Concluding Sketch
The manuscript is currently at 51,536 words and 214 pages. Forty Hands of Night is expected to run to 60,000 words and just under 250 pages.
Chapter 12: The Harvester’s Sickle Road
[Ibrahm] 3 bookmarks“The road from Egypt to Syria, according to the reports of a great many witnesses, was like a field sown with human bodies, or one over which the harvester’s sickle had passed.”
-Abd al-Latif
The Turk
The Berber
The Chosen One
Chapter 13: Eyes of The Frank
[Yusuf] 2 bookmarksA Pain in My Well-worn Ass
Selim al-Akbar’s Ear
Chapter 14: Forty Hands of Night
[Abd al-Latif] 3 bookmarksThe Long Hand of Alamut
A Cloven Dawn
Forty Hands of Night
Chapter 15: Fruit of The Deceiver
[Abd al-Latif, Yusuf, Abdul] 1 bookmark eachThe Faceless One
Seven Hells on My Heels
A Man Well-compensated
Epilogue: I, Locust
3 vignettesEbil Alone
Mother Tree
Professor Jeannot
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When the crusader zombies jump in, this is going to be a bloodbath/gorefest..all from a guy who does not even watch horror flicks!
Luckily, the middle east no longer has stuff like this going on..oh wait.
I had a really hard time getting through Feast. Actually, my aversion to horror makes this whole thing a very guilty feeling endeavor.