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2024
March
Read the Latest from Trollheim (https://www.salemhousepress.com/202.../Trollheim/Latest.html)
Herding Cats
When you are a Troll, you don't have to worry about mice infesting your house; you worry about cats sneaking through cat holes. A story on the many perspectives and points of view of life.
Everyone loves Troll stories, especially when they are not about Russian kids in their bedrooms pulling your chain on social media. Here is a story about how a Troll saved one person's farm with some simple advice.
Skalle
Bjorn and the Jersey Devil
So there are many misconceptions about who and what the Jersey Devil is. Was he a marketing scheme of Benjamin Franklin or a real cryptid walking among the pine trees?
The Troll and the Bear
(Story from Trolls: a Compendium)
In Højegaard, the place with the high yard, Denmark, in the old days no one could stay over Christmas Eve. All the folk had to go down to the old farm in Rønnebæk, which has long been given up, and stay there till Christmas morning, for every Christmas Eve there came an ugly Troll from Dragehøi (dragon hay), with a sackful of toads on his back, which he roasted at the fire in the sitting room, and ate one after another; but if anyone ventured to stay there over night, he might be prepared to be torn in pieces by the Troll.
One time, just as the folk were leaving the farm, there came a woodcutter who went about with his bear, Bjarki. They told him why they had to leave, but the woodcutter asked to be allowed to stay overnight, and the bear insisted.
Towards evening, the Troll sat down by the fire and toasted one toad after the other.
“Toad,” said the man.
The Troll took a roasted toad and held it out to the bear, saying, “Toad shall have a toad,” but Bjarki the bear growled and began to rise.
“Yes,” said the man to the Troll, “just you take care and not make him angry, or he’ll tear you in pieces.”
The Troll looked quite frightened and asked, “Have you any more like him?”
“Yes,” said the man, “this one has five young ones, which are lying outside on the baking oven.”
The Troll made haste to tie up the toads he had left in the sack, threw them on his back, and went out the door in a hurry.
The next morning, when the people came home, the woodcutter was lying all right in the bed and the bear was beside the fire, both quite comfortable. When the man told them how he had gotten on, they were very glad and bade him come again next Christmas Eve, which he did, but the Troll did not come and has never shown himself there since.
Our favorite books from David Larkin's series for ABRAMS Books.
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Do Trolls really do this to gnomes, as told in the ABRAMS Books Gnome series? Read Trolls: A Compendium to find out this and many more interesting facts...
February
Some of My Favorite ABRAMS Books
Civilized Dragons...Coming Soon
Imagine dragons of various species walking about in a forgotten time where they towered over the buildings of man as wind powered hovercraft float under their noses.
When do Pigs Fly? At least a long, long, time ago...
Civilized Dragons...Coming Soon
Imagine a world where not all dragons have bat wings but are feathered and moth- or butterfly-shaped. A time when they towered over skyscrapers that had sunk into the sand before the pyramids were built.
How about a Bobcat-Dragon?
Civilized Dragons...Coming Soon
Do all dragons have bat wings? Only in Dungeons & Dragons. Are there cities older than Göbekli Tepe? How long ago did the deserts of Africa and the Middle East swallow them?
A new story from Trollheim!
Skyscrapers, Dragons, Oh My!
Bears and Trolls
Civilized Dragons...Coming Soon
As civilizations advance, they begin to make items biodegradable. We know man made rope 50,000 years ago, but we only have examples that survive from 5,000 years ago. What else has been buried under the sands of time? The various lineages of humanity stretch back 4 million years. What is more foolish to believe? That civilization only existed for the last 5,000 years, or that multiple civilizations grew and collapsed for the other 3,905,000 years. Did man sit in trees scratching his back for almost 4,000,000 years and then decide to make the computer at the last minute?
What did the dragons look like back in the day?
Trolls in the Studio
Among the shelves of the studio are various Trolls. There are wooden ones made by Henning such as the Sweetum in the first picture. Also there are Dam and Norfins by Dam released in the 80s. The original ones were made in teh 60s by Thams Dam. There are vintage Disney Seven Dwarves and a candle Troll. Plus some souveiner Viking Trolls made ou of fur and wood.Other Trolls out of view were made by Ken Arensbak with the acorns for hats and Chestnuts for noses (Mice like eating them) and Nyforms.
What Trolls are around your house?
Have you read the latest from Trollheim?
Nothing Changes
This week we have a confused beaver, a tricky serpent, a stubborn dung beetle, and a pesky buzzard, and Bjorn finds Karl and Gramps swallowed by a whale. All Bjorn wanted was to make his wife a trellis for some roses, but he got more than he sought.
Civilized Dragons...Coming Soon
The process of this illustration. Dragons from a time when daisies were taller than ancient skyscrappers.
Civilized Dragons...Coming soon
Dam Trolls!
2023
December
25th~
Fiction/ Illustrated Fantasy/ Mythology / Scandinavian Myth/ Norse Sagas / Scandinavian Folk Lore / Coffee Table Book
Paperback: $45 | Hardcover: $65 | PDF eBook $5
Following the Harry N. Abrams, Inc. tradition of the series that created Brian Froud's and Alan Lee's Faeries and Gnomes by Wil Huygen and Rien Poortvliet, we present you with what would have been the next book in the series: Trolls: A Compendium. Trolls—do you think you know what they are? Could you be wrong?
Trolls within Scandinavian lore, myth, saga, fantasy, and folktales are actually anything magical within our northern neighbor's culture. Richly illustrated in this volume are the tales of faeries, dwarves, nissen, huldras, gods, Jotuns, draugar, ghosts, and more. Also, this book introduces our readers to the world of Trollheim, populated by Nattrolls that escaped the 17th-century Swedish colony within the New Jersey Pine Barrens. Narrated by Christopher Jonathan Hulton, who lives in the Thousand Acre Woods just after the Civil War, their tales are filled with Native American lore and tales of their neighbor, the Jersey Devil.
Paperback: $45.00
Hardcover: $65.00
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2021
December
5th~
Latest story is out! They Live, They Live... brings everyone's favorite immortal, Henry Sinclair, back to England on the eve of Roger Cromwell's rise. Henry travels with Roger Conant to regain the governorship of Salem and MA and find Parliament absent. They meet Roger Williams in London and are welcomed back to his family's estate. There they meet the young Cromwell and evil from outer space.
1st~
New website! come back on the first to check out our new improved site. You want a new point of purchase item, check out our Flip & Scan eBook cards which bring books out of the bookstore and delivers them to anywhere you can buy a Coke! Also we are looking for new authors of books, short story writers fro Arkham: Tales from the Flipside, and published works to join our new eBook distribution network within brick and mortar stores!
November
15~
Latest story is out! Turning Point brings everyone's favorite immortal, Henry Sinclair, sailing with the son of America's first millionaire through the Mediterranean racing Napoleon to a lost city buried under the sands of Egypt looking for an ancient evil. A story to really sink your teeth into...
2020
May 26th~
New Installment of Battle at Cedar Bridge Tavern. The latest story in The Sinclair Narratives.
Everyone's favorite immortal, Henry Sinclair, has dressed up withe Benjamin Franklin as Mummers to sneak into Cedar Bridge Tavern to steal back the Ark of the Covenant right before the last battle of the Revolutionary War. Click here to read this great installment!
May 5th~
Robert Irvine's new show Kitchen Expedition is airing now on The Food Network on Thursdays at 10pm. Chris Dowgin the author of Salem Secret Underground: The History of the Tunnels in the City and Sub Rosa takes Robert and his film crew into the depths of the smuggling tunnels in Salem MA showing them how they smuggled cinnamon into the country without paying duties.
Inside Tunnel leaving Rockefellas to Daniel Low's warehouse.
May 5th~
The latest Installment of Battle at Cedar Bridge Tavern
Henry as British General Howe Throws the War for the Americans and Benjamin Franklin is Afraid of the Jersey Devil
Everyone's favorite immortal, Henry Sinclair, has been posing as the dead General William Howe that was in command of the British forces in America. In this installment, we will learn how a few years ago how Howe threw the war for the Americans and was forced to hide in the Pine Barrens of NJ. Also, we learn more about his friendship with Benjamin Franklin and Franklin's love of the Ark of the Covenant and his personal hatred of the Jersey Devil. Most important of all, we learn how the Ark was stolen from Howe and why...
Come back every Tuesday for another installment of Battle at Cedar Bridge Tavern:
Click here to read the latest in this series!
April
April 28~
Today we start a new story, Battle at Cedar Bridge Tavern. Henry, everyone's favorite immortal, finds himself as General William Howe at the last battle of the Revolutionary War in the New Jersey Pine Barrens trying to steal back the Ark of the Covenant. So read on to find out how Henry became the British general who lead the war, how he lost the Ark, how he got it back, and what Benjamin Franklin has to do with the Jersey Devil?
Click Here to Read the First Installment!
April 21~
Another installment of Summer Cottage from Hell to beat the boredom of the Virus:
This week Henry and Teddy Roosevelt meet with the Widow Evans and learn about the strange events happening on her property centering on President Taft. Click here to read!
April 1~
Latest Installment from The Sinclair Narratives
Another installment in Summer Cottage from Hell to keep you entertained during this time of containment.
This week Henry, Tesla, Teddy Roosevelt, John Hammond Jr.. (Hammond Castle), and President Taft meet at the Essex Country Club in Manchester. There Telsa and John Hammond Jr.. argue if flesh can be reanimated after death and we meet General George Patton.
Come back every Tuesday for another installment of Summer Cottage from Hell appearing in the Winter Issue of Arkham Tales from the Flipside. A story featuring everyone's favorite immortal, Henry Sinclair, and his third-generation Viking ragtag crew where they are out to solve the mysterious death of the man who rented President Taft his Summer White house for two years. Tesla, Roosevelt, Illuminati, and Lovecraft monsters fill this tale based on real events in Beverly MA.
February
February 18~
Its Christmas, Dearborn Street is all lit up, families are filling up the tunnels traveling to friends and families, but...
There is word that Joseph Knapp Jr. will die mysteriously like his brother within Salem Prison before his New Year's Eve execution. This is the climax of the story where we find out who committed the murder of Captain Joseph White. Will Henry be able to make it in time though the packed tunnels to save Joseph; so he can be properly killed by the State...
Come back every Tuesday to read the latest installment of "Murder on the Common" featuring everyone's favorite immortal, Henry Sinclair, and his reincarnated third-generation Viking ragtag crew.
January
Jan 28~
Yes, we have another installment of Murder on the Common. Every Tuesday we bring you the latest from your favorite immortal, Henry Sinclair, and his reincarnated third-generation Viking ragtag crew. This week it is Thanksgiving and we have Native Americans throwing gourds at us white folk, tales of werewolves, and vampires attacking in Boston. It is another thrill seeking installment this week. So come back every week and see if Henry can solve the murder of Captain White. The most infamous murder of the 19th century that influenced the game Clue and Edgar Allan Poe's Tell-Tale Heart.
The Sinclair Narratives is a regular serial inside the pages of the quarterly Arkham: Tales from the Flipside. To read a sample from our Winter edition click here.
Jan 10~
Check out a free sample of our latest issue of Arkham: Tales from the Flipside featuring a story from Hawthorne, Poe, and Lovecraft for free. Plus sample our new stories by Matt Maguire of Wolverine and Heavy Metal fame, Lisa Deschenes, and Christopher Jon Luke Dowgin. Check out the latest Sinclair Narratives featuring everyone's favorite immortal, Henry Sinclair, and his reincarnated third-generation Viking ragtag crew.
In this story Henry has to solve the murder of the man who died just days after President Taft rented his house as the official White House in Beverly Ma. Many strange things have been happening in Beverly since his arrival centering on the Skull & Bones and Lovecraftian monsters. Come read how Teddy Roosevelt, Rough Rider Keno Crowninshield, Nikola Tesla, and Henry solve this murder.
Also buy Murder on the Common where he must solve the most infamous murder of the 19th century involving the strange murder of Captain Joseph White which involved the highest members of our government. This is the murder that inspired the game Clue and Poe to write the Tell-Tale Heart.
Panel from Matt Maguire's The Wheel from this season's Arkham: Tales from the Flipside.
Jan 7~
This week it is the Day of the Dead and Henry is informed he must use a magical watch that stops time to aid him in returning a magical stone to the dark elves under the hill before it used to free some Lovecraftian monsters into our world.
Come back every Tuesday for a new installment of Murder on the Common featuring everyone's favorite immortal, Henry Sinclair, and his reincarnated third-generation Viking ragtag crew.
September
September 24~
New Installment of Murder on the Common:
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This week we learn about Henry's secret Templar Treasures, including the Holy Grail, he brought to Salem a 100 years before Columbus and the Oak Island myth. Then the dark history of the Winthrops who governed MA and CT that were followers of John Dee the Court Astrologer of Queen Elizabeth. Also, we meet Caroline Plummer (Plummer Home for Boys) and learn the origin of the vampires coming to Salem and the curse.
Come back every Tuesday for the latest installment of the Sinclair Narratives' Murder on the Common featuring Henry Sinclair, everyone's favorite immortal, and his reincarnated ragtag crew of third-generation Vikings.
September 7th~
Listen to Chris Dowgin on What's Happening on WMWM talk about Salem history, tunnels, and his new book Murder on the Common featuring everyone's favorite immortal, Henry Sinclair who sailed to Salem a 100 years before Columbus with his ragtag third generation Viking crew.
August
August 22th~
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August 8th~
Burnt Toast and Oranges is a long Way from Pork Chops and Apple Sauce...
We just signed the Salem Love Psychic, Rev. Barbara Szafranski's first book to Salem House Press. Burnt Toast and Oranges; The Miss Adventures of the Salem Love Psychic is a female take on the Journey of the Hero of how one woman gave up the corporate life and Susie Home Maker to follow her calling to start her quest of enlightenment to help the world through Spirit. Barbara gave up her career as an accountant and her marriage after raising her kids to follow her path to bliss. She opened up her own shop in Salem, MA 30 years ago and has since offered spiritual guidance to tens of thousands of people and lectured around the nation.
The book offers confirmation to those who find themselves on a similar path and provides a road map all can follow who are brave enough. It highlights her quest and the strange events that happened along the way. It is a book that allows someone to not feel so strange anymore to believe in the intangible and follow their gut and Spirit to find their own bliss and help others on their way.
July
July 23rd~
Have you been reading the latest in the Sinclair Narratives? Tales about everyone's favorite immortal, Henry Sinclair,who sailed to Salem a 100 years before Columbus with his rag Tag bunch of 3rd generation Vikings? Today we have released our 5th installment of Sinclair's journey trying to solve the murder of Captain Joseph White in the novel "Murder on the Common". White's murder was the most infamous murder in the nineteenth century and inspired Edgar Allen Poe to write The Tell-Tale Heart and the Parker Brother's to create the game Clue.
So give it a good read now, and come back every Tuesday for another illustrated chapter!!
New installment of Murder on the Common released today. We are up to Chapter Three in which Henry Sinclair finds himself visiting King Mumford's tavern as the Committee of Vigilance breaks in to roust the establishment. Murder on the Common is the latest novel in the Sinclair Narratives released in Arkham: Tales from the Flipside. The Sinclair Narratives follows everyone's favorite immortal Prince Henry Sinclair though time in Salem and the world as he gets into one adventure after the other. Sinclair first came to Salem a 100 years before Columbus with his ragtag crew of third generation of Vikings looking for Vinland with Templar treasures from Roslyn Chapel which he hides in the tunnels of Salem. In the latest story he is trying to solve the murder of Captain Joseph White which was the most infamous murder of the nineteenth century amidst the intervention of the Illuminati, Anti-Masons, vampires, Lovecraftian monsters, and Mormons.
Come back every Tuesday till April 2020 for the 290th Anniversary of the murder when the book will be released.
July 09 ~
Universal Man by Richard Aliberti is still doing strong with its release on Leonardo da' Vinci's 500th Anniversary year. We are also looking forward to finishing up "Don't Invade Russia" by Cory McNeil which will be released around November. It is the tale of an alternative Universe where Stalingrad falls through time to nineteenth century to start the Steel Empire which begins to loom over Europe. Will the powers that be convince Jane Wilkes Booth to kill the emperor? Who knows but it is a great comic historical narrative.
June 25~
Welcome back to my blog about balloons, rocket ships, airplanes, space travel, Star Wars, sci-fi, and everything about flying! This time we will look at some of my favorite space pilots. After you read the list, won't you add some of your favorites!
10 of My Favorite Space Jockeys
10. Maya from Space 1999. I think she was the first redhead I fell in love with. I would share my balloons with her any day. Maya was a metamorph who could shape shift into a mean ape like creature when she wanted. In that shape she might even get Chewbacca to fall in love with her. She also piloted my favorite space ship of all time the Eagle.
9. Flash Gordon. In 1936 Buster Crabbe had played him in a serial. I used to watch this every Saturday leading into Tom Baker's Doctor Who. He also flew one of my favorite space age pulp fiction rockets.
8. Hawk from Buck Rogers. He also had one of the coolest ships. I always wanted him to hang out with Hawk from Spencer from Hire. Imagine if Commander Cisco was more like Hawk, Deep Space Nine would of been bad ass.. Excuse me.
7. Pappy Boyington From Ba Ba Black Sheep. Now this man got to fly the coolest real plane ever! What more do you have to say!This is the real guy the show was based on!
6. Starbuck from Battlestar Galatica. Card playing, rogue, playboy. He was what Han Solo could of been. Plus he had a cool ride.
5. Sky Captain from Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. Great humor and great plane. Humor and modesty always wins me over. Even if he had a little thing on the side with Angela Jolie...
4. Mark from Battle of the Planets. Cool bird costume. He stands up a bit above Jason, Jason came off like he wanted to be Han Solo.
3.Nick Ryder from Riptide. You have to be cool to be able to play off the fact you a flying a pink belching helicopter named Mimi.
2.MacReady from The Thing. Granted he only flew the helicopter rarely in The Thing, but he is one of the coolest characters ever. Specially how he tells off the alien in the end before he throws a stick of dynamite at him. (My father is watching me now, I got away with cursing once already...)
1. Captain Kirk from Star Trek. Do I have to say more...
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