The Prang Codex

Book excerpt: This is an episodic collection of tales set in the mid twelfth century, in the last remaining independent Saxon monarchy in Norman England, due to a nifty legal loophole. Medieval tales of dark deeds, underhand dealings, and horrible tuneless wassailing to hideous wailing crumhornsA set of chronicles in which the King suffers visits from Short and Curly, the two mincing actors from the travelling show Theatre of the Absurd: Lorenz Lawne-Bowlyngge, the flamboyant interior designer: Dr Misaubin, the travelling apothecary and snake-oil man: the misguided owner of a henge-building franchise: Tull, the inventor of the Gardeners Claw: a money-grabbing Water-diviner: an itinerant Tiler: a bunch of homicidal German mercenaries: Joey Pantolooni, the leader of the worst circus on the planet, and many more.Here, for the first time together, are extracts from Wizard Prang's Journal, a chronicler clearly not in the same class as Samuel Pepys, together with the true catastrophic events behind each entry.