Tony Riches
Tuesday, June 17, 2025
Shining a bright book spotlight on Bess – Tudor Gentlewoman by Tony Riches #HistoricalFiction #Elizabethan #RecommendedReading
Tony Riches
Monday, June 16, 2025
Book of the Week: The Legend of Henry Petch by Sharon Bradshaw #HistoricalFiction #Folklore #Supernatural #RecommendedReading
The Legend of Henry Petch
A creepy tale of werewolves, the paranormal, and an obsessive love that endured across the centuries.
Ben is more interested in getting his hands on Elias Hepworth's fortune, along with the benefits of being a hippy in 1970, than heeding the warning left behind by legend and folklore. As he indulges in free love, and takes psychedelic drugs.
He doesn't believe in ghosts, and can't decide whether Henry Petch had the power to turn himself into a werewolf during the eighteen hundreds or was suffering from lycanthropy.
Nevertheless, when the Wolf moon appears in the sky above the Yorkshire dales, everyone else in the village of Leatham continues to follow the tradition of lighting a candle. So that Old Henry will go on his way, without harming them.
The Legend Of Henry Petch is Book 1 in The Dark Side Of Folklore series. It can also be read as a standalone novella.
Friday, June 13, 2025
Blog Tour: An Echo of Ashes by Ron Allen Ames
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An Echo of Ashes
Publisher: Historium Press
Pages: 247
Genre: Historical Fiction
An Echo of Ashes is a story lost to time, then found again in century-old letters that lay in a tattered box.
Based on actual events taken from the pages, this story tells of when the Great War and the Spanish Influenza forever altered the lives of millions, including a family of subsistence farmers who also worked the oil fields of Pennsylvania.
Ella and Almon make their home in the backcountry. Almon and his sons work in the oil fields, just as their forefathers before them. As war and influenza break out, the parents seek to shield their family from the impending perils. Earl, the eldest son, is a gifted trombone and piano player. He is captivated by Lucile Lake, a girl from a higher social status. All he has to win her heart are his music and his words as the military draft looms in the foreground. Jack, a friend as close as a brother, faces the horrors of war at the Western Front. Albert's free spirit creates chaos as he searches for direction. Arthur's patriotism leads him to the Mexican border. Young Russell must suppress his fear to save a life, while Little Clara remains protected from the distress.
World War One and the Spanish Influenza Pandemic are most often documented separately, yet they intersected in 1918. For those who endured sacrifice and loss during this time, looking forward seemed their only choice. The sharp echo of tragedy, carried through the ashes of what once was, likely dulled but never vanished from their minds. This is just one of countless family stories from such a perilous chapter in American history.