From Time Unforgotten: Ravenwood: A Seeker's Memoir

by Jack Peredur

After a century lost in the dark, Melusine lives again and Alaine’s coven welcomes her with laughter and love. It’s clear the traveler from the past has much to teach them, while a new century’s wonders edify her in turn. Alas, their time together will be short. How much will implacable destiny let them share before it sweeps her away again? Will it be enough to help them break the curse that binds her?And her return seems to have wakened Something Else in that ruined city beyond the Mist. Norma is the first to feel its strange senses probing out through solid stone. “Somethin’ old, an’...well, needin’ somehow. An’ what it needs is us!”In fascinated horror, Magus and his Crypt Crew recognize the city and its Dweller from tales in old books long disregarded as fiction. As the stories prove terribly real after all, can Alaine’s mystic knowledge and Mel’s secrets From Time Unforgotten From Time Unforgotten forestall calamity? ~~~~~Those familiar with the history of America in the 1970s will recall the Ravenwood Disaster, in which thirteen college students and faculty met their end in a basement apartment near Russell University in Columbia, South Carolina in the spring of 1972.Some truth, but much more falsehood, has been written about that tragedy. The Ravenwood Thirteen have been called witches, orgiasts, devil worshipers, drug trippers, a suicide cult, even a terrorist group somehow slain by their own intended weapons. Witches indeed they were - well, most of them - but none of those other bold explorers, rather, in worlds beyond this one we all know. Explorers who, through sad mischance on their greatest journey, were unable to return.Ravenwood Associates was formed to honor the memory of the Thirteen who died, to share information, and hopefully, eventually, to set the record straight before the public. That last was impossible in the years closely following the disaster, and some details can likely never be told. The passage of nearly half a century, though, has brought widening public acceptance and understanding of philosophies, religions and lifestyles far from the common norm.It is time, therefore, to reveal as much as prudence and old oaths of secrecy allow.

358 pages, Paperback

Published September 18, 2020