The Werewolf of Bamberg (UK Edition) (A Hangman's Daughter Tale Book 5) by Oliver Pötzsch

Author:Oliver Pötzsch [Pötzsch, Oliver]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: AmazonCrossing
Published: 2015-10-12T23:00:00+00:00

Tormented by violent chills, the Bamberg suffragan bishop Sebastian Harsee lay in his bed and cursed the devil and all the arch-demons for sending this fever at such an unfavourable time.

The fever had come on a few days before, and since then Harsee had felt dizzy and exhausted. His headaches were so severe it felt like his brain was riddled with large needles, and he had completely lost his appetite. Until now, the illness could be relieved with infusions of hot linden-blossom tea and iron self-discipline, but that morning something odd had happened. As Harsee was preparing to drink the freshly brewed tea, a horrible aversion had come over him. He forced himself to drink it, immediately threw it up again, and from that moment on his aversion to every liquid just increased. He should have just stayed in bed. Then he learned of the death of Gotzendörf’s widow and, bathed in sweat, had attended the meeting of the city council and later the Inquisition Committee. With his last ounce of strength, he’d finally dragged himself back to his room adjacent to St. Martin’s Church, and since then he had lain in bed shivering, with chattering teeth.

Sebastian Harsee clenched his fist and pounded the bedpost so hard that the pain at least made him forget his headache for a moment. He couldn’t get sick now, not when everything was going his way. For half his life, he’d waited for this werewolf. The devil had finally come to Bamberg spreading fear, and fear was the glue that held this city together. Finally his flock had gathered around their shepherd, finally they turned to the Lord God in their despair. With the help of this werewolf, Harsee would succeed in doing what had been denied to him and his followers almost forty years ago: to turn Bamberg into a City of God. And now, this accursed illness had confined him to his bed.

In addition, the bishop of Würzburg, Johann Philipp von Schönborn, an elector of the Empire in person, had announced his arrival the next evening. Together with the Bamberg bishop, Schönborn would be attending this ridiculous competition between the two theatre groups that His Stupid Excellency had naively thought up in order to impress his powerful neighbour.

Harsee shook his head angrily as a new wave of pain racked his body. It was finally time for him to take the reins of leadership firmly in hand in this city. His bishop was so enamoured of his menagerie—his monkeys, bears, peacocks and all his other useless pastimes—that it was quite possible he would soon retire to his estate in the country and turn over the rule to the cathedral chapter. And Harsee had already softened up the cathedral chapter, gaining their trust. Finally, he, Sebastian Harsee, the most devout servant in the vineyard of the Lord, would be the man of the future—a powerful adversary of the depraved worldliness spilling over from the neighbouring bishopric of Würzburg.

Harsee and the Würzburg bishop Schönborn had for a long time shared a deep antipathy for each other.

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