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

The Blade in the Angel’s Shadow by Andy Darby
Andy Darby

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. 

Books

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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...

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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...

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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,...

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Me and the Monkey

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Other Writing

The End of the Simulation  2012, the end of the world, and the slow

2012, the end of the world, and the slow spinning down of the disk. A lecture by Prof. Adrian Minkowski.

Muse Sometimes inspiration comes at a cost.

Sometimes inspiration comes at a cost.

The Pier An obsession with a flickering image from the past that somehow

An obsession with a flickering image from the past that somehow seems to be alive...

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