Shadowed Screams: A Devilry Dark Fantasy ● Story 3

In Cawnpore, a village on the Indian subcontinent where the British East India Company rules as a sovereign power on behalf of the British Crown, a bereaved mother seeks retribution for a murderous British officer’s deadly crimes. Only a local Dayan, a practitioner of black magic, is willing to help ease the burden of the mother’s grief—and willing to help satisfy her rage—in part three of this engrossing dark fantasy story series.After a massacre of British women and children during the Indian Rebellion of 1857, infuriated British soldiers under the command of Brigadier-General Sir Archdale Campbell engaged in a surge of violence against the local population of Cawnpore, including indiscriminate shooting of civilians and burning of houses. Begum Khanum lost her two children and husband. Brokenhearted and bullied into silence by British East India officials, Begum’s only recourse for justice is a local Dayan. Years later, she pays for the woman’s passage to London to visit revenge on Campbell's family.When the witch arrives in London, using black magic, she conjures a disembodied malevolent spirit and looses it upon the Campbell family. After the demonic-spirit kills Campbell, his wife, and his sister, Monsignor Littlefield sends Fr. Neville Whitesmith to rid the city of the avenging dark angel of death before it kills more innocents.From fantasy author J. K. Spenser comes Shadowed Screams, part of the Devilry Dark Fantasy series, a thrilling collection of short stories about a warrior priest commissioned to battle supernatural demons and monsters. Follow him in each story, which can be read in a single sitting.

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