Storm Constantine

The Dark Goddess is fearsome, lustful, unpredictable, dispassionate, cruel, and often deadly. She is Mother Nature without mercy. She is the Ice Maiden with no heart. She is the Bloody Scavenger of the Battlefield and the Huntress of the Moon. She is the Queen of the Dead, and the Avatar of Madness. She reflects our deepest desires, fears, ideals, hopes and expectations.In this book, you'll meet goddesses of war, ecstasy and chaos, as well as huntresses of the night and queens of the underworld. You'll experience meetings with dark mothers, alluring demonesses and grim hags of the winter twilight, who might share with you their ancient wisdom. In vividly evoked timeless lands you'll encounter powerful sorceresses and wild incarnations of delirium. Hecate, Ereshkigal, Babalon, Akhlys, Melusine, Berchta, Ashina, Black Annis, Lamia... they and all their shadowy sisters wait in their hidden domains to reveal their mysteries.Storm Constantine and Andrew Collins have selected a wide and fascinating assembly of goddesses for this book, including some who are not so well-known. The pathworkings to meet them, and explore their realms through meditation and intuition, will help you gain insight into these often-misunderstood deities.This fully-illustrated book includes articles and pathworkings by Deborah Cartwright, Maggie Jennings, Richard Ward and Caroline Wise. Illustrations by Danielle Lainton, Storm Constantine and Ruby. Cover Art by Brom.

Storm Constantine is a mistress of shadow fantasy, exploring the dark and the weird in human nature and the natural world. Her short stories cross genres from science fiction, to horror, to fantasy, and this collection is the fifth to showcase her uncollected works.'Long Indeed Do We Live' is set upon a desiccated, barren future earth, where life exists only in artificial domes. But the spirit of nature - perhaps vengeful - is persistent and can find its way through the cracks. 'From the Cold Dark Sea' is a Lovecraftian story of the peculiar inhabitants of a mansion, next to the ocean in Cornwall. A young woman goes there to restore a mysterious old book that seems to tell a weird history of creatures of the sea. The peculiar inhabitants of the nearby town might well have stepped from the pages. 'A Winter Bewitchment' spins an elegant tale of fantasy, exploring the mysteries of feminine allure. A countess, bored of her marriage, wants one last splendid fling, but it's the witchcraft of her young companion which enables this, and the results are unpredictable. 'The Saint's Well' is a tale of the unseen in the landscape and how ancient beliefs persist in hidden corners of the countryside. An agent of the Vatican investigates the alleged manifestation of a saint in a small Welsh village in the 1950s. Is this down purely to the imagination of a child, or something more - and of much earlier times?These are but tasters for the tales within this collection, which presents Storm Constantine at her story-telling best."Storm Constantine is a myth-making Gothic queen, whose lush tales are compulsive reading. Her stories are poetic, involving, delightful and depraved. I wouldn't swap her for a dozen Anne Rices." Neil Gaiman

'If life is a battle, then my inner scars are medals for valour, for swiftness, for courage, for passion. Evil is the dark-haired sibling of Good; they walk hand in hand--always. And, by the way, whatever it sounds like, that is not an excuse.'Calanthe, erstwhile companion of Tigron Pellaz, is on the run. He flees from his past and his mistakes, haunted by spectres of the terrible things he has done. Down on his luck, broke and starving, he takes work in a musenda, a brothel in the disreputable town of Fallsend. Here, he meets Panthera, a strange and beautiful har, held in unspeakable slavery, from which Cal vows to liberate him.Once free of Fallsend, Cal and Panthera undertake a mythic journey through the land of Jaddayoth, from the peaks of Shappa to the underground city of Sahen. Here strange new tribes have formed with intriguing mutations and customs. Only through the experiences he can gain from the tribes of Jaddayoth will Cal become strong and prepared enough to face what lies waiting for him at journey's end - in the Tigron's city of Immanion. With ghosts at his heels and phantoms beckoning to him from the future, Cal must confront his past, in order to fulfil his destiny and discover whether he and Pellaz can ever be reunited.Third in The Wraeththu Chronicles trilogy, The Fulfilments of Fate and Desire concludes the first saga of the androgynous race that has become the dominant species on earth. For this edition, the author expanded scenes and added extra appendices to give more background information about the world of Wraeththu. With chapter heading illustrations by Ruby.

'Wraeththu. I shiver to say the word. Something has happened to them. Where did they come from? How did it happen? Why is it spreading like a plague? I have seen what they do. I have seen their faces. They always take their dead with them, always. There is a secret. Don't you understand? A secret. Wraeththu are not what they seem. They are more than they seem.'Pellaz Cevarro has heard tales of the Wraeththu, a feared and ferocious youth cult, shrouded in mystery, that's taking root in cities wracked by disease, disaster and conflict. Is Wraeththu a symptom of this decline, or something more? It is only when the enigmatic Cal arrives at the secluded Cevarro homestead that Pellaz discovers the unimaginable truth. Lured away by Cal to a different life, Pellaz discovers that Wraeththu are poised to replace humanity upon a ravaged world. Changed in body, mind and soul, Pellaz cannot escape a destiny that was set for him, nor the tragic consequences of his association with the dangerous and beautiful Cal.Ground-breaking when it first appeared in the late 1980s, the Wraeththu Chronicles trilogy charts the history of a new race of androgynous beings who come to replace humanity on Earth. Daring, erotic and magical, these revised editions include 'deleted scenes' missing from the original editions, which the author has expanded and restored.

'Never speak his name, never ' Cobweb warned. 'Never whistle in the dark for it summons evil and he will hear it. In the treetops, the feathered ones will know. Watch them, Swift, watch the birds 'That night I had a terrible dream. In the dream, the yellow-haired har was standing in a wreath of shadowy flames and his beauty was ugliness. He saw me and snared me in horror. 'Call me, ' he whispered and held out his hands, which were dripping red and shaking. I tried to turn away, run away, but I could not move. His eyes transfixed me. 'Call me ' Swift is a young har, growing up in the town of Galhea, among the Varrs, one of the most feared of Wraeththu tribes. His father is Terzian, the phyle leader, his hostling the mysterious witch-har, Cobweb. Swift is sheltered from the horrors beyond his home, where humans and hara are still in conflict over territory, with the humans rapidly losing the fight. But now, different factions of hara are also engaged in hostilities.When a face from the past reappears, amid a host of dire omens, Swift has to face the truth about his own kind and make difficult decisions about what's best for their future. The powerful Gelaming tribe seek to take control of Megalithica, Swift's home country, because the Varrs are barbaric and cruel and commit atrocities against any who oppose them - or so Swift is told. This does not match the memories he has of his happy childhood. But perhaps the stories are true, and a vile canker eats at the heart of the Varr hierarchy - a canker that must be cut out, whatever the cost.The Bewitchments of Love and Hate is second volume in The Wraeththu Chronicles trilogy, expanded and updated, with chapter heading illustrations by Ruby.

Immanion Press, through its imprint Megalithica Books, is pleased to announce the publication of Grimoire Dehara Book Three: Nahir Nuri. This is the third volume of the pop culture magic system based on the mythos of Storm Constantine's popular fantasy novels, the Wraeththu series. The focus of the system is the Dehara, androgynous deities that represent the alchemical rebis, the conjunction of male and female, spirit and matter.The book is fully illustrated by artist Ruby, with additional illustrations by Storm Constantine. It will be available as a limited edition numbered hardback of 50 copies, a paperback and eEbook. The printed editions will contain more illustrations than the eBook.Following on from Grimoire Dehara: Ulani, this book explores Nahir Nuri, the third tier of the system, incorporating the levels Efrata, Aislinn and Cleatha. The practitioner now explores the cosmos, encountering new magical entities with whom to work, and creating new realms from their imaginations. Nahir Nuri also presents the Deharan interpretations of the Tree of Life, a distinct version for each level of the tier.Grimoire Dehara: Nahir Nuri includes: The Otherlanes - the paths between etheric realmsMeeting the Sedim, vehicles of the OtherlanesPansophia - the three aspects of the Tree of Life: Arboriamunda, Creamora and CosmoriaAncestral majhahns - the time before modern humanityNew dehara associated with ascension majhahns and exploration of the ethersThe dehara of space and timeCreating new realmsWorking within created realms for specific magical purposesThis book is an essential addition to the library of any experimental practitioners of magic interested in new systems, as well as fans of Storm's work, who want to know more about the magic described in the novels.