Andy Darby

It’s like Shakespeare met Lovecraft in a pub and said, “Let’s rewrite history but make it wild.”

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Andy Darby

Meet Andy, psychonaut, lover of cake, heavy metal, and cats (but not necessarily in the order). He writes fantasy, sword & sorcery, weird tales, and grimdark, he also has a bit of an obsession with historical fiction.

Andy lives on the north coast of Cornwall in the UK.

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The Stone Beneath

Pieter Hertgers is a giant even among Landsknechts, a mercenary whose towering strength and zweihänder have earned him fame in the blood-soaked fields of the Spanish Netherlands. He marched for silver and adventure, not faith or flag—but war demands only bodies, never beliefs.

When his regiment is slaughtered in a haunted forest, Pieter finds...

The Blade in the Angel’s Shadow

Book #1 from the series: The Books of Lament

Condemned and caged, swordswoman Captain Lament Evyngar awaits her fate in the Tower of London: execution for heresy and attempted regicide. But the edge of death is just the beginning of her journey.

Brought before Dr John Dee, Queen Elizabeth I’s court sorcerer, Lament finds herself thrust into a dark pact. Dee’s grand design—to shape a...

Me and The Monkey: Chronicles of The Monkey God Volume 2

Chronicles of The Monkey God Volume 2

Book #2 from the series: Chronicles of the Monkey God

”...the lovechild of Hunter S. Thompson and Terry Pratchett” this is an alcohol and cigar fuelled thrill ride. Booze, ghouls, guns, magic, black holes, and the Illuminati - need I say more? The Ritual Blog on Volume 1

“Well, they couldn’t leave us alone, could they? Now we have to go off to Tibet, via South Africa – don’t ask – and apparently,...

Series

Chronicles of the Monkey God

Me and the Monkey: Chronicles of the Monkey God Volume 1 and Me and The Monkey: Chronicles of The Monkey God Volume 2

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The Books of Lament

The Blade in the Angel’s Shadow

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Me and the Monkey

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The Paddington Incident (Chronicles of The Monkey God)

Other Writing

An Unexpected True History of Dr Dee

Dr Dee features as a main protagonist in my novel The Blade in the Angel's Shadow, the catalyst for all that happens to Lament and Pieter. But his real life as the astrologer/advisor to Queen Elizabeth I, and one of the leading mathematicians, mages, and astronomers of his age is an adventure in its own right.

For your delectation, here is a brief fly by of the life of this extraordinary man who first created the idea of the British Empire and worked tirelessly towards that aim with the aid,...