The Horror of Amlethstein - Paperback
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Amleth Godfredsen, King of the Danes is dead. His only son and heir Frans Amlethsen awakens from near death to find himself burdened by a broken body, mind and realm which he does not recognise and which cannot easily be made whole. As dark forces converge from without and within, it seems the living and the dead mean to bring judgement down on the House of Godfredsen.
As rebellion gathers in taverns and forests, ancient gods stir once more beneath soil soaked in blood. Pagan skin-walkers prowl the coasts. Old rites return without mercy. Church and heathen, king and rebel, salvation and torment collapse into a single knife's edge.
Plagued by spirits that demand vengeance, whispers of betrayal, and memories that refuse to settle into truth, Amlethsen's journey will see him reforged into something new and monstrous, as he slips beneath a tide of rage gnawing at his soul.
Amlethstein is a brutal gothic horror tale of resurrection, religious violence, and political collapse - a world of ritual sacrifice, mutilation, burning, and unquiet dead, where belief justifies cruelty, love births tragedy, and the cost of life is paid in blood. Amlethstein is an exploration of what remains after faith and treachery have finished tearing a kingdom apart and of how judgement can come for the innocent and guilty alike.
The first book in The Blackspeare Tales, a trilogy of books scheduled for release in 2026.
Ulric Black is an Irish writer and poet. A lifelong reader and lover of classic and modern literature, he studied Irish and English language and literature in College where he developed a particular love of Old English and Irish writer and its visceral nature. He earned his Batchelors degree in University College Dublin and his Masters in Trinity College Dublin.
He lives in the countryside in Ireland with his family, where he prefers to maintain a private life. He writes under the pen-name Ulric Black for anonymity in the belief that anonymity allows a writer of horror the necessary freedom to let their stories go to the dark places which best serve the reader and the story,
A lifelong lover of gothic horror, occult tales and classical literature, Black aims to create immersive worlds which elevate fantasy, horror and gothic genres while appealing to a modern audience.
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