![]() ![]() But by now it’s too late, and mad Aethelred flees toward the Danish border, turning every human settlement along the way into monsters which he plans to throw against the Viking occupiers. When he sees how cruel and twisted the dark magic really is, and how its use has corrupted Aethelred, the king orders the clergyman to cease his experiments. ![]() Aethelred wants to use the monsters against the Vikings, and Alfred initially agrees, giving the archbishop leave to experiment with the spells. These scrolls, it turns out, contain powerful spells which when uttered aloud have the power to transform living creatures into hideous monsters. During the reign of Alfred the Great, some previously unknown Latinate scrolls come into the possession of Aethelred, archbishop of Canterbury. Set in ninth-century England, the book is a dark alternate history wherein the beleaguered English discover an unlikely secret weapon which offers hope of repelling the occupying Vikings. Abomination is the first novel by Gary Whitta, who is perhaps best known as screenwriter of The Book of Eli. ![]()
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