NEW from Black Wolf’s Imaginarium!

Black Wolf’s Imaginarium is very pleased to announce the publication of Tristan Black Wolf’s latest novel, The Last Defender of Albion. This most unusual detective story makes a singular point: Before you can find a murderer, you have to know who the victim is. Here’s what’s on the back cover of the paperback:

Book cover for "The Last Defender of Albion"“Detective Max Luton, Homicide.”

My standard intro, and yeah, this old dog’s used it a lot, over the years. I’ve investigated a good many deaths. Maybe too many. This one was strange. Rich tiger, a lawyer a little younger than me, offs himself with a gun in one paw and a short sword in the other. Crazy, but what’s that to me? Nothing… except that the brass wants it to be a murder. After all, no rich guy who has everything would commit suicide, right?

My hunt for a candidate to be a killer led me to several crazy characters who didn’t know nuthin’. Finally, that twisted trail pointed to some group called Timewind that’s wrapped up in his past. Some kind of subversive-hippie-commie bunch, according to the government watch groups that labeled them domestic terrorists. They’d made the sword that I’d found on the tiger. They knew him, once upon a time; maybe they’d know why he killed himself. Maybe it had something to do with this book of theirs, The Tribal Manifesto. I figured I had to check it out.

Might be dangerous, but at least it’d be an interesting way to go…

The paperback can be found through Barnes & Noble, Bookshop, and many other online bookstores around the world. It is also available as an eBook from many sellers, including B&N, Smashwords, and Apple.

BWI will be posting a few chapters here, to whet your appetite. Come back soon!

The Man Who Wanted to Be Guilty

By Henrik Stangerup
ISBN 0-7145-2733-5

Publication Year: 1982

Tags: Social Morality, Science Fiction, Existential

Rating: ★★★★☆

The world of Stangerup’s main character, Torben, is both strange and familiar. Some of its elements would seem to be part of modern day Europe – perhaps Denmark (the author’s home country), or Sweden or Switzerland – while other elements seem part of a future that had only been conceived in George Orwell’s nightmarish visions of 1984. In this strange, familiar, antiseptic, perfectly balanced world, Torben kills his wife Edith in a fit of rage, and he is taken away by the Helpers to a state hospital. He is treated well, with compassion, and with understanding and forgiveness that surpasses all human comprehension. When his case of aggression has been duly dealt with, he is released back into his caring, clean, orderly society, free from any stain of crime or guilt. Continue reading “The Man Who Wanted to Be Guilty”