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Freda Warrington

    June 22, 1956

    Freda Warrington is a British author celebrated for her epic fantasy, vampire, and supernatural novels. Her works delve into dark themes and romantic elements with a rich, evocative style. Warrington is known for crafting immersive worlds and compelling characters that draw readers into thrilling narratives. Her writing is acclaimed for its depth and emotional resonance, offering a unique blend of the fantastical and the gothic.

    The Obsidian Tower
    The Sapphire Throne
    A Dance in Blood Velvet
    The Dark Blood of Poppies
    The Court of the Midnight King
    Shadows on the Hillside
    • 2021

      Shadows on the Hillside

      • 244 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      An anthology featuring stories that take the reader deep into the strangeness of the landscape, where reality flickers like summer's heat. An empty car with a door hanging open by an endless field of wheat; shimmering heat at midsummer, when something walks unseen in the sunlight; a sense of presence in the view below you as you reach the crest of a hill and look down upon... a story yet untold. Contents: Between Skin and Sea - Cat Hellisen All That Dead Beauty - Andrew Hook The White Wood - Sarah Singleton Bog Goddess - Fiona McGavin Parrot's Drumble - Jordan Biddulph Ochre and Faience - Nerine Dorman A Hard Country to Die In - Paula Wakefield Lightening - Rose Biggin The Green Calling - Storm Constantine The Mydford Medusa - Freda Warrington Sanatorium - Grace Alice Evans The Lighthouse - Emma Coleman The Winter Wife - Kari Sperring The Road to Tempol - Wendy Darling Crabtree Field - Jessica Gilling On Venus Street - Liz Williams Work, Die, Heh Heh - Paul Houghton Borderline - J. E. Bryant Icarus Fall - John Kaiine About the Authors "Shadows on the Hillside is a sightseeing odyssey into the literary strange. The anthology is dysfunctional in all its lucidity, where summer evenings stretch and stark black hills deadstare against a blood sky at weathered sandhills and tors in a beauty of heartache and place." - Aurealis

      Shadows on the Hillside
    • 2017

      Tales from the Weekend

      • 140 pages
      • 5 hours of reading

      A superb horror anthology containing contributions from David J Howe, Paul Lewis, Steve Lockley, Simon Morden, Justina L A Robson, Darren Shan, Sam Stone and Freda Warrington. From some of the greatest writers of modern genre fiction, an anthology of top quality tales. An accident in the snow ... A vampire's visit ... A missing child ... A chemist's nightmare ... Nailbiting horrors ... A zombie-walking service ... Werewolf attacks ... Horror at sea ...

      Tales from the Weekend
    • 2017

      Nights of Blood Wine

      • 220 pages
      • 8 hours of reading

      Enter the spellbinding worlds of Freda Warrington. Fifteen tales of horror and darkness, taking the reader deeper into the vampiric and the unknown. Warrington's vampires haunt the borderlands of excess, and you can find them here in ten stories set in her popular Blood Wine series of novels. Then there are five further tales of fantasy and horror as Warrington takes you further into the worlds of imagination. Step gently, as you may not leave untouched! 'The Blood Wine books are addictive, thrilling reads that are impossible to put down and they definitely deserve more attention.' Worldhopping.net 'A cross between Anne Rice and more edgy modern paranormal romances, only with Freda Warrington's incredible voice ... This author truly has a gift for storytelling.' Not Your Ordinary Book Banter

      Nights of Blood Wine
    • 2015

      The Dark Arts of Blood

      • 500 pages
      • 18 hours of reading

      In the turmoil and glamour of 1920s Europe, vampires Karl, Charlotte and Violette face threats to their very existence. Fiery, handsome dancer Emil achieves his dream to partner the legendary ballerina Violette Lenoir - until his forbidden desire for her becomes an obsession.

      The Dark Arts of Blood
    • 2014

      The Dark Blood of Poppies

      • 519 pages
      • 19 hours of reading
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      The ballerina Violette Lenoir has fallen victim to the bite of the vampire Charlotte. Her fire and energy have fuelled a terrifying change and a dreadful realisation; that Violette has become Lilith, the demon mother of all vampires.

      The Dark Blood of Poppies
    • 2013

      A Dance in Blood Velvet

      • 509 pages
      • 18 hours of reading
      4.0(219)Add rating

      For the love of her vampire suitor, Karl, Charlotte has forsaken her human life. The one light in the shadows is the passion that burns between her and Karl. A love that it seems will last for eternity - until Karl's former lover, the beautiful Katerina, returns from her grave in the icy depths of the Weisskalt to reclaim her life... and Karl.

      A Dance in Blood Velvet
    • 2003

      The Court of the Midnight King

      • 400 pages
      • 14 hours of reading
      4.1(75)Add rating

      The Wars of the Roses - a colourful age, full of fury and passion.Richard III - a shadowy, charismatic figure, portrayed by Shakespeare and by history as England's most malign, ruthless and infamous king...hacked to death on Bosworth Field in a just ending, unmourned.But history is written by the victors. Other realities reveal a different Richard; one who was loved and remembered in the North as their best ruler; a man who, good or evil, can never be forgotten.To Lady Katherine, he is a dark angel; to his faithful knight Raphael, a creature of light; to others, a complex and seductive mystery. Through their eyes we see Richard grow in a strange world - like ours yet unlike, where a Mother Goddess is still revered alongside a patriarchal God. As the struggle between old and new religions is mirrored in that between York and Lancaster, a chance meeting binds Katherine and Richard reluctantly together, and Raphael becomes haunted by nightmare visions of the future. From their youth, Freda Warrington traces their story along with that of England during one of the most fascinating times of its history.

      The Court of the Midnight King
    • 2001

      The Obsidian Tower

      • 432 pages
      • 16 hours of reading
      3.9(91)Add rating

      As this final volume of The Jewelfire Trilogy opens, all seems lost for the humans of Aventuria. The shape-changing Bhahdradomen have invaded their lands and usurped their Queen, aided by the Aelyr lord Falthorn. Queen Helananthe has been forced to stand down or see the death of her mother and brother. Tanthe, imprisoned with her company of friends in The Amber Citadel, must face great peril as they make desperate plans to escape. But even if they succeed, her sister Ysomir is still imprisoned in Parione, the capital city, at the mercy of the terrible Bhahdradomen leader Vaurgroth. One by one, all strands of hope are cut. Deserted by allies, betrayed by Falthorn's dark machinations, the Nine Realms appear doomed. Human, Aelyr and shape-shifter alike are haunted by visions of the final portent, the mysterious Obsidian Tower; a Bhahdradomen myth, a place that may or may not exist, and the heart of Tanthe's darkest fears. Meanwhile, Rufryd - Tanthe's ex-lover - is presumed lost on the shape-changers' desolate isle of Vexor. Then stunning news comes from that direction...

      The Obsidian Tower
    • 2000

      The Sapphire Throne

      • 432 pages
      • 16 hours of reading
      3.9(92)Add rating

      In the second volume of her stunning Jewelfire Trilogy, Freda Warrington moves the action into a different plane of being - the world of the Aelyr, elf-like beings who claim relationship with Warrington's heroine, Tanthe. The war seems to be over. Helananthe, granddaughter of the mad king, Garnelys, has gathered her forces and defeated the Amber Citadel of Parione and its evil Bhahdradomen advisers - but matters are not so simple. The destinies of Tanthe and Ysomir, the sisters whose journeys from their village home of Riverwynde impinged so much upon the shaping of the war, have driven them apart. Ysomir is held in the palace, accused of killing Garnelys; Tanthe is pulled through a portal to the world of the mysterious Aelyr by a youth who calls himself her brother - an Aelyr youth. However, there are darker schemes afoot. As the tale unfolds Tanthe faces challenges from her human friends and her Aelyr "family". Rufryd, brother of Ysomir's dead beloved, rages against the world, and becomes Helananthe's ambassador to the Bhahdradomen on the island of Vexor, where a terrible fate awaits him. And the Nine Kingdoms will be changed forever...

      The Sapphire Throne
    • 1999

      Humans share the world with the shape-changing Bhahdradomen, who they defeated in war centuries ago, and the mysterious Aelyr, who keep apart but also consider the Bhahdradomen as enemies. Now, the shapechangers' wiles inflame a king's madness and lead to war and murder. Two sisters and two brothers from a quiet village are about to be dragged into the conflict, where they will find unlooked-for destinies.

      The Amber Citadel