These 25 spell-poems are otherworldly meditations on the themes of love, death, sin, redemption, ecology and nature, the ritual year, and the soul’s yearnings.

This important new work is a wide-ranging study of the relationship between two men: Ivar the Boneless, son of Ragnar Lothbrok and the völva Aslaug Sigurdsdottir, leader of the Viking Great Heathen Army; and King Edmund of East Anglia, last of the Wuffinga royal dynasty.

Shalat is the unholy offspring of Mörk Borg, Knightfall, Tales from a Thousand and One Nights, and the Ars Goetia. A pitch-black epic medieval occult fantasy; a genre-defying descent into blood, war and magick.

Alexander Menid’s new collection of 25 spell-poems explores the dark half of the year; that is, the six months from the autumn equinox to the vernal equinox.