The Adventures of Quaraun The Insane
Volume 11 of 130
The Summoner of Darkness
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About The Novel:

Volume 11: The Summoner of Darkness

Back from the dead, once again with Unicorn in tow, and now with the Thullid priest ZooLock his prisoner shackled in chains, Quaraun is headed back to The Screaming Unicorn Tavern in Old Orchard Beach, but finds himself cursed with endless bad luck, as one thing after another drops out of the sky in his path.

Highwaymen, hellhounds, a turtle as big as a house, fire breathing butterflies, a train station from the 20th century, and a strange glow-in-the-dark demonic wizard with pockets full of sheep, who sits in a red armchair in poppy field in the 1400s reading 1980s spellbooks books by Gary Gaygax.

Quaraun goes head to head against The Gremlin, a time traveling wizard from the future who refuses to allow the Pink Necromancer back into Old Orchard Beach, where since his last visit, an evil Sorcerer named HellBorne has erected a giant cursed lighthouse known as The Black Tower.

ZooLock however has other plans, and while 4 rival wizards tear up the town in a wizard's duel, the Squid Headed Aliens From Neptune's Moon and their armies of JellyFish worshiping cultists arrive in town to preform a ritual that will unleash an Elder Brain Chaos Demon, known as The Sacred Pink JellyFish on the world. Too bad they didn't know she was already in town.

NOTE: Most of this novel will be available as free to read online.

List Of Sample Chapters
Available To Read Online:

• Introducing GhoulSpawn

• The Cultists and The Coming of The Darkness

• EelKat and The Kats of Planet Ptarmagin

• The Moon Elves of Ivujivik

• A Letter To Home

• HellBorne and The Missing Sacrificial Sheep

• The Return of ZooLock

• Highwaymen 

• Another Letter To Home

• Hellhounds

• The Half-Elf Thief With Pockets Full of Sheep

• The Gremlin's Warning

• "I am Very Concerned About Blueberries." - Back At The Blueberry Plains of The Screaming Unicorn Inn

• A Field of Fire Breathing Butterflies

• A Field of Poppies On The Road To Witch Pond

• The Road To Witch Pond (Part 2)

• The Road To Witch Pond (Part 3)

• Santa's Dead Floating Body

• The Pumpkins Are Following Us

• A Third Letter To Home

• The Abandoned Cathedral

• A Piano Fell From The Sky

• Worms!

• The Glow-In-The-Dark Sun Elf Who Fell From The Sky

• GhoulSpawn and Quaraun Trapped With A Phooka

• Night Terrors

• "Him not hurt. Him just cry baby."

• The Pregnant JellyFish

• The Banshee Sisters: Bean-Nighe and Ben-Neeyah In the Swamp of Death

• A Fourth Letter To Home - The Masochistic Elf With Stockholm Syndrome

• Stay Wid Us Too Lang, Ya Go Crazy Wid Us

• The Black Lighthouse

• Strange Nightmares

• Pumpkins Again

• The River Boat Man-Woman

• The Strange Village or I Love The Smell Of Decomposing Bodies In The Morning

• Food Fight In a Funeral Home

• The Golden Rooster

• Shrimp Dinners 

• Meeting Mallac

• A Serial Killer at Large

• The Summoner of Darkness

• Corsets, Elves, and Undead Faeries.

• Visiting The Scene of Murder #1 With An UnGelded Stallion

• I Never Wanted To Be a Wizard

• Sheep Again

• The Sixth Letter To Home

• The Fetishes of Phookas

• Back At The Tavern and Still No Shrimp

• A Tavern Scene Part 1 - "Ever heard of a chastity cage?"

• A Tavern Scene Part 2 - Drunk Elves, Shrimp Dinners, and Dungeon Masters From The Future

• A Tavern Scene Part 3 - Quaraun, Unicorn, GhoulSpawn, - Time Travel, Chastity Cages, and Whores

• He Kills People With Candy (The 7th Letter To Home)

• ZooLock Again - Off To Talk to Merchants About Murder #2

• Three Days, Three Murders, & Still No Shrimp Dinners

• Tumbling Down Stairs With Slutty Elves and Angry Liches

• The Missing Children Bean-Nighe and Ben-Neeyah Warned Of

• Explosions From The Sea

• A Hurricane Hits The Lighthouse

• The Blind Phooka

• You Always See The Pony?

• Murder #4 & Questions About The Black Tower

• Pumpkins, Blueberries, and Shrimp

• The Thullids Arrive In Town

• Investigating Murder #5

• ZooLock's Thullid Cultists

• Where Are You Hiding That Horse?

• Murder #6 - The Red Herring Murder

• Murder #6 - The Real Murder

• The First Try At Entering Black Tower

• The Black Tower's Garden of Death

• The Hostess Twinkie Aisle of Biddeford Wal-Mart

• Elves In Chandeliers

• Aardsvorkus Muddsburge & The Crystal cave of Time and Necromancy

• The Train Station

• Back At The Tavern

• Mallac and The Murder Weapon

• Mallac And The Shambling Dead - No Spell Is Ever without A Price

• Why is there an elephant in my bed?

• "Kcuf! Kcuf! Kcuf! Kcuf! Kcuf! Kcid a kcus! Kcuf!"

• Another Night, Another Murder (Murder #7)

• HellBorne The Evil, Lord of Black Tower

• Elwin

• "My first thought was, where would a three year old put your bag of holding?"

• The Oozing Plate Of Sugar Cookies Bludgeoned By The Courageous Alien Being Chased By A Bloodthirsty Crazed Celebrity Chef

• The Map of The Town

• Elwin and The Town Full of Dead Children

• Glimmer Monks wear nothing underneath their robes...

• Can Unicorns conceal themselves amongst normal horses and pick them off in secret?

• The Thullids Are Gathering Around The Golden Rooster

• A Bag Full of Pickled Jellyfish

• Back At Black Tower

• The Bottomless Pit

• I'm HellBorne The Evil, Lord of Black Tower, of The Castle of Blood and Death

• Necromancers Don't Wear Pink

• BoomFuzzy's Evil Army of Blood Thirsty Marshmallow Tutti-Frutti Fuzzy Wuzzy Fluffy Bunnies

• The Cult of The Sacred Pink JellyFish

• The Pregnant Jellyfish and The Murdered Half-Elf

• The Wrath of The Pink Necromancer

• Darkness Falls

• Back To Black Tower Again

• The Ptarmagin Kats of Space Dock 13

• On Board The VISION-D8

• Elwin Again

(The End?)

Did You Know?

The Summoner of Darkness is the first time The Gremlin, EelKat, Lyxiana, Bela, and Spriggan (all characters from the original 1978 edition of Friends Are Forever, Volume 1 of The Twighlight Manor Series) make appearances in The Quaraun series.

While most of the Quaraun series is written with Quaraun as the only point of view character, EelKat, the primary point of view character of the Twighlight Manor series, alternates with Quaraun as a point of view character in Summoner of Darkness.

The novel tells 2 stories side by side, with all odd numbered chapters telling Quaraun's version of the story in the 1400s, and all even numbered chapters being written as letters from EelKat in the 1980s to her sister Lynxian.

EelKat is a 4th wall meta breaking narrator.

Who Is GhoulSpawn?

This is the first time GhoulSpawn appears using the name GhoulSpawn. In previous volumes he was using the name Glinta instead.

In the Twighlight Manor series he is known as The Gremlin.

Quaraun's teenaged lover GhoulSpawn is a "natural born" Sorcerer. He is a half-Elf/half Demon. 

GhoulSpawn's father was an evil Demon who commanded an army of Ghouls. Because of this, he was known simply as "The Ghoul". 

GhoulSpawn's mother was a Sun Elf whom had fallen in love with The Ghoul, but was forbidden by her family to have contact with him. She in turn ran away with her Demon lover, thus causing a war between Elves and Demons.

The Sun Elves tell a story of how their Princess was kidnapped and raped by the Ghoul, thus she gave birth to the Spawn of the Ghoul. Though his mother named him Glinta, she died while he was still very young, and his Elven kin, took to calling him GhoulSpawn as a way to brand him not one of them.

GhoulSpawn is an interdimensional time traveller, because he is unable to remain in any one time, place or dimension long, because he was born in the Hell Dimension, which exists outside of the realm of time and space as we know it. The Ghoul tried to escape the Sun Elves by going to the distant future (1974) and leaving his half-Elf son and the boy's mother there to live among a band of LSD addicted hippie Humans whom drove a 1974 AMC Gremlin.

The Sun-Elves eventually found their missing she-Elf and brought her back to the 1400s where she belonged, but she refused to leave her half-Demon son behind.

After his mother's death, GhoulSpawn was made a servant to his High Elf step-father and full blooded Elf step siblings, all of whom abused him and treated him like a slave. He grew up constantly being told he, because he was only a half-Elf, was unloved and unwanted and should have been killed at birth, resulting in the very low self esteem he has.

Neither Demons nor half-Elves are considered welcomed members of society, both being forced to live in small tribal groups on the outskirts of civilization. Both are often stoned to death or hung if they dare set foot in a city.

GhoulSpawn being both a Demon and a half-Elf is doubly mistreated by the majority of the world's population. He takes to travelling with Quaraun because Quaraun simply accepts GhoulSpawn as he is and is not bothered by being seen in the company of either a Demon or a half-Elf.

There are several instances when people try to bully GhoulSpawn and Quaraun (a high ranking full-blooded aristocratic High Elf) is quick to stand up for him, protecting and defending the half-Elf. Quaraun is often classified by other Elves as "insane" simply because he is willing to be friends with a half-Elf.

GhoulSpawn has a speech impediment which lessens when he is relaxed and grows worse the more nervous or frightened he becomes.

Around calm laid back characters like Quaraun, GhoulSpawn speaks without difficulty. However around domineering, headstrong, or bullying characters such as Unicorn or HellBorne, GhoulSpawn develops a stutter, making it difficult for him the get to the end of a sentence. 

Because he is a Demon, GhoulSpawn was born with natural magical abilities, making him a rare "natural born wizard" or sorcerer.

GhoulSpawn is typical of a Sorcerer in the Quaraun series, in that he has Demon blood, was thus born with a Demon's natural ability to cast magic on some levels, has taking to self-teaching himself how to control the magic powers he was born with, is outcast from society because of his link to Demons, and is generally not well thought of, even though he is not in any way evil, and is in fact the only part of the cast who could be considered anything close to being a Hero.

Being a time traveller, there are times when Quaraun encounteres both GhoulSpawn and his future counterpart Gremlin in the same novel.

This is the first novel in the series to feature multiple versions of GhoulSpawn in a single novel.

GhoulSpawn remains one of the most hated and most loved characters in the series. People who dislike him, absolutely despise him and have gone so far as to request I remove his character from the series entirely. While people who love him, often cite him as their favourite character and often request I add him into more stories more often.

For the people who don't like him, I'm sorry, but he remains one of my favourite characters of the series and he's not going anywhere.

For the people who want to see more of him: there are plans to make changes to several stories in the series to include him in the future editions, more often.

You can find out more about GhoulSpawn here:

Did You Know:
Summoner of Darkness
was written on location at the real Witch Pond?

Meet The Real Witch Hole Pond:

If You Want To Visit Witch Hole Pond For Yourself, Here Are The Directions To It: 
(Address is: Witch Hole Pond, Carriage Road, Mt. Desert Island, Acadia National Park, Bar Harbour, Maine)

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This novel was originally written in: 2014 - 2016