From the bestselling M. R. Carey comes an utterly unique and enchantingly dark epic fantasy fable like no other. This is the tale of Once Was Willem, who-eleven hundred and some years after the death of Christ, in the kingdom that had but recently begun to call itself England-rose from the dead to defeat a great evil facing the humble village of Cosham.
Pennick for all its beauty was ever a place with a dark reputation. The forests of the Chase were said to be home to nixies and boggarts, and there was a common belief, passed down through many generations, that the castle housed an unquiet ghost of terrible and malign power. These rumours I can attest were all true, indeed, they fell short of the truth by a long way...
Joe Jameson guides listeners through a dark yet hopeful fable of a boy who is reborn at a terrible cost. From the moment Willem awakens--neither fully alive nor wholly revenant--Jameson's gruff tone and English accent suggest a rugged, intimately human presence. Jameson's storytelling strikes a deft balance between eerie surrealism and heartfelt warmth, drawing listeners into Willem's moral quanda
