A Novel · Literary Historical Fabulism
TheHammerof the Feline
An unauthorized account of the witch-hunter who fell for a witch, her nine cats, and a potted herb garden he could not quite bring himself to condemn.
The Premise
“Heinrich Kramer has spent forty years dressing up a fear of cats as theology. Then, at the Lower Gate of Oberwesel, he watches a cast-iron soup pot rise three inches off a hearth — the first genuine, impossible, harmless thing he has ever seen — and it undoes him.”
From a borrowed room in Kroměříž, the winter of 1505, the story unspools backward across the Rhine Valley.
What Awaits Between the Leaves
Three Turns of the Page
A Bestseller, Rewritten
The Malleus, Undone
Forty years of doctrine, twenty-nine editions of a witch-hunter's manual — and one floating iron pot that refuses to fit the page.
An Unlikely Love
The Midwife of the Lower Gate
Walburga keeps an herb garden and nine cats, cures a lifetime of heartburn with chamomile, and corrects Kramer's prose in the moonlight.
One Foggy Rhine Night
The Crossing Under Moonlight
Nine cats in six baskets, rowed across an international river by the Hammer of Witches himself — smuggling contraband felines toward the far bank.
34,000
Words
22
Chapters
9
Cats
1
Iron Pot
A twenty-pound cat falls asleep in the lap of the man who wrote that all cats are the Devil's vehicle. In the moonlit garden, Kramer confesses the whole fraud, and Walburga corrects his prose.
Chapter Fourteen · Night at the Herb Garden
Read the Manuscript That Refuses the Fire
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