Beware of the Bargheust Hound
A Yorkshire Cryptid
Okay. I admit it. I think Big Foot is real. But what about Bargheust Hounds? I don’t know, but after reading about them, I surely do hope they aren’t.
A Bargheust Hound is a creature of folklore, specifically in Yorkshire, England. This creature is said to haunt the coastal regions of North Yorkshire. It’s a huge beast, standing between six and nine feet tall at the shoulder and is reported to have glaring red saucer-sized eyes. Naturally the brute has lots of sharp teeth and foams at the mouth. Definitely not something you’d want to meet up with in the dark of night.
I’d include an image here, but none of us need to look at that kind of nightmare.
In my new release, Man of Shadow and Mist, our feisty heroine Rosa Edwards fights against such superstitious nonsense.
“The world seems full of good men—even if there are monsters in it.”
–Bram Stoker, Dracula
England, 1890
Vampires are alive and well in North Yorkshire, leastwise in the minds of the uneducated. Librarian Rosa Edwards intends to drive a stake through the heart of such superstitions. But gossip flies when the mysterious Sir James Morgan returns to his shadowy manor. The townsfolk say he is cursed.
James hates everything about England. The weather. The rumours. The scorn. Yet he must stay. His mother is dying of a disease for which he’s desperately trying to find a cure—an illness that will eventually take his own life.
When Rosa sets out to prove the dark gossip about James is wrong, she discovers more questions than answers. How can she accept what she can’t explain—especially the strong allure of the enigmatic man? James must battle a town steeped in fear as well as the unsettling attraction he feels for the no-nonsense librarian.
Can love prevail in a town filled with fear and doubt?
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