The Season of the Warlock

The fictitious realm of Groldavia was once ruled by a fiendish feudal lord called Waldemar Gorobec. One of the myths surrounding Waldemar is that he was a warlock of unimaginable power and cruelty, until finally he was betrayed by his closest apprentices and burned at the pyre by a frenzied populace… Centuries later, his life and work form the subject of devoted study for Alistair Ainsworth, an english lord obsessed with the occult. He is so immersed in his research that he has set up his living quarters at the old castle that used to belong to the fabled necromancer, with the sole company of Nigel, his loyal, if somewhat rascally, butler.