Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} The House of by Sam Gafford ISBN 13: 9781626412545. In 1975, young Bill Simmons is the new kid in New Milford. Bullied and struggling for acceptance, he meets four other boys who form the ‘the Cemetery League’, a group devoted to the weird, exotic and bizarre in movies, comics and television. Each boy carries their own secrets which combine to come to a violent and fiery conclusion in a lonely Connecticut forest. Now, nearly forty years later, the events of that night come back to haunt Bill Simmons as, one by one, the members of the Cemetery League are targeted by an unknown force that may have unnatural links to their past. Has something, or someone, come to exact a bloody vengeance? And how is it linked to a serial killer’s twenty year spree throughout the Nutmeg State? To answer these questions, Bill Simmons will have to face his greatest fears and the failure that destroyed his life and left him a hopeless alcoholic. But will it be enough? "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Sam Gafford is published in a wide variety of anthologies and publications. His fiction has appeared in collections such as Black Wings Volumes I, III and V, as well as Flesh Like Smoke, The Lemon Herberts, Wicked Tales, and in magazines like Weird Fiction Review, Dark Corridor, Nameless, and others. A lifelong Lovecraftian, he has written critical articles appearing in Lovecraft Studies, , Weird Fiction Review, Nameless, and more. An expert on the life and work of pioneering science fiction writer William Hope Hodgson, Gafford is currently working on a book-length critical biography of Hodgson. Recently, he wrote Some Notes on a Non-entity: The Life of H.P. Lovecraft, a 120- page graphic novel biography of HPL, drawn by Jason Eckhardt. Gafford also has a collection of short horror fiction, The Dreamer in Fire and Other Tales. He is a pop culture junkie, and has probably watched far more TV than recommended. He lives in Rhode Island with his long- suffering wife and three ambivalent cats. The House of Nodens is his debut novel. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. (No Available Copies) If you know the book but cannot find it on AbeBooks, we can automatically search for it on your behalf as new inventory is added. If it is added to AbeBooks by one of our member booksellers, we will notify you! The House of Nodens by Sam Gafford Available May 2nd 2017 from Dark Regions Press… Dark Regions Press will be publishing the debut novel by author Sam Gafford entitled The House of Nodens. To be offered for preorder first in their upcoming May 2nd 2017 Books Kickstarter campaign, this exciting debut novel by the author will be available in both ebook and trade paperback formats. In 1975, young Bill Simmons is the new kid in New Milford. Bullied and struggling for acceptance, he meets four other boys who form the ‘the Cemetery League’, a group devoted to the weird, exotic and bizarre in movies, comics and television. Each boy carries their own secrets which combine to come to a violent and fiery conclusion in a lonely Connecticut forest. Now, nearly forty years later, the events of that night come back to haunt Bill Simmons as, one by one, the members of the Cemetery League are targeted by an unknown force that may have unnatural links to their past. Has something, or someone, come to exact a bloody vengeance? And how is it linked to a serial killer’s twenty year spree throughout the Nutmeg State? To answer these questions, Bill Simmons will have to face his greatest fears and the failure that destroyed his life and left him a hopeless alcoholic. But will it be enough? The House of Nodens by Sam Gafford will be available on Tuesday, May 2nd 2017 in the Cthulhu Mythos Books Kickstarter Campaign from Dark Regions Press. The 13 Gates of the Necronomicon. He is mentioned in company with in The Strange High House in the Mist , and the abyss in which he dwells must be a watery abyss, since he comes to the house riding on a giant seashell. Nodens is an actual Celtic god worshipped in . Author : Donald Tyson. Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide. ISBN: 9780738726298. Category: Body, Mind & Spirit. Thirteen points of entry. Locked gateways to magical realms of immense power—and danger, for the uninitiated. Within these pages are thirteen keys. Enter the Necronomicon and be forever changed. In this authentic sourcebook for magicians, occult scholar Donald Tyson uses H. P. Lovecraft’s story elements and characters—alien races, ancient sorceries, the Dreamlands, , witches, and ghouls—as the foundation for a workable and coherent system of modern ritual magic based on the thirteen true zodical constellations. This authoritative guide presents the essential elements of the Necronomicon mythos for use in esoteric practices such as dream scrying, astral projection, magical rites, and invocations. The House of Nodens. In 1975, young Bill Simmons is the new kid in New Milford. Author : Sam Gafford. Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. ISBN: 1727490541. In 1975, young Bill Simmons is the new kid in New Milford. Bullied and struggling for acceptance, he meets four other boys who form the 'the Cemetery League', a group devoted to the weird, exotic and bizarre in movies, comics and television. Each boy carries their own secrets which combine to come to a violent and fiery conclusion in a lonely Connecticut forest. Now, nearly forty years later, the events of that night come back to haunt Bill Simmons as, one by one, the members of the Cemetery League are targeted by an unknown force that may have unnatural links to their past. Has something, or someone, come to exact a bloody vengeance? And how is it linked to a serial killer's twenty year spree throughout the Nutmeg State? To answer these questions, Bill Simmons will have to face his greatest fears and the failure that destroyed his life and left him a hopeless alcoholic. But will it be enough? Roman Britain and Where to Find It. The site museum in the house is an exceptional cornucopia of finds. A great profusion of votive objects . Among those who are called Senicianus do not allow health until he brings it to the temple of Nodens .' In 1785 a gold ring was found in a . Author : Denise Allen. Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited. ISBN: 9781445690155. Category: History. An illustrated history of the best Roman sites and artefacts to be found in Britain, for anyone wanting to discover the Roman past. The Hanging Tree. Pressed harder , however , he conceded that he had asked Edwards to take Noden as paymaster for his medical bill . Pressed harder still , he admitted that ' I . my father's house but the prisoner Noden ' . Under pressure she retracted this . Author : V. A. C. Gatrell. Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand. ISBN: 0192853325. Category: Science. A history of mentalities, emotions, and attitudes rather than of policies and ideas, it analyses responses to the scaffold at all social levels: among the crowds which gathered to watch executions; among 'polite' commentators from Boswell and Byron on to Fry, Thackeray, and Dickens; and among the judges, home secretary, and monarch who decided who should hang and who should be reprieved. Drawing on letters, diaries, ballads, broadsides, and images, as well as on poignant appeals for mercy which historians until now have barely explored, the book surveys changing attitudes to death and suffering, 'sensibility' and 'sympathy', and demonstrates that the long retreat from public hanging owed less to the growth of a humane sensibility than to the development of new methods of punishment and law enforcement, and to polite classes' deepening squeamishness and fear of the scaffold crowd. Celtic Curses. He has given half to Nodens . Among those whose name is Senicianus , do not permit health until he brings it to the temple of Nodens . Renewed . The mention of giving half ( rather than all ) of the stolen ring being dedicated to Nodens in this . Author : Bernard Thomas Mees. ISBN: IND:30000124535299. Category: Literary Criticism. Full analysis of ancient and medieval expressions of Celtic cursing, using evidence ranging from magical charms to curse tablets. The Lion and the Lamb. Besides, you've been complaining for the last three days about how much you wanted to get out of the house. . She was deeply troubled to learn that Lucas had been to the infamous temple of Nodens , which Agrius Leo was paying a fortune . Author : John Henry Clay. Publisher: Hachette UK. ISBN: 9781444761351. Category: Fiction. A young soldier with a secret past. An ancient family rivalry. A conspiracy that threatens to plunge Roman Britain into darkness. Living in a hovel, beaten by a merciless commander, broken by the weather and forced to survive on starvation rations: no one looking at Paul would ever gues that he is heir to one of Roman Britain's wealthiest and most important families. But Paul had his reasons for joining the army and fleeing the family he loves. But when rumours of a barbarian uprising from beyond the Wall begin to circulate, Paul realises that his family is in grave danger. With only former slave-girl Eachna for company, Paul deserts the army - for which the penalty is death - and undertakes a hazardous journey across Britain where danger lurks around every corner. Epic in scope, rich with historical detail, THE LION AND THE LAMB is a novel of Roman Britain on the cusp of the Dark Ages, when all that stood between her citizens and oblivion was one family. Tolkien s Worlds. At the end of a fine summary of the – Nodens story, John D. Rateliff argues that in his later Annals of Aman, Tolkien was . They owe more to William Morris and his Huns and Romans, as in The House of the Wolfings or The Roots of the . Author : John Garth. Publisher: White Lion Publishing. ISBN: 9780711241275. An expertly written investigation of the places that shaped the work of one of the world's best loved authors, exploring the relationship between worlds real and fantastical. Folklore of Gloucestershire. Author : Roy Palmer. ISBN: UOM:39015051555269. Category: Folklore. The Folklore of Gloucestershire. Letters to Fort St George 1681 1711. Nodens house and so often yt . y . lesser thinking Servis . have askt ours ye , meaning of it whether Pero did not . Noden and his Counceller Pero put their wits togather ( sic ) in consulting matters so as to hinder my going to Vizagapatam y® . Author : Madras (India : State) ISBN: UOM:39015026644727. Category: India. Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives of New Zealand. January 1 To balance handed over by Major Richmond to the Commissioners under the Act To W . Guy , rent “ S . Rochfort , ditto « J . Noden , ditto W . Boyes , ditto 66 W . Pugh , ditto « J . N . Halliday , ditto 66 F . Fagan , ditto Morrison and . ISBN: NYPL:33433014899698. Category: New Zealand. A Digest of the Reported Cases Determined in the House of Lords Privy Council and in the Courts of Common Law Divorce Probate Admiralty Bankruptcy. Edgar 5551 d . Miller v . Noden 4629 , 5379 d . r . Rogers 4097 d . Millett 3526 , 5564 d . Milner v . Brightwen 1837 d . 3378 d . Mitchell 2. Weller 5305 d . Mitchinson v . Carter 5366 d . Molesworth v . Sleeman 3811 d . Monk v . Geekee 5291 d . Author : Robert Alexander Fisher. ISBN: NYPL:33433009491303. Category: Law reports, digests, etc. The Illustrated London News. 1 , 1928 A ROMAN - BRITISH HUNTING - GOD'S TEMPLE ? THE SHRINE OF NODENS ; AND VOTIVE DOGS . 11 % 2 THE PAVED CORRIDOR SURROUNDING THE ROMAN TEMPLE OF NODENS ( AN OTHERWISE UNKNOWN GOD ) AT . ISBN: UTEXAS:059172131518357. The Law Times Reports of Cases Decided in the House of Lords the Privy Council the Court of Appeal new Series. In 1863 Beale retired , and the plaintiff pation to the plaintif , the company were entitled purchased his business . The plaintiff then to judgment . applied to Noden , the defendants ' manager , for This was an action for the recorery of land , tried . ISBN: OSU:32437121366450. Category: Law reports, digests, etc. The Penguin Guide to the Landscape of England and Wales. The temple was dedicated to the native British god Nodens , a local ; judging from the mosaic found in the cella , depicting fishes and sea - monsters , and the fragments of bronze images of fishermen and mermen , the cult may have . Author : Paul Coones. Publisher: Penguin Group USA. ISBN: UOM:39015063684776. Category: England. The Romance of Archaeology Formerly Magic Spades. This temple in Gloucestershire was dedicated to a Celtic god named Nodens , a deity about whom very little is known . Nodens appears to have been a god of healing ; numerous pilgrims came to his temple seeking a cure for diseases . Author : Ralph Van Deman Magoffin. ISBN: UTEXAS:059173018446106. Category: Archaeology. Ethnologia Scandinavica. Confirmation could kinds . mean that one could wear long trousers , and The Nöden " type " shows itself to be rather the . Contacts tion as a result of the improvement of living outside the house were especially noticeable , conditions . where . ISBN: IND:30000108628003. Category: Ethnology. Vol. for 1971 contains papers presented at the 1st International Symposium for Ethnological Food Research in Lund, 1970. The House of the Worm. . keeping of hoary Nodens , who is lord not of the World but the Great Abyss , and bound Them beneath their Elder Sign forever . But there would come a time when hoary Nodens would sleep and forget his watch ; and then would come those . Author : Gary Myers. Publisher: Pub. ISBN: UOM:39015069971169. Category: Fiction. Bermuda Historical Quarterly. 1740 BERMUDA At a conference of a Committee of Both Houses holden at the house of Mr. John Slater in St. Georges this 9th day . That the next proceeds of the brass gun when sold, should lie in Mr. Nodens Hands till further orders from the . ISBN: UVA:X001084174. Category: Bermuda Islands. Saturday Review0. As read by Dr. McCaul , the of the coins scattered broadcast over the site of the temple — the dedicatiou ran earlier ones . Pectillus vow he promised to the greatest God Nodens , " and has a rude figure , this interpretation , it should be noted . The House of Nodens by Sam Gafford. This isn’t a biography – others knew him better than I did - but I had nearly five years of close friendship with him, and many shared projects. We co-founded Occult Detective Quarterly, and it was typical of him that he wanted it as a paying market – he would dip into his own limited pocket to support any Ulthar books which should have, but didn’t, break even. Writers should be paid. He found publishing stressful, and unremunerative, and yet days before his death, he was planning new works. He believed in small presses. Only in the last few months he published two imaginative new anthologies - ‘Machinations and Mesmerism: Tales Inspired by E.T.A. Hoffman’ (edited by Farah Rose Smith) and ‘Hell’s Empire’ (edited by John Linwood Grant), and he had more on the way. He was and is, I believe, underrated as a writer, never mind his other activities. He didn’t feel comfortable with the fuss and falseness of marketing, networking and all that exhausting jazz. He didn’t show off like so many of us do. Yet his novels ‘The House of Nodens’ (Dark Regions) and ‘Whitechapel’ (Ulthar) - a Lovecraftian horror, and a weird Arthur Machen/Jack the Ripper tour de force respectively, were both superb. His sole collection ‘The Dreamer in Fire’ (Hippocampus) is a wonderful selection of stories both dark and strange; his collaboration with artist Jason Eckhardt, the graphic novel ‘Some Notes on a Non-Entity: The Life of H P Lovecraft’ (PS Publishing) is fascinating. These are just some of his fine achievements. Sam wouldn’t have said most of that. He would have worried, and hoped that someone would pick them up and maybe give him the nod, say what he’d done wasn’t bad at all. He was more likely to tell you how good your own work was, or ask you if you had anything which fitted Ulthar’s list. I am diminished, and we are diminished as a field. We should remember him, and all his works. ‘Machinations and Mesmerism’ is available through Lulu. ‘Hell’s Empire’ and Sam’s own books are available through Amazon UK and Amazon US. John Linwood Grant and Dave Brzeski will continue producing Occult Detective Quarterly for the immediate future, under one name or another, as a tribute to Sam’s enthusiasm and ideas. It will be dedicated to him. John Linwood Grant, July 2019. John was also invited onto the Lovecraft ezine podcast to talk about Sam, you can watch this by following the link below. The House of Nodens by Sam Gafford. This is where you can keep up on my current projects and find out where my stuff is going to show up next! The House of Nodens. My first novel, The House of Nodens , will be released by Dark Regions Press next month! Click here for more information and to order a copy: https://darkregions.com/products/the-house-of-nodens-by-sam-gafford. NecronomiCon Providence. I will be at the NecronomiCon convention in Providence from August 18-20. I'll have a table there where you can buy many of my books and on some of the programming as well. Here's where I'll be: Friday, August 18th @ 10:30am, I will be giving a reading in the L'Apogee lounge at the Biltmore Hotel. I'll be reading a selection from my forthcoming short story collection, THE DREAMER IN FIRE AND OTHER STORIES. Saturday, August 19th, Jason Eckhardt and I will be giving a presentation about our graphic novel biography of H.P. Lovecrart with lots of the artwork from the book. Sunday, August 20th, @ 1:30pm, I will be participating in a panel on William Hope Hodgson in the Omni.