resistence to the government persecution of supers. Sooner or later, either he must make war, or they will smoke him out. Now the Prophet and the Doomsman must draw swords together, as the great War of the Prophet opens.

The Guardians are stymied. A rogue story has erupted into reality out of fiction, and they cannot Watch it. The characters there are fictional, but have become real. And worst of all, not only can no Guardians Watch this story, an evil Guardian has entered it. In despair, the Head Guardian calls upon Clondo, the wisest of the immortal watchers of the stories, who challenged the Twelve themselves and was permitted to marry one of his characters. With the Hand of the Bean, eight fay-creatures of immense power, Clondo and his wife enter the rogue story. There the Guardian finds he can only call down cliches, and that his adversary is similarly hampered, having Plot Devices alone at his command. A battle of Cliches against Plot Devices ensues....

Author page: Other Appendages of Farrellverse Arheled Wiki Fandom Due entirely to the colossal megabite content of the many images included in this text, it was deemed less of a financial strain on the purchaser to split the Appendicta of the Comprehensive Study of Weather Patterns into a separate companion volume. APPENDIX B contains temperature graphs of all 25 years in the study period of 1995-2020. APPENDIX C gives the winter weather calenders for the 1990 Winter Cycle that I assembled from weather station readings in order to research past iterations of the 10-year Winter Cycle I uncovered in the weather patterns of central Connecticut; being outside the study period they are not included otherwise in the text of the book proper. APPENDIX D gives the individual Weather Calenders of each of the 25 years, 6 months per page.

Before the Light of Christ penetrated the North, the things of the twilight reigned supreme. But the twilight is a terrible place to wander in, when undiluted by the daylight. Living stones demand blood, and streams demand life as payment for being drunk, and living hills twist into curses all wishes they grant. The Mellachantra has gathered these venda into one place to be secure in the change of the world: Fairyland. Except that land was staked out by imprisoning the kingdom of Nordomba in a glass coffin deep beneath the Cidatel. Seeking to lift the curse Death fixed on her for necromancy, Kary finds herself mired and lost in the perilous and horrible fay-country, escorted by Ordombi Gromae. And war is brewing, between the nastier and more benign elements of Fairyland, who are divided over whether to resist or adapt to the dreadful Light breaking out from the South as priests advance into the wilderness. This fourth Tale is a prequel, taking place eight hundred years before THE STONE-KING.

When a Guardian of the story intervenes, he is breaking the Rules: the stories must be Watched, and kept from going Wrong. But when Clondo the Guardian falls in love with a character the story intends to die, he has no choice but to Intervene, to save her.

THE MEDALLIONS OF THE SEASONS, BOOK 1 This collection of short stories begins with the first tale of the Medallions of the Seasons, John Frost's accidental wish for endless winter, which summons the Icelord, who is Winter himself, to Meriden in the middle of autumn. Only characters called out of books can defeat him. Other stories range far and wide across the spectrum of genres, including enchanted snowmen, werewolf huntsmen, an office worker who wakes up a hundred years after an apocalypse and finds himself hailed as king of a dystopian village, witch hunters, the Halfalive who sold pieces of their lifes to gain immortality and became wraiths....

The village of Old Street, deep in the New England countryside, has been haunted for 400 years by the ingrown family of perverts and sorcerers dwelling in the huge gabled house on the hill above them: the Mathers. Opposite to this hill is the Cemetary on its' own hill, sacred ground and a refuge and fortress against the Mathers. No Mather can enter it, or walk down Old Street. Once they were nobles, rich and powerful; now they are reduced to one man, who ate the others and gained in power: Jason Mather, known as Jayhaya. The Catholic farmers of Old Street wield weapons into which centuries of prayer and consecration reside, the very clasping of which gives them strength against the wizards. The struggle has reached a stalemate, a Balance of Power, which neither can tip without a new factor entering the struggle. The Catholics cannot find any exorcists, and the Mathers, they are only one. Now that a housing development has been built by Jayhaya on one of Old Street's fields, newcomers reside in the village, and by taking sides, can tip this Balance either way. The struggle is chronicled in the seven Jayhaya tales, given in 6 volumes.

THE CHILDREN OF THE PROPHET: The war is over. Or so it would seem. The President has been assasinated and a former agent with superpowers, Ghost, has made himself King of America. But he inherits the feud with the Prophet's men, now encamped in a new country they carved out for themselves named Mutopia, and lays them seige, kidnapping nearly a dozen small children with superpowers they were sheltering. Escaping, the children lift the seige. But then King Ghost's most trusted and powerful super, the demonic Witch-Lord, rebels against him, by using the youngest and most powerful of the House of Fayblood, the Stingray, to steal everyone's powers. He sets out, not to rule the world, but to destroy it. SPEARHEAD: The superheros have been employees of the federal gov. for nearly 70 years. Public opinion has grown hostile, and the remaining active ones ae given less duty, or shunted overseas. Spearhead, who can shift shape to war machine, is drinking with Tailspin when the evening is interrupted by paramilitary assassins. At first the team is inclined to attribute it to one of their old enemies, but the trails lead too far, and too high up, and the forces that keep surging against them are too well-equipped.... In fact, are as well-equipped as the US military. Which is what they are. The superheros are now on the federal hit list.