2021-01-01 – Der Wehrwolf by Hermann Lons has been released as part of the Whitewolf Classic collection. Originally released in 1910, the Whitewolf Classic edition contains the original German text as well as a brand new English translation.
Description: Harm Wulf is a farmer who lost both his family and his home during the Thirty Years’ War. To protect the farmers, he becomes the defending Wulf of a foothill.
The Warwolf is a heroic tale that instills a sense of duty to defend one’s people against hordes of invaders and to persevere in the face of adversity.
2020-11-16 – The Fourth Level – Book 15 – Jeopardy by Nicholas Huntley has officially released.
Description: When Diana Cambridge and her mercenary unit within the Harlech Syndicate are betrayed in a top-secret mission within Harlech, Diana is the lone survivor who vows revenge against the conspirators that betrayed her comrades. In an effort to achieve her goal, Diana allies with Allodia de la Cabernet, and takes on a secret identity as a vigilante as she goes against the Neo-Harlech Syndicate that forms, and includes the Harlech Police Department and Mayor’s Office.
However, Tristan Merrick quickly realizes that the love of his life is this mysterious vigilante and becomes uncomfortable and fearful for Diana as she places herself in harm’s way. Tristan allies with Charlemagne de la Cabernet and develop a mitigation strategy so that they can safely capture Diana before she can harm herself. Inevitably, Diana and Tristan land themselves in conflict with each other as one seeks to save the other, while the other seeks to save others from a dastardly plot left behind from an old enemy.
Will Tristan be able to stop Diana? Will Diana avenge her fallen comrade? Who are these conspirators, and what is their plot that has Diana so invested in bringing them to justice…?
2020-10-01 – Dracula by Bram Stoker has officially been released as part of the Whitewolf Classic collection. Originally released in 1897, the Whitewolf edition of this work contains the original English text.
Description: Jonathan Harker, a young English solicitor, travels to Transylvania to help the aristocratic Count Dracula finalize the purchase of an old estate (Carfax) near London. In a chilling epistolary tale – told through diaries, letters, and newspaper clippings – Mr. Harker soon realizes his host is an ancient, blood-sucking undead creature who imprisons him in a decaying castle haunted by seductive female vampires. Dracula sails to England, unleashing terror on innocents and targeting the beautiful Lucy Westerna, whose mysterious decline draws the brilliant Professor Abraham Van Helsing.
A cornerstone of horror literature, Dracula explores Victorian fears of invasion, sexuality, and the clash between modernity and ancient evils.
The Whitewolf Classic of this novel includes the original English text published in 1897.
2020-08-16 – The Fourth Level – Book 14 – Evolution by Nicholas Huntley has officially released.
Description: The end of summer is nigh and it is time for Diana Cambridge and Tristan Merrick to return from Isla Paraiso and come to their new home in the City of Harlech, where they are set to begin their first semester at university.
However, this change of scenery, livelihood, and environment unsettles both Diana and Tristan, who grow distant from each other. The changes are most dire within Tristan whose unstable psyche grows increasingly to a tipping point as all that he thought he knew, hoped, and dreamed becomes fantasy, and the weight of responsibility and expectation become too much on him. These changes are more subtle for Diana, but she holds steady as she comes closer to her Christian faith, but even the sanctity of the Church is not free from the subversion of evil and she comes under as well.
Will Diana and Tristan’s relationship hold steady in the face of this inevitable storm, or is this the end of the couple? Can anyone save them, or were they doomed from the start? Will they be able to adapt to the changes and overcome the darkness ahead…?
2020-07-01 – In a Glass Darkly by Sheridan Le Fanu has been released as part of the Whitewolf Classic collection. Originally released in 1872, the Whitewolf Classic edition contains the original English text.
Description:In a Glass Darkly is a landmark collection of five eerie tales, presented as posthumous papers of the metaphysical physician Dr. Martin Hesselius, the stories explore the shadowy boundary between psychological torment and genuine otherworldly menace.
The volume opens with the unsettling Green Tea, in which a clergyman is stalked and gradually broken by a malevolent spectral monkey visibly only to him. It is followed by tales of relentless supernatural pursuit (The Familiar), a corrupted judge haunted by vengeful phantoms (Mr. Justice Harbottle), a suspenseful mystery involving deception and live burial (The Room in the Dragon Volant), and the book’s most famous work, Carmilla, a pioneering vampire novella that predates other notable works by many years, and focuses on a seductive, undead female predator.
Le Fanu’s subtle, atmospheric prose builds dread and through suggestion and ambiguity, reflecting the biblical title’s idea of perceiving truth “through a glass, darkly,” this collection remains essential reading for fans of classic horror, psychological ghost stories, and early vampire fiction.
The Whitewolf Classic edition of this Gothic text includes the original English text published in 1872.
2020-05-16 – The Fourth Level – Book 13 – Masquerade by Nicholas Huntley has officially released.
Description: In celebration of Diana Cambridge and Tristan Merrick’s graduation from high school, Allodia de la Cabernet decides to take the couple, and her brother, Charlemagne de la Cabernet, to the utopian island of Isla Paraiso in the Caribbean to meet with the Cabernet parents, Everest and Vienna de la Cabernet, who are on a humanitarian mission to assist some displaced islanders.
However, seeking to assist the islanders in his own manner, Charlemagne de la Cabernet focuses on assisting an islander child that has come down with a mysterious illness. Charlemagne’s efforts soon find himself face-to-face with a mysterious Witch Doctor he believes to be responsible for the kidnapping of children on the island, or so it initially seems. Both Diana and Tristan assist Charlemagne in his endeavor to unmask the evil that lurks within this island paradise.
Will Charlemagne and the couple be able to unmask the evil on the island? The Witch Doctor? Is this island truly a paradise, or a façade of one? Are the evildoers the only ones that are wearing masks…?
2020-04-01 – Brave New World & Island by Aldous Huxley has been released as part of the Whitewolf Classic collection. Originally released in 1932 and 1962 respectively, the Whitewolf Classic edition contains the original English text.*
Description: Bernard Marx is an alienated member of the upper-class in a futuristic World State around 2540 AD (632 AF, “After Ford”), a seemingly perfect society where humans are mass-produced in hatcheries, genetically engineered into rigid castes, and are conditioned from “birth” to embrace consumerism, instant gratification, and shallow happiness. Bernard decides to take a vacation to a “Savage Reservation” in New Mexico where he meets a “savage” named John and decides to return with him to the “brave new world.” John’s arrival in the utopian world leads to a clash of natural human values and the soulless comfort of a world that has sacrificed freedom and meaning for superficial pleasures.
Brave New World is a chilling warning about the adaption of technology in a consumerist and utilitarian world. Island explores how humanity might achieve genuine well-being through awareness, compassion, and balanced living.
The Whitewolf Classic of both these works include the original English text released in 1932 and 1962 respectively, as well as the essay “Brave New World Revisted” by Aldous Huxley.
2020-02-16 – The Fourth Level – Book 12 – Dragon’s Den by Nicholas Huntley has officially released.
Description: When Charlemagne de la Cabernet receives word that his adversary, Audric Zimmerman, is about to close in on the Scepter of Alexander the Great somewhere in East Asian, he is recruited to assist in its capture before him by international authorities. Despite the rise of the coronavirus pandemic, Charlemagne is given clearance to travel to Japan as a diplomat for the United Nations so that he can search for this final artefact.
However, during an attempt to decrypt the location of the scepter, Diana Cambridge is kidnapped by a band of shadowy figures who take her to a remote village. There, the Japanese clan, who had mistaken her for foe, decide to train her in the ways of the female warrior so that she can defend herself and those she loves when the time comes. In this trial, Diana disciplines and trains in their old ways, but not without confronting her inner demon that lurks within and holds her back. Meanwhile, Tristan Merrick finds himself in a similar position, all while Charlemagne desperately finds the scepter, or more importantly, the orb of time, before Zimmerman.
Will Diana be able to confront the demon that lurks within her? Will Charlemagne be able to find the orb of time before Zimmerman? What lies in store for Diana and Tristan in the arts that await to transform them, and who will they become afterwards? Will they ever be the same again…?
2020-01-01 – The Odyssey by Homer has been released as part of the Whitewolf Classic collection. The original text of this epic poem is known to have existed around 500 BC, but was not translated into English until around 1500 AD, two thousand years later. The Whitewolf Classic edition is a revision of the Samuel Butler version released in the late 19th century.
Description: At the conclusion of the ten-year Trojan War, Odysseus embarks on a journey to return home to his wife and son. He faces divine wrath, especially from Poseidon, including monstrous foes such as cyclops, sirens, and storms. Meanwhile, back in Ithaca, his faithful wife Penelope cleverly fends off insistent suitors, while his son Telemachus grows into manhood, searching for news about his father.
The Odyssey is a rich classical text that explores ancient Hellenic themes, such as the Greek concept of homecoming (nostos), intelligence (metis), hospitality (xenia), and complex relationships between humans and the divine – celebrating the human spirit’s resilience against impossible odds.
2019-11-16 – The Fourth Level – Book 11 – Advent by Nicholas Huntley has officially released.
Description: In the small town of Allabrese, all have come together to the Curtia Dawson Memorial Library where Charlemagne de la Cabernet is hosting a Halloween party to raise money to help keep Cabernet Technologies in business and give life to the brilliant innovations within. However, on this same night, Charlemagne is approached by a mysterious man who has confidential information and bears a warning to Charlemagne on a devastating technology in development by Zimmerman Corporation that could threaten his family and townsfolk.
Several days later, a mysterious and widespread illness begins to infect the town, which inevitably results in a quarantine enforced by the national army. Suspicious and seeking to aid his townsfolk, Charlemagne investigates the illness that has plagued the town and entrapped his friends in a zone where he believes death awaits them, especially as he sees that this is no mere quarantine effort, but a military occupation with sinister purposes related to this secret, deadly technology. What has taken hold of the townspeople of Allabrese?
What has caused this tragedy to overcome the beloved town of Allabrese? Is it within the townsfolk to allow themselves to be occupied, or will they find the will to rise up…?
